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| PDP taunts NC leadership, says NC has merged its identity with Congress | | Kashmir's Election scene | | Neha
JAMMU, Apr 9: What an irony! A party that dominated the Kashmir's political scene for decades has today become an object of ridicule and contempt. The case in point is the National Conference (NC), which has no real support-base in Jammu province and whose area of influence has been shrinking very fast since 2002 in the Kashmir Valley, despite it being highly communal, divisive and pro-separatist. It would be a misnomer to term the NC a state-level party; in fact, it is even difficult to call it a one-region party. The reason is that it won less number of seats and got less number of votes in the Valley in 2008 as compared to the newly-founded People's Democratic Party (PDP). That the NC has further lost its political space in the Valley to its political rivals became evident last October, when NC working president and J&K CM Omar Abdullah raised a pitch for a pre-poll alliance with the Congress, a party his uncle and other NC leaders despised the most. Omar Abdullah had then and thereafter publicly said that a pre-poll alliance with the Congress was a must to avoid defeat and keep the PDP away from the corridors of power. He knew that the NC would lose and lose very badly in case it went to the polls without a pre-poll alliance with the Congress. Notwithstanding the opposition from some influential NC leaders and almost all the Kashmir-based Congress leaders and cadres, Omar Abdullah and his father Farooq
Abdullah succeeded in a forging a pre-poll alliance with the Congress. Courtesy: The Congress high command comprising Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi. On Tuesday, senior PDP leader and party ideologue Muzzaffar Hussain Baig, who is seeking election to the Lok Sabha from Baramulla parliamentary constituency, asserted that "change is in the air and it is now very obvious that people of Jammu & Kashmir want to dump the NC-Congress coalition which has got nothing but miseries to the people". "Every time the NC and the Congress have joined hands in the State the people have paid a heavy price, be it in 1987, when they rigged elections and forced the youth to pick up guns or now when the young people have been forced to pick up stones to raise their voices against the cruelty resorted by the two parties," he said, and added that the "NC has completely abandoned its regional character and have completely merged with the Congress where they feel comfortable to unleash repression upon people". "The NC knows that it can't survive independently anymore as a political party and has, therefore, merged itself with Congress. That is why they are not concerned about the issues of people...The NC has become a huge liability for the people of the state and sooner it goes out of power, the people will feel a sense of relief and achievement". The NC leadership may term the Beig's formulations as a manifestation of his bias against the NC, but the fact of the matter is that what the PDP leader said was well-founded. He only spoke the truth and nothing but truth. He made a very valid point. The election scene in the Valley as it is clearly indicates that the PDP is going very strong in two of the three Lok Sabha constituencies in the Valley (Baramulla and Anantnag) and is very much in the reckoning in the Srinagar Parliamentary constituency from where Farooq Abdullah is seeking reelection. There is the possibility of the PDP making a clean sweep. The taunt of the Beig needs to be viewed in this context. Indeed, the NC has merged its identity with the Congress. Or at best, it could be termed as an extension of the Congress party, which is also destined to face a rout. |
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