Srinagar, Feb. 10 -- Many leaders currently or previously associated with Ghulam Nabi Azad's Democratic Progressive Azad Party (DPAP) are all set to join the Congress, with the talks for the switch in the final stages, party insiders in know the matter said.

They said the prominent leaders likely to switch include former assembly members Gulzar Wani and Amin Bhat, and former ministers Taj Mohi-ud-Din and Ghulam Mohammad Saroori. All four leaders lost in the assembly elections last year. While Wani and Bhat contested on DPAP tickets, Taj Mohi-ud-Din and Saroori contested as Independents.

J&K Congress chief Tariq Hameed Karra said the leaders who left Azad were in touch with them. "We have discussed the issue with the high command and tal...