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| This is the worst Congress ever | | It is even worse than it looks | | Bharat Bhushan
Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 13: The state Congress is no good, very bad Congress. It is faced with the constipation of ideas and is dubbed as "do-nothing Congress". Except for NC criticism, it has nothing to offer to the electorate. In his series of public meetings, party veteran Ghulam Nabi Azad has repented on having an alliance with NC. AICC chairperson Sonia Gandhi too has accused NC and Chief Minister Omar Abdullah for their failure to implement UPA schemes in J&K. The top Congress leadership is nowadays busy in NC bashing without realising the fact that it needs to first set its own house in order. Not outsiders but its own ministers have caused it a greater harm as many of them are faced with serious corruption charges and have cases registered against them with the State Accountability Commission. A few clandestinely patronised land mafia and got their share of the proceeds. Those of its candidates, who are boasting of their achievements in public, are actually misleading the voters. They have done nothing for free.
Be it the renovation of Housing Board office or the construction of rooms for the homeless people in Jammu areas, the politicians and the authorities concerned, from top to low, all are faced with serious allegations. You talk to anyone in Jammu and people will give you a long list of the wrongdoings of politicians and sarkari babus.
How can the PCC bigwigs ignore all this while criticising NC for similar reasons? This is infact the time for Congress to do self-introspection, make confessions and correct its ways, besides getting rid of the corrupt and giving chance to the honest who are known more for their integrity.
From phase I of the state polls, NC and Omar continue to be the main target of Congress speakers. If doing the same thing twice and expecting a different result makes you insane, what does doing the same thing again and again and expecting a different result make you?
Well, it makes the existing Congress.
The Congress hate for NC is public now. When it dislikes NC so much, why did it support the latter in government formation? By itself pursuing wrong policies, it can't lay out a vision for J&K. Why it has been shying away from confessing that theirs was actually the "Marriage of Convenience" and they wanted to stay in power after the end of honeymoon with PDP in 2008.
Hating on Deputy Chief Minister Tara Chand and Congress are beloved Jammu tradition nowadays. Chand has earned a bad name for all the wrong reasons. Jammuites feel that he has got more than what he actually deserved with the blessings of Azad. In political circles, he is known more as Azad's "Yes Man". It's a very bad, no good, terrible Congress. It is, in fact, one of the very worst PCCs we have ever had. Here, I'll prove it:
1. Let's start with Tara Chand's PRO Kewal Sharma, who an year or so back levelled allegations of very serious nature against him. Despite all this, he did not take any legal action against him and also did not deny the allegations. He instead took the assistance of his close associates, both from the Congress and the state administration, for a patch up with him. This spoilt the Congress image to a large extent.
2. It proved itself to be unresponsive. The son of a veteran party leader had called up an ARTO and directed him to buy for him a plot of two kanals at Trikuta Nagar which he needed for running his business. The conversation was recorded by the ARTO. The CDs of this conversation were given by the ARTO to a few Congress leaders in the Civil Secretariat but no action was taken. The ARTO later proved to be smarter as he used the recorded conversation for his own advantage.
The party high command had also not responded to the Kewal's allegations against Tara Chand. It also maintained silence over the allegations of corruption against its some other ministers. All this has gone against the party.
3. It also proved itself to be the least-productive Congress. While it is still a part of the coalition government in J&K, it continues to accuse its coalition partner NC of less productivity and every other wrongdoing in the state administration. While saying so, it forgets that it is equally responsible for all these wrongdoings. If, according to Sonia NC did not implement UPA schemes in J&K, Congress is to be equally held responsible for it. Raising such issues during elections does not make any sense. People well understand the motive behind them. One thing is, however, clear that this Congress has a poor record of productivity.
4. The party is hideously unpopular. It set a record of unpopularity in the last Lok Sabha elections when it lost both Jammu seats to BJP. So this Congress is No 1 in being hated by the electorate. Azad, who had done a lot of work in J&K as Union Health Minister, had lost to BJP's Jitendra Singh from Kathua-Udhampur constituency. This despite the fact that Jitendra, as a politician, was no match to him. Azad, who was known as "Mr Lucky" in Congress circles, proved to be unlucky for himself. The Congress leader paid for the unpopularity of its corrupt ministers who have lost their acceptability among the masses. They have done serious damage to the party.
5. The party is incredibly divided in groups and sub-groups. It is a divided house. Congress workers say the party is not contesting the ongoing state elections unitedly. There is a difference of opinions. It is felt that it is non-serious towards many of its contesting candidates. It can do well in Basohli, Billawar, Bani and Kathua constituencies where BJP is faced with a lot of infighting over the "wrong" distribution of tickets. In these constituencies, Congress is not doing any hard work but to ensure the win of its candidates, senior BJP leaders are holding rallies there in support of their candidates. The Congress leadership is lacking enthusiasm.
6. Arguably the most basic job of Congress was to act like a watchdog in the government. This, however, did not happen and its ministers failed in this duty miserably and many of them had to give clarification about the allegations of corruption they faced from time to time.
It is even more worse than it looks. In the ongoing state elections, Congress may have a near-death experience. |
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