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| Congress keeps options open for post-poll alliance | | 'Department not a party' | |
Rustam
JAMMU, June 10: The Congress is a "department instead of a party wherein vested interests have damaged the very vitals". "The Congress is a leeches on our (NC) body, but we do not rule out forming the next government with it if the need so arises". "The Congress is opportunist". "There are power hungry people in the state Congress and they can do anything in lieu of chair even if the same is against the principal stand of the party".
Who made these highly derogatory statements against the Congress and why, where and when? Obviously, it was NC additional general secretary and Farooq Abdullah's younger brother Mustafa Kamaal who made these statements. He lambasted the Congress at Srinagar on Sunday and the reason why he lambasted the Congress was the three statements made by JKPCC chief Saif-ud-Din Soz and former Union Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad a day before to the effect that the coalition lost the Lok Sabha elections because of the NC, that the Congress will not go in for a pre-poll alliance with the NC and that the Congress would form the next government in the state on its own or forge a post-alliance with the PDP. The first statement was made by Soz and the other two statements were made by Azad.
What had provoked the NC leader all the more was the remark of Azad that the Congress had "healthy relations with the PDP" and that it would not mind forming the next government with it if the situation after the assembly elections so warranted. It was this statement that stung the Abdullahs all the more and the result was the unleashing of Mustafa Kamaal, who has been abusing, taunting and insulting the Congress since decades and who declared that the NC will not go for any pre-poll alliance with the Congress for the upcoming assembly elections. It would not be wrong to say that Kamaal takes on the Congress from time to time as per a strategy worked out by the party bosses. Political pundits will, without any hesitation, endorse the Mustafa Kamaal's statement that the Congress can do anything for the sake of power and that it could forge alliance with any political party to remain in power. Indeed, the Congress did so at the national level and in Jammu & Kashmir during the past ten years and forged alliance with parties like the Muslim League. But how could Mustafa Kamaal justify his statement that the NC will form coalition government with the Congress in case the situation so warrants after the assembly election. The NC cannot have double-standards on the issue of pre or post-poll alliance. The Congress is a separate party and it has every right to forge or not to forge pre or post-poll alliance with any political party. Similarly, the NC has also the right to enter into or not to enter into pre-poll or post-poll alliance with the Congress. The track record of the NC is worse. After 1974, the NC did all that it could to grab power and then retain control over it. Sheikh Abdullah compromised his ideology and shared power with the Congress between 1975 and 1977. Farooq Abdullah did the same and Omar Abdullah has been also doing the same since January 2009. The NC should have been grateful to the Congress for the simple reason that it handed over the state power to it for six years despite the fact that the NC didn't have even 33 per cent representation in the legislative assembly. And remember, the ungrateful Abdullahs may persuade the Congress high command for a pre-poll alliance so that it could avert the impending disaster. In fact, there are reports that the Congress and the NC are planning to have "some understanding during the ensuing assembly elections. |
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