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| NC-Cong coalition Govt on the verge of collapse | | Elections along with Haryana, Maharashtra? | | Neha
JAMMU, Aug 13: Developments during the past five days show that relations between the NC, which is leading the government, and the Congress, which is part of it, have strained to the extent that they could take an extreme step anytime from now and bring down their government. The situation has reached a point that while one party is refusing to attend the coordination committee meeting, the other is not taking interest in the cabinet meetings or boycotting it.
Even during the cabinet meetings, ministers belonging to the two parties clash and tread different paths. Some of them also enact dramas to mislead their constituencies. Take, for example, the short duration walk out staged by a couple of Jammu-based Congress leaders on the issue of refugees.
It's not that the second or third-rung party leaders are washing dirty linens in public. Very senior party leaders who control their respective parties are involved in a bitter war of words, with each one of them trying his/her level best to prove the other wrong and ascribe the reasons for their parties' failure in the Lok Sabha election to each other. NC additional general secretary Mustafa Kamaal and NC working president and J&K CM Omar Abdullah are accusing the Congress of being dishonest or blaming them for the defeat of the NC candidates in Kashmir.
Likewise, JKPCC chief Saif-ud-Din Soz, the defeated Ghulam Nabi Azad and AICC general secretary and in-charge Ambika Soni are reciprocating in the same manner and holding the NC responsible for the defeat of the Congress candidates in Jammu and Ladakh. Soz is saying there is no coordination within the NC as it didn't attend the meeting of NC-Congress Coordination Committee meeting on Sunday and the NC is refuting the Congress's charge and saying that "it had already informed the State Congress chief that the meeting stands cancelled".
A senior Congress minister is taking a different line; he is saying the cabinet meeting was not possible because Omar Abdullah was busy somewhere else. He is none other than Tah mhi-ud-Din, a fan of Omar Abdullah. Ambika Soni is saying that it was regrettable that the NC "boycotted an important meeting of the coalition coordination committee merely to show its resentment against statements made by some Congress leaders". The fact of the matter is that the leadership of both the parties is accusing each other of "violating coalition dharma" and working at cross purposes. Not just this, the senior Congress leadership is holding the NC responsible for trust-deficit and governance-deficit and the NC is hitting back leveling the same charges against the Congress. All this has brought the working of the government to a grinding halt, thus further adding to the woes of the people.
Reports from New Delhi suggest that the Congress could withdraw support to the NC-led coalition government, as the relations between the two parties have touched a new low and a report from Srinagar said that Omar Abdullah could put in his papers before the Congress withdrew its support to embarrassment. There is a group in the Congress who wants the assembly elections in J&K to be held along with Haryana and Maharashtra and this group also wants the imposition of Governor's rule in the state, as it believes that elections would not be free and fair if Omar Abdullah remains at the helm of affairs. These are not normal political developments; these are abnormal political developments as far as the future of the coalition of opportunists is concerned. Anything can happen anytime. People of the state are fed up with the administration the NC-Congress coalition has handed down; they want this government to go lock, stock and barrel. |
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