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| NC succeeds in roping in Cong, CPI | | Delaying Assembly polls | | Rustam
JAMMU, Oct 17: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and the owner of "unpopular" National Conference (NC) has succeeded in roping in the Congress and the Communist Party of India (CPI) with a view to making the Election Commission delay the scheduled assembly polls in Jammu & Kashmir so that he could avert the impending defeat. Omar Abdullah was recently in Delhi where he met with Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and discussed with him the situation arising out in the wake of the devastating September floods. During the meeting, he reportedly told the Home Minister that the time was not opportune for holding the assembly elections in the state. It now appears that Omar Abdullah had - apart from meeting with the Union Home Minister - also established contact with certain important leaders of "secular" political parties to enlist their support for his stand on the assembly polls. His efforts seem to have clicked paid dividends. Senior Congress leader Rashid Alvi, who frequently speaks for the Congress party, and national secretary of the CPI, Atul Anjan, have come out openly in support of the beleaguered Omar Abdullah and spoken his language. Both the leaders gave their unstinted support to Omar Abdullah on Thursday and urged the Election Commission to factor in all the developments, including the massive damage the floods caused in the state, before taking a final decision. Atul Anjan even went to the extent of asking the Election Commission to again discuss the whole issue of election with all the political parties. The fact that Rashid Alvi endorsed the viewpoint of Omar Abdullah is a significant development -- significant all the more because he always speaks the language of the Congress high command. In other words, it appears that that the Congress high command has swung solidly behind Omar Abdullah ignoring the fact that senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad and the Congress deputation which met with the visiting team of the Election Commission in Jammu last week had opposed the suggestion that the assembly elections be held on due dates.
The question to be asked is: Will the Election Commission go by what the Congress and the CPI on Thursday said? Reports emanating from New Delhi suggest that the Election Commission has made up its mind to hold the assembly elections on time and if these reports are to believed, and there are reasons to give credence to these reports, then it can be said that the people of Jammu & Kashmir would get a new government on January 5, 2015, when Omar Abdullah would complete six years in office. |
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