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| Vakil on Congress, NC & PDP | | Day Dreaming | | Neha
Jammu, Sept 12: Member All India Congress Committee (AICC) and former Minister Abdul Gani Vakil, who is known more as a Azad loyalist than a Congressman, is one person in the Congress who speaks more than any Congress spokesperson in Jammu & Kashmir speaks. He reflects on the working of the NC-Congress coalition Government at regular intervals and his interventions have invariably confused his audience. The reason is that he criticizes and commends the coalition Government simultaneously.
Vakil on Tuesday did the same while addressing a public meeting in the Rafiabad area of Baramulla district. Claiming that the Congress party will form the next Government in Jammu & Kashmir without the support of any political party, he lambasted the NC-led coalition Government and said that "people are too much fed up with coalition system and sentimental slogans of regional parties whether it is the slogan of autonomy or self-rule". He also said: "People are interested in development and corruption-free society, but it is unfortunate that corruption is increasing in coalition system and the development is stagnated". He did not stop just there. He went on to say that "corruption as one of the biggest challenges before the State", "there is dire need to check corruption at all levels so that Central funds meant for the State reach down up to grassroots level" and "bureaucratic hurdles must be done away with so that people have direct access to the Government".
It is obvious that Vakil pointed his fingers towards the State Government of which the Congress is a very crucial constituent. Vakil only spoke the truth as far as his reflections on the governance of the State were concerned. Leave aside his claim that the Congress will form the next Government in the State on his own. He has his own assessment, although it can be described as day dreaming considering the fact that the Congress today is disliked across the country, including Jammu & Kashmir. The people of the State have lost faith both in the Congress and the NC for reasons too well-known.
Vakil, on the one hand, denounced the NC-led Government and, on the other, took on the People's Democratic Party (PDP). He tore into the PDP leadership saying it is "criticizing the coalition Government". It needs to be underscored that the PDP leadership has been levelling charges against the coalition Government similar to the ones Vakil levels against it at regular intervals. In other words, he came to the rescue of the NC-led coalition Government. He did confuse his audience by criticizing and defending the State Government at the same time. It is, however, true that his main target was the NC. How else should one interpret his statement that "it was the PDP leadership which (committed) a political blunder in 2008 by withdrawing support to the efficient Government headed by Ghulam Nabi Azad and brought into existence the present coalition"? The fact is that he bemoaned the "revival and rebirth of the NC".
It was clear from what he said about the NC that a section of the local Congress leadership has already started thinking in terms of dumping the NC and befriending the PDP, which is improving its position in the Kashmir Valley with each passing day. |
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