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| Cong offers olive branch to NC | | Not interested in pulling down Govt: Soz | | Cong always created impediments in Govt functioning: NC
Fazal Khan
SRINAGAR, Aug 20: Congress today offered an olive branch to its coalition partner National Conference by saying that party is not interested in pulling down the Government.
Talking to Early Times the Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee chief Prof Saif-ud-Din Soz said, "I am not interested in pulling down the Government but democratic and political institutions have to function for the Government to run."
He said, "Coordination Committee and Cabinet have to meet for the smooth functioning of the Government."
Interestingly, Prof Soz's statement came two days after he had announced that if the Chief Minister fails to call the Cabinet meet Government would lose its "constitutional validity" and would fall on its own.
Prof Soz said that once the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, who is accompanying his father Dr Farooq Abdullah to London for the treatment, returns would have to call a Cabinet meet (which was last held on July 16) to ensure that Government functions smoothly.
A senior Congress leader told Early Times that party has offered an olive branch to NC following the directions from the party high command. "State Congress leaders want to part ways with NC as soon as possible as NC leaders have pushed them to wall. Chief Minister has made crucial announcements during the past two months without taking Congress into confidence," the leader said, adding, "we want to give NC a last chance that too due to the direct intervention of the party high command. If NC leaders, including the Chief Minister, don't mend their ways we will have no other option other than to pull out."
However, earlier in the day senior National Conference leader and Member Parliament Mohammad Shafi Uri accused Congress of creating hurdles in addressing the mounting unemployment problem in JK.
Shafi while addressing a gathering in Uri said, "Congress right from the day one has been sabotaging the governance on the ground."
"NC had forged an alliance with Congress in 2009 but Congress never behaved as a sincere coalition partner and always created impediments in the way of good governance in JK."
He said that addressing unemployment was among the top priorities of the NC but due to Congress' half hearted approach, party to a large extent didn't succeed in addressing the problem.
Reacting to Shafi Uri's statement a senior Congress leader said, "despite we are making sincere efforts but NC leaders are not leaving any stone unturned to backstab us. He (Shafi Uri) claiming that we've always created impediments in the way of good governance is a blatant lie. NC Ministers were slept during the past five years and have woken up after going into a deep slumber. You can compare the track record of the Congress as well as the NC Ministers you will yourself realize who created impediments for whom." |
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