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Dual approach to PM Modi's Kashmir visit Congress in complete disarray 10/25/2014 11:54:59 PM Rustam JAMMU, Oct 25: The defeats of the Congress at national level, in Jammu & Kashmir and recently in Maharashtra and Haryana have rattled the Congress leadership both at the national level and state level. At the national level, senior Congress leaders of the stature of P Chidambaram are raising their finger against the Congress high command comprising Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul Gandhi and saying it is possible that the Congress could get a president outside the Gandhi family. In a way they are holding the Gandhi family responsible for the Congress' ignominious defeats. In Jammu & Kashmir, like other states, the local leadership is divided into many groups and sub-groups, with many a minister considering themselves above the party and organization. The plight of the Congress in Jammu & Kashmir is highly pathetic. Its leadership doesn't know what it is saying and doing. It doesn't know the extent of damage they are causing to the party through their knee-jerk reactions and uncalled for statements. Many senior leaders are working at cross-purposes, and even letting down each other. Not just this, they are speaking different languages for the same issue. Take, for example, the contradiction in the Congress as far as the attitude of JKPCC chief Saif-ud-Din Soz, former ideologue of the NC, and his men and Mohammad Aslam Goni, former political advisor to NC president Farooq Abdullah, towards the Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Kashmir on the Diwali day. Goni joined the Congress only a few months ago. It's true that the group of Soz and Goni opposed the Prime Minister's visit. But it is also true that they opposed the visit for different reasons. The Soz group, which organized an unimpressive demonstration in Srinagar to register protest against the Prime Minister's visit to appease Pakistan and separatists like Syed Ali Shah Geelani, who had given call for shutdown, described the visit as a stunt or politically motivated, Aslam Goni criticized the Prime Minister for preferring Kashmir and ignoring Jammu. In fact, the Soz group took the line the Congress high command wanted. Contrarily, Aslam Goni questioned the Prime Minister's visit, saying he should have visited the border areas of Jammu province where the people were living in a dangerous situation created by Pakistan by opening unprovoked firing on the LoC, the IB and even deep inside the Indian territories. "The Prime Minister should visited Jammu instead of Kashmir," he said. So, Goni per se was not opposed to the Prime Minister's visit. His only complaint was that he visited Kashmir. His stand though surprising considering his past record, Goni's love for Jammu was in full display. It appears there is disconnect not only between the Congress leadership and the people but also between the Congress leaders themselves. That's the reason the Congress leaders speak in different voices and become object of ridicule and contempt and the Congress party is becoming more and more irrelevant with each passing day.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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