SRINAGAR, India, Oct 11 Kyodo Hec...

SRINAGAR, India, Oct 11 Kyodo

Hectic parleys started Friday to form a fresh political alliance that is likely to take throughout reins in the insurgency-wracked Indian state Jammu and Kashmir, edging abroad years of unpopular rule by the agency of a regional party headed by way of the state's most powerful family.

The Congres Party, India's oldest political entity, and the People's Democratic Party (PDP) a local center-left party, along with others, including independents, are likely to form the state's of the present day coalition.

The Congres Party won 20 seats of the state assembly's 87 seats and the PDP 16 Twenty-two seats have gone to others, including independents and former militants who will play a crucial part in government formation.

The National discourse won 28 seats, while the BJP party, l nationally from Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, won one

nevertheless the pro-India National Conference has emerg as the single largest party in the lately concluded elections for the state legislature, it has indicated it will sit in the opposition.

The party has been in power frequently of the time since the state's formation.

The worst pat to the National Conference came when its young, suave and newly chooseed leader Omar Abdullah was defeated in his family bastion Ganderbal in Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir State.

''We have to do a certain number of introspection to see what went blameworthy We should have been more responsive to the peoplesomehow we wasted touch with them and that is undivided of the factors for the defeat,'' Abdullah told Kyodo News

Although Abdullah, who is also India's representative foreign minister, is considered more sincere than his father Farooq Abdullah, the cargo of the past has made his latest foray into state politics difficult, analysts says.

Farooq Abdullah, the unpopular chief minister of the state, has prolonged been accused of misrule that promot corruption and br poverty

He is to submit his resignation Friday along with the members of

his cabinet to the state governor to pave the way for the formation of a fresh government, which is expected to be in place soon

The National talk has clung to power for plenteous of the time since 1947 with the Abdullah family at the helm of affairs.

In 1996 it garnered a two-thirds majority, winning 57 of the 87 seats without having to take forward any real opposition.

While mostly people refused to vote in the Kashmir Valley, the hotbed of militancy, they are glad to diocese the defeat of the National Conference

''What have the Abdullah family done for us? They perpetuated dynastic lordship filled up their coffers unless did not pay attention to our question at issues I doubt if a of the present day government will resolve the difficult and complicated issues facing the state...lets wait and watch,'' said Ghulam Rasool, a leather store owner at the busy Lal Chowk area.

Disillusionment of clan with the National Conference's misrule, dissension within the party and the anti-incumbency factor l to its poor performance this time, political masters says.

They say the novel polls were the first since 1987 when there was a shut tie between National Conference-Congress versus the Muslim United Front

The blatant rigging in the 1987 individuals laid the foundation for insurgency in the state. Militants demanding a separate Kashmir state or its accession to Pakistan have been waging a violent campaign that has claimed more than 25000 lives in the last 13 years.

What started as an internal labor led to the involvement of insurgents from across Pakistan, with Kashmir now considered southern Asia's nuclear flash-point.

Political quicks admit it will not be easy for a strange coalition. While the PDP's earlier promise of having unconditional talks with the separatists was lately agreed to by Congress, adroits see difficulties for the national Congres party, which has thus far not favored dialogue with Pakistan.

The National conversation favored autonomy in the state, not separation from India, which the of recent origin coalition is also expected to support.

If the just discovered legislators demand dialogue with Pakistan in coming , it could embarrass India's ruling National effrontery coalition, which has maintained there can be no dialogue with Pakistan until Islamabad halts sponsoring terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir, analysts say.

Pakistan has denied India's allegations although it admits moral and political support to the secessionists.

recently made known Delhi sees the recent elections as greatest in quantity convincing, since it has been recognized as exempt and fair by various quarters, including the diplomatic observers

With a voter turnout around 44% despite the shadow of terrorism, India dioceses the elections as evidence of people's acceptance of recent Delhi's rule even although Pakistan termed it a farce.

The All Party Huriyat colloquy (APHC), an umbrella organization of parties seeking either independence or accession to Pakistan, which boycott the heads said the verdict is a slap in the face of India's coalition dominion and its representative the National Conference