Srinagar, March 17 -- National Conference vice-president Omar Abdullah Sunday said his party was open to a pre-poll alliance with the Congress for Lok Sabha polls in Jammu and Kashmir if his party were to get to contest the three seats in the Valley.

"We have had a proposal for an alliance but we have made it clear that National Conference will field its candidates on the three Lok Sabha seats in the valley," Abdullah told reporters at a party function in Khanabal in Anantnag district.

The former chief minister said he has conveyed to the Congress his party's willingness to discuss the other three seats - two in Jammu and one in Ladakh region - of the state.

"Let us see what response we get from them," he added.

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