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| Blunders of NC responsible for Cong's defeat: Soz | | Option of alliance with PDP open | | Rustam
JAMMU, July 16: On July 14, senior Congress leader and former Union Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad refused to utter a single word on the performance of the Omar Abdullah-led NC-Congress coalition Government. He simply said that it would be not proper on his part to make any comment on the performance of the state Government, as the Congress was also a part of it. He, however, did say that the workers of his party, like the workers of the NC, were opposed to any kind of pre-poll alliance with the NC, as they believed that a pre-poll alliance with the NC would only benefit the Abdullah party and mar the poll prospects of the Congress. He made this comment while responding to one media query if the Congress was mulling pre-poll alliance with the NC. His observations, however, did suggest that the NC and the Congress were not happy with each other.
However, it was none other than the JKPCC chief and Member of Rajya Sabha, Saif-ud-Din Soz, who within hours after what Azad said about the nature of relationship between the Congress and the NC put things in perspective. Without mincing words, he said that the Congress lost the Lok Sabha election due to the NC's blunders and that there was the possibility of the Congress entering into alliance with PDP. "The blunders of National Conference made Congress to pay the price in the Lok Sabha elections," he said, adding that he could not overrule the possibility of pre-poll and post-poll alliance with both the NC and the PDP - a suggestion that must have rattled the NC leaders, especially the two Abdullahs, Farooq Abdullah and his son and Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, who had been trying their best to stitch a pre-poll alliance with the Congress. It was not for nothing that Omar Abdullah last week met with AICC president and chairperson of the fast-withering away UPA Sonia Gandhi and former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Reports did suggest that he met with the senior Congress leaders only to persuade them to persuade the local Congress leadership to not oppose his pre-poll suggestion.
Soz clearly and unequivocally held the NC responsible for the humiliating defeat of the Congress. "Due to some blunders of the National Conference, people of Jammu and Kashmir were upset and they rejected both National Conference and Congress," he reportedly said, added that "Omar Abdullah did what he wanted to do and ignored the fact that he was not running a single-party Government. "It was coalition Government that is running the state affairs," he, in fact, said. Soz also stated that "no party can form Government on its own" and asserted that the Congress would be major political player at the time of Government formation.
If one goes by what Soz said, then it can be said that the chances of a pre-poll alliance between the Congress and the NC are diminishing with each passing day and that the talks between some Congress leaders and PDP leaders must be on to reach some kind of understanding. But the main question is: Will the PDP, which has come to believe that it itself is in a position to turn tables on the NC, forge any pre-poll alliance with the Congress? The Congress is being considered across the country a sinking ship. |
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