Congress-led INDIA bloc was formed to reduce the seats of the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) and not for its own alliance partners for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, National Conference vice president Omar Abdullah said on Tuesday. He stressed that his party will not 'surrender' any of the three seats in Kashmir that it won in 2019 elections, reported PTI.

The former chief minister of Jammu & Kashmir state, was reacting to speculations that INDIA bloc has reached an agreement on seat-sharing for the Lok Sabha polls- in now the union territories Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh.