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NC to contest election on autonomy plank
Abdullahs' party in for drubbing
7/2/2014 11:41:15 PM
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JAMMU, July 2: It is manifestly clear that the NC, which has been ruling the state since January 2009 and which suffered a massive defeat in the Lok Sabha election, has not learned any lesson from the past mistakes and that if it doesn't recognize the ground realities as they exist in J&K, it would suffer yet another humiliating defeat in the Assembly elections due in the next few months. That it has refused to appreciate the reasons which led to its ignominious defeat in May last and that it continues to tread a dangerous path became profoundly clear on Monday and Tuesday, when Mustafa Kamaal and his nephew and J&K CM Omar Abdullah made almost identical statements from two different places
Mustafa Kamaal said in Srinagar that, like in the past, the NC would contest the Assembly election on autonomy plank or seek mandate on the plank of pre-1953 political status and that the party leadership is busy in giving final touches to election manifesto. "The party is yet to fulfill its major commitment, the promises made during the previous elections. The party will stick to its earlier manifesto, despite having failed to implement it in the last five years," he reportedly said on Monday.
As for Omar Abdullah, he reiterated his stand that J&K is a political problem that needed a political solution and batted for Pakistan in his own typical style. Addressing party workers' conventions at Neel, Kastigarh, Razgarh and Ukral in Banihal and Ramban Assembly constituencies, Omar Abdullah, inter-alia, said: "Friendly relations with Pakistan has been the benchmark of the party's political discourse and it would continue to be the centre pillar in the NC's political viewpoint. I told at all forums that the relation between the state and the country is unique and special and we have to strengthen it. Resolution of political issues (read communal issues) of J&K (read in Kashmir) politically (is) important."
So, what Mustafa Kamaal and Omar Abdullah said were not off-the-cuff remarks. They spoke what they believed in, thus leaving none in any doubt that they would strive to the hilt to vitiate the state's political scene in their desperate bid to improve the party's poll prospects. It is obvious that they completely overlooked the political aspirations of Jammu and Ladakh. It was clear that they forgot 2002 and 2008, when their party won only 28 seats in the 87-member House - less than one-third - as against the party's 1996 tally of 57. The time for the NC were not that bad in 2002 and 2008 and still it performed rather poorly. 2014 is not a good year for the NC. Even the Kashmiri Muslims, who used to be its main vote-bank, have abandoned it and turned towards the PDP and separatist organizations like People's League of Sajjad Lone. It appears the Abdullahs have lost their way and that's the reason they have decided to contest election on an issue that just cannot help them restore the lost space. There is no doubt that the NC would become a story of the past in case it continues to behave in the fashion it has behaved so far.
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