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| NC unleashes misinformation campaign against PDP | | False accusation | | Rustam
JAMMU, July 25: The NC, which suffered a massive defeat in the just-held Lok Sabha elections, has, it seems, not learned any lesson from the mistakes it committed during the Lok Sabha election. It lost the election miserably because it had unleashed a misinformation campaign both against the PDP, its main political rival in Kashmir, and the BJP as well as Narendra Modi, then BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate. Later on, Omar Abdullah acknowledged that he and his colleagues committed a grave mistake by converting the whole electoral exercise into secularism vs communalism debate and by not focusing on his Government's "achievements. During the election campaign, Omar Abdullah and his colleagues in Kashmir and Jammu not only made Narendra Modi the main election plank, but also repeatedly accused the PDP and the BJP of conspiring against the NC and the Kashmiris. Their specific charge against the PDP and the BJP was that they worked in unison to cause harm to the Kashmiri cause and jeopardize the NC's electoral interests.
On Thursday, the NC again took recourse to the same approach that had culminated in its humiliating defeat at the hands of the PDP in the Kashmir Valley where it won all the three Lok Sabha seats with a huge margin and also defeated NC president, former four-time Chief Minister and the then incumbent Union Minister Farooq Abdullah. It described the PDP as the "brainchild" of the BJP veteran and former Deputy Prime Minister LK Advani and accused the PDP and the BJP of hatching a conspiracy against the state's special status.
"The two parties (PDP and BJP) have a clandestine agenda of trampling the special identity of Jammu and Kashmir. PDP and BJP are two faces of the same coin and both are playing complimentary and supplementary to each other," the NC leaders said at Banihal in Ramban district (Jammu) at a party function. They also cautioned the people against what they called "sinister designs" of the PDP and the BJP.
The NC leadership has, it appears, gone totally confused. How else should one describe its oft-repeated assertion that the PDP and the BJP are on the same page? The PDP and the BJP are the parties whose political agendas are contradictory and mutually exclusive. The PDP stands for self-rule and the BJP for complete integration.
Of course, it is true that the PDP leadership, unlike the NC, is highly sophisticated and that it has never adopted aggressive attitude towards either the BJP or PM Narendra Modi. At the same time, it has made it loud and clear umpteen times that the PDP has no plan to enter into any kind of understanding with the BJP in case it doesn't win the required number of seats in the coming Assembly elections. In fact, it has stated and restated that it would not mind a coalition with the Congress after the election subject to the condition that the PDP doesn't win 44 seats in the 87-member Assembly.
Only the other day, former Deputy Chief Minister and one of the PDP's ideologues Muzaffar Hussain Beigh overruled the possibility of the PDP entering into any kind of understanding with the BJP after the elections and instead, said that the PDP would not mind entering into post-poll alliance with the Congress, if needed. Why is the NC leadership raking up issues which are simply irrelevant or which are non-existent? It is not understandable. The manner in which the NC leadership has been conducting itself after the Lok Sabha defeat only indicates its frustration and desperation. Negative politics will not benefit the NC. There should be no doubt about it. |
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