Jammu: Payare Lal Sharma, who won the assembly election from Inderwal constituency as independent, is set to rejoin the National Conference that he had left before the election.

Payare Lal Sharma contested against NC as Inderwal seat went to Congress, as per the pre-poll alliance between two parties for Jammu & Kashmir polls.

PL Sharma,  defeated stalwart leader and former minister GM Saroori by a margin of 643 votes.

“Sharma, after his election as MLA, has received call from National Conference high command. The party has invited him to join them,” said party sources.

Before leaving from Kishtwar to join NC in Srinagar, the newly elected MLA addressed his supporters, asking them to maintain unity and work for the welfare of the people in the constituency—(KNO)

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