In Jammu and Kashmir the ruling coalition partners Congress and National Conference today announced that they will go alone in the Assembly polls in the state due later this year.

Addressing a news conference at Jammu today, AICC General Secretary and in-charge of Jammu and Kashmir party Affairs, Ambika Soni said that the party high command has decided to go all alone in the upcoming Assembly Elections in the satate which are likely to be held in the October-November this year.

She said that the votes in Lok Sabha elections were not transferred to each other resulting in the debacle and added that there was not much of help that came from our alliance partner in previous elections.

Mrs. Soni said that after extensive talks with Congress leaders and workers at all levels, the party has come to the conclusion that we are going to fight the forthcoming Assembly elections on our own strength.

Senior Congress leader and Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha, Ghulam Nabi Azad, who was present at the press conference, said the party wants to emerge as the single largest party in the state.

Soon after the press conference by the Congress, Omar Abdullah, who is the Working President of National Conference, took to social media to announce that he had informed Congress President Sonia Gandhi 10 days ago that there will be no pre-poll alliance in the state.

He tweeted that he had conveyed to Mrs Gandhi NC's decision to fight the elections alone.

Omar said that he told her that he would not be making a public announcement because he didn't want it to look opportunistic.

He added that now to attribute the decision to Congess would be wrong and a complete distortion of the facts.

National Conference and Congress entered into a post-poll alliance following a hung verdict in the 2008 Assembly elections in the state. The NC and Congress contested the recent Lok Sabha polls together and were routed by opposition PDP and BJP on all six seats in the state.