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| With eye on 2014 polls; NC, PDP miss no chance to berate each other | | | early times report
Jammu, Dec 27: The way leaders of opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and the ruling National Conference (NC) have raised their voices while criticising each other is seen as a sign of preparations for the next Assembly polls scheduled in 2014.
"It is almost pre-poll fever that has gripped the state with the PDP and the NC leaders exchanging vituperative against each other," said Ghulam Mohammad and Surjit Singh who run tea shops in Srinagar and Jammu.
Knowing that it is going to be ultimately the battle between the NC and the PDP in the next election leaders of the two parties miss no chance in berating each other. The NC blames the PDP for inciting people over extraneous issues while the latter accuse the former of mis-governance and of being a party to all omissions and commissions during the last four years.
While the PDP blames the NC for the ongoing acute shortage of electricity, cooking gas and other essential commodities, which have added to the difficulties of people in the state, the NC accuse the PDP of exaggerating power and cooking gas crisis. The NC spokesman, Tanvir Sadiq has gone to the extent of demanding Mehbooba Mufti's resignation adding that she has been spending the winter in Delhi and visits Srinagar to enforce her call for hartal in protest against power and cooking gas shortage.
The PDP leadership has berated the ruling NC for having aided and supported corrupt practices. The NC is being blamed for having let loose a reign of terror against all those who air their grievances by staging protest demonstrations. Senior PDP leaders Mohammad Dilawar Mir and Nizam-ud-Din Bhat have blamed the NC for its failure to resolve the problem of unemployment.
They said several thousand posts remained vacant in different Government departments and despite massive financial aid from the Centre the state Government has neither been in a position to fill all these vacant posts nor create new posts. Bhat and Mir accused the NC leadership of its total failure in attracting big industrialists for setting up their units in Jammu and Kashmir. They said during the last four years not a single major industrial unit has been set up in the state when two other hill states like Himachal and Uttarakhand have been able to attract huge private investment in industrial sector.
Political pundits foresee bigger verbal spat between the NC and the PDP leaders in the near future because each side was preparing the ground for a vigorous pre-poll campaign. The pundits say that if the ruling coalition fails to improve governance by attending to the day to day problems of people both the NC and the Congress my face rough weather in the next Assembly election.
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