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| After facing humiliating defeat in 2014 NC, Cong write-off other parties | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Apr 23: Opposition National Conference and Congress are cribbing about PDP-BJP coalition hiding behind the Election Commission of India and getting the bye-polls deferred for Anantnag constituency in south Kashmir.
The Anantnag seat fell vacant after the death of the former Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed in January this year and it was expected that incumbent Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti may contest from there to secure a berth in the Legislative Assembly.
An analyst while talking to Early Times said, "Both NC and Congress seem to have forgotten the defeat which they witnessed in 2014 parliamentary and assembly polls. Most of their former ministers and top leaders had to bite the dust and were out rightly rejected by the people. Despite facing a humiliating defeat just one and half year ago they (NC and Congress) seem to have written of the other parties."
He said, "The misrule and poor governance which JK witnessed during the NC-Cong tenure from 2009 to 2014 is still afresh in the minds of people and the electorate. It seems leaders of both the parties are living in fool's paradise and are hoping against the hope to win the Anantnag seat. Someone needs to tell them that bye-polls have been deferred and not called off. Sooner or later elections would be held and they would get a chance to prove how powerful both NC and Congress are."
A Kashmir watcher said, "The erstwhile NC-Congress regime messed up the entire system and left the people in lurch. Slowly the skeletons are tumbling out of the old cupboards. Recently a shocking revelation came to fore that former Health Minister and senior Congress leader had created Gastroenterology department at Super Specialty hospital in Jammu without seeking the consent of the cabinet and to appoint his own men on key posts."
He said, "Many such scandals involving former ministers have come to fore and if the allegations against them are probed it would open Pandora's box and would expose them to the hilt."
Pertinently, former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah had termed postponement of bye polls to Anantnag assembly seat as a "loud and clear admission of failure" of Mehbooba Mufti-led PDP-BJP alliance government in the state.
Omar had said that Mehbooba was "evidently terrified" and "petrified" of facing the people.
"In seeking the postponement of the election for the Anantnag assembly seat, Mehbooba Mufti has shown that she has panicked and is hiding behind the Election Commission.
Referring to Omar's statement a PDP leader said, "Despite ruling Jammu and Kashmir for six years Omar did not dare to contest from Ganderbal, which was considered to be NC's bastion. He couldn't find a secure constituency for him and had to contest from two seats. He lost from Sonawar and managed to win from Beerwah with a slender margin of 1000 votes. He should keep his sermons to himself and concentrate on his party which is at the verge of becoming a history."
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