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| Ideological dichotomy leaves NC's Jammu leadership dumb | | Afzal Guru's hanging | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, Feb 11: The Jammu unit of National Conference (NC) is not commenting on Afzal Guru's hanging and seems to have toed the line of its working president Omar Abdullah, who criticised Central Government on the issue.
NC leaders of Jammu have preferred to stay quiet and not issue any statement that could bring any dichotomy within the party to the fore.
In Jammu, NC leaders present themselves as nationalists but whenever they face a situation where ideologically they differ from party leadership and can't express their sentiments, they strategically prefer to remain silent.
On Sunday, when the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah attacked Central Government on hanging Afzal Guru, he was playing to the galleries in the Valley, in the process hurting the political interests of party's Jammu based leadership.
"We stand by our leadership and whatever they have expressed on Guru's hanging, we are with them," Rattan Lal Gupta, NC vice president said.
But the recently appointed senior vice president Surjeet Singh Slathia, who was dropped from Council of Ministers during Cabinet reshuffle, is not spelling out anything and believes that he does not have mandate to speak on the issue.
Even the NC provincial president for Jammu Devender Singh Rana, who is close associate of Omar Abdullah, hasn't made any statement on Guru's hanging so far. Being the chief of Jammu province of party, Rana is yet to clear his stand on the issue.
It is the time for Rana and other NC leaders to come clean on the hanging of convict in Parliament attack case. People as well as party workers at grass root level are waiting for their leaders to speak but the NC's Jammu leadership has clearly been muted by the political compulsions within the party. |
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