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Early Times Report
srinagar, Nov 7: The race for joining the PDP among NC leaders especially those belonging to once strong bastion of the NC, the Ganderbal constituency has not come as a surprise to most people in the State.
After Omar Abdullah decided to leave Ganderbal and try his electoral luck in Beerwah and Sonwar, the NC rank and file has been under tremendous stress in Ganderbal. Instead of giving mandate to somebody who had stood by the NC in the past, Omar Abdullah decided to field Sheikh Ashfaq Jabbar from there.
Ashfaq had fought 2008 elections against Omar in Ganderbal as a Congress candidate.
Those who left the party include former Chief Secretary and sitting MC MLC, Sheikh Ghulam Rasool. Together with him, Farooq Ganderbali, who had fought 2008 elections as a DNP candidate and later joined the NC, also deserted the NC.
Today news reports said Ali Mohammad Bhat, a former Congress MLC from Wakura block of Ganderbal has also decided to join the PDP.
A senior NC leader, G.A. Saloora who stood steadfast behind the NC leadership in the past has already left the party and is now fighting as an independent against the NC.
In Ganderbal the circle for the NC appears to be complete. All senior leaders are leaving the party in the wake of Omar Abdullah's decision to say goodbye to his once family stronghold.
When senior most leaders feel uncomfortable and unsure the party middle and lower rung cannot be blamed for deserting the party. And yet, Ganderbal is a point in question in J&K's politics. If a politician, however, senior and well known ignores his constituency which is basic to his political existence than any national or state level standing.
What is true of Ganderbal is slowly becoming the reality of other Assembly constituencies in the Valley. It was perhaps in this realization that Omar Abdullah said in a recent TV interview that he is the only chief campaigner for the NC during the Assembly elections. Omar also admitted that Modi wave is still not over in J&K and the BJP would get a good proportion of seats in the Assembly elections.
The Congress leaders mostly have done to their Assembly constituencies what is true of others in their alliance party. Visiting the constituency for votes and forgetting the people there for six years has been the mantra in the past. The problem with the contesting leaders and Ministers in J&K this time is that the traditional mantra will work no longer for them. |
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