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The ruling National Conference on Thursday suffered a major jolt before the third phase of the assembly election in Jammu and Kashmir when senior leader Ghulam Rasool Kochak resigned accusing it of having betrayed the people.
A close associate of National Conference founder Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, Kochak said he would float a new outfit, Mahaz National Conference, to work for a peaceful resolution of the Kashmir issue.
Kochak, who spent 10 years in prison along with the Sheikh in the 1950s, said, "The National Conference has failed to come up to the expectations of the people. It has betrayed the people. My heart is weeping to leave a party I had served for sixty years. People have distanced themselves from the party due to its wrong policies and programmes."
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