Congress To Sit Out Of Omar Abdullah Government: Sources

The Congress will not be part of the new Jammu and Kashmir government - despite having allied with Chief Minister-elect Omar Abdullah's National Conference to win last month's election - sources told NDTV Tuesday morning. The Congress will offer support from outside instead.

However, senior leaders from the party - Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi, the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha - will attend the swearing in ceremony.

Mr Abdullah will be sworn in as the new Chief Minister - J&K's first elected head of state in a decade - this morning, after guiding the NC to victory in the September-October election.

The Congress - expected to do well - flopped, winning only six seats; it won 12 in the 2014 election. The NC dominated the alliance, winning 42 of the former state's 90 elected seats.