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| 'None in Congress in Jammu fit for leading JKPCC' | | | Rustam
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Mar 2 : Congress high command has once again let down the Jammu-based Congress leadership and appointed Ghulam Ahmad Mir from Kashmir as president of Jammu & Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee replacing Saif-ud-Din Soz, an ethnic Kashmir belonging to the same religious sect. Controversial former tourism Minister Mir, who was eyeing third consecutive victory from the Dooru Assembly constituency in the Kashmir Valley in the 2014 Assembly elections, could not win the election.
Mir, who is considered close to AICC vice-president and son of AICC president Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, was today nominated as the JKPCC chief hoping that he would rejuvenate the Congress party in Jammu & Kashmir. The Congress in the 2014 elections could win only 12 seats - 5 out of 37 from Jammu, 4 out of 46 from Kashmir and 3 out of 4 from Ladakh. His appointment has disappointed almost all the senior Congress leaders in Jammu. "The Congress high command has once again let down the Congress leadership in Jammu. It doesn't consider any Congress leader from Jammu fit for leading the Congress parry in the state.
It was because of Jammu that the Congress remained in power from 2002 to 2014," said a senior Congress leader on the condition of anonymity. He also added that the "high command has never trusted the Jammu-based Congress leaders" and that the "high command always put all its eggs in the Kashmiri Congress leadership's basket and the result is there before all of us".
The grouse of the Jammu-based Congress leadership that the high command has for most of the time preferred the Kashmir-based Congress leaders appears to be quite genuine.
Almost all the JKPCC chief till date, barring perhaps three, have been from the Valley, despite the fact that the core constituency of the Congress was always Jammu province. The Congress, for example, in 2002 had won 15 seats from Jammu and 5 from Kashmir. In 2008 also, the Congress had performed better in Jammu as compared to Kashmir. It had won 13 seats from Jammu, 3 from Kashmir and only one from Ladakh. Between 2002 and 2008, the Congress shared power with the PDP and between 2009 and 2014, it shared power with the NC.
The nomination of Mir to the top party position in the state would further erode the support-base of the Congress party in Jammu province. For, the bulk of Jammu-based Congress leaders and cadres are "fed up with the Kashmiri domination over the party". |
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