Srinagar, Oct. 15 -- A day after National Conference (NC) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidates filed nominations for Rajya Sabha seats of J&K, Handwara legislator and Peoples Conference (PC) chairman Sajjad Gani Lone said he will abstain from voting and termed both BJP and NC indistinguishable and blamed CM Omar Abdullah for denying Congress a Rajya Sabha seat at the behest of BJP.

Lone said his party has decided not to vote for any of these parties and blamed NC for denying Congress one RS seat at the behest of the BJP. "I would rather die than vote for the NC. Stop dictating to us who we should vote for and who we should not. You cannot label us," Lone said.

On Monday, Omar Abdullah had said that those who will abstain will...