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| Cong dumped NC or NC dumped Cong | | Divorce between losers or a drama | | Rustam
JAMMU, July 21: The relations between the NC and most of the Congress leaders were never cordial ever since the Congress high command handed over the coveted office of Chief Minister to Omar Abdullah. The style of functioning of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and his uncle Mustafa Kamaal's attacks on the Congress leadership in general and local Congress leadership in particular at regular intervals had further widened the gulf between the two parties. The only persons in the Congress party who did not allow the things to reach a point of no return were the Congress Ministers and the Congress high command and there were reasons for that.
The most important reason was the Ministers' lust for personal power and profit. They were also the ones who in their heart of hearts were against the 2002 power-sharing formula under which the coalition partners were to rule for three years each. What senior Congress leader and Minister Taj Mohi-ud-Din said repeatedly on this issue is still too fresh to be forgotten. He had openly worked against the party and declared that Omar Abdullah would complete six-year term in office. The other was the friendship between Rahul Gandhi and Omar Abdullah. The collapse of the coalition for them meant the loss of opportunity the Congress Ministers got to promote their own vested interests and, hence, they defeated all the moves calculated to end ties with the NC. It would have also meant a setback for the minority Congress-led UPA Government. The Congress needed the support of the NC at the Centre and that was the reason the Congress high command swallowed all insults and allowed Omar Abdullah to rule or misrule in the manner he wanted. It was the NC that dictated terms. The local Congress leadership, barring Congress Ministers, chaffed, but couldn't snap ties with the NC for the reasons stated above.
It was the humiliating defeat of the Congress in the Lok Sabha election that changed the whole attitude of the local Congress leadership towards the NC leadership in general and Omar Abdullah and Mustafa Kamaal in particular. It had become clear even when the election process was on that the Congress would not enter into any pre-poll alliance with the NC and the man who provoked the Congress was none other than Mustafa Kamaal. It was he who accused the Congress of not working for the success for the NC candidates in Kashmir. His specific charge was that the Congress leadership didn't transfer the Congress votes to the NC candidates. Farooq Abdullah and Mehboob Beg did try to control the damage by issuing statements that the Congress did work sincerely, but with no result. The accusations leveled by Mustafa Kamaal against the Congress had its impact on political scene of Kathua-Udhampur-Doda Lok Sabha constituency. There were reports that many a NC voter didn't vote for Ghulam Nabi Azad.
Azad himself acknowledged sometime back that the NC workers didn't vote for the Congress party. This was an indication that the Congress would say no to pre-poll alliance with the NC sooner than later and it finally happened on Sunday, a day after the Congress organized a convention of party workers to assess their mood and understand the circumstances leading to the defeat of the Congress party both in Jammu and Ladakh. AICC general secretary and in-charge J&K Ambika Sonia, JKPCC chief Saif-ud-Din Soz and former Union Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, who announced the decision in a press conference that the Congress would filed candidates in all the 87 Assembly constituencies in the upcoming Assembly elections, left none in any doubt that it was the NC that was responsible for the defeat of the Congress. The NC also responded immediately and tore into the Congress leadership, saying it was improper on the part of the Congress to go public and say no to pre-poll alliance with it. The shocked NC leadership also claimed that it was not the Congress but the NC that rejected the idea of pre-poll alliance with the Congress. NC dumped the Congress or the Congress dumped the NC is not the real issue. The real issue is that the divorce between the losers is not complete. Their coalition and the NC-Congress coalition Government are still intact. It's no wonder that many critics have opined that the strange type of divorce between the two will help neither. They have also opined that the yesterday's decision would further help the BJP and the PDP to improve their poll prospects. |
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