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| Legislative Council elections, no cause for NC to pat itself | | First Comment | |
early times report
JAMMU, Dec 6: The NC has won both the Legislative Council seats it contested. In Jammu region, it won one of the two seats contested by the ruling coalition by a big margin of 6917 votes. The NC candidate captured 9070 and her nearest rival and PDP candidate got 2153 votes. In Kashmir, the victory margin was 2675 votes. The NC candidate got 8586 votes and his nearest rival and PDP candidate polled 5911 votes. The NC leadership hailed the outcome of the elections as its great victory.
The NC leadership can surely claim that it has won both the seats it contested. Of course, it has won both the seats it contested and victory is victory. But the fact remains that it won both the seats with the help of the Congress party. In Jammu region, the NC has limited support-base and this region is represented in the Lok Sabha by the Congress party. It must not overlook this fact.
However, it is the outcome of elections in Kashmir which indicates that the NC has over the period become less acceptable to the people and that it has to depend on other political party/parties for wining an election/elections. In fact, the working president of the NC and Chief Minister Omar Abdullah had accepted the ground reality and declared on November 22 at Ganderbal that the NC would like to forge pre-poll alliance with the Congress party so that they could contest the Assembly elections jointly. Despite the fact that the NC contested the elections in alliance with the Congress party, its victory margin was not really impressive. The fact of the matter is that the NC would have lost both the Kashmir seats to the principle opposition party PDP, had it not contested the elections jointly. The NC must feel obliged to the Congress party which obliged it by not fielding all the four candidates. It is, however, also true that the Congress could score victory in Kashmir only because the NC supported its candidate.
All in all, it can be said that the NC has lost its sheen and appeal and that its popularity in the Kashmir Valley, which used to be its stronghold, has dwindled to the extent that it has to bank upon the Congress party which otherwise is hated by bulk of the NC leaders and cadres for reasons too well-known. |
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