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| Speaking Truth NC-Cong victory no cause for jubilation, says Vakil | | | Neha | 12/11/2012 6:58:30 AM |
| EARLY TIMES REPORT
jammu, Dec 10: AICC member and former Cabinet Minister Abdul Gani Vakil yesterday took on those in the Congress who had been celebrating the recent victory of the Congress-NC in the Legislative Council elections as an outstanding victory and said that "there was nothing much to be jubilant about the results". He made these important comments while addressing Congress Seva Dal workers in Jammu and the occasion was the 66 birth anniversary of the AICC president and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi.
Taking on those who had been celebrating the victory, Vakil said that their happiness and jubilation was misplaced and that it is the "People's Democratic Party (PDP) which has made inroads into the strong NC and Congress bastions which should be a cause of worry for the coalition partners". "The result shows that both the Congress and the NC will have to work hard, and ensure a better and transparent governance to win over the masses, if it intends to register its victory in the 2014 election," he also said.
Vakil is the first Congress leader in the State who has understood the ground realities as they exist in the State. He was absolutely right when he said that the PDP has succeeded in creating for itself a big constituency and that it would surely turn the tables on the NC and the Congress in case the ruling coalition failed to come up to the expectations of the masses. He admitted that existing system of governance is far from people-centric and that what is immediately needed to win over the masses is better, responsive and transparent governance. (The PDP has been taking on the coalition Government on a daily basis and terming it as anti-people, corrupt, arrogant and undemocratic. It has over the period succeeded in carrying conviction with a substantial chunk of population in Kashmir. This became clear from the election results. The PDP would have won both the Legislative Council seats earmarked for Kashmir, had the NC and the Congress not contested the elections jointly.)
Vakil not only questioned the happiness of the Congress leadership, but also asked the party leaders and Seva Dal workers "not to associate the Legislative Council elections with the coming Assembly elections in 2014". It was an important statement. It clearly indicated that there are leaders in the Congress party who might oppose the idea of a pre-poll alliance with the NC. |
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