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| Congress in favour of keeping alliance option open with PDP | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, June 29: Believing that after the next Assembly poll results the Congress would emerge as a Government maker in Jammu and Kashmir the state unit of the party led by PCC Chief Saif-ud-Din Soz is in favour of keeping the option for forming a coalition Government with the PDP.
Party sources said that the top leaders of the state unit of the Congress have conveyed to the party high command the need for keeping open the option for forming a Government in alliance with the PDP. They said that this could be possible only if the Congress went to the polls without any alliance with the National Conference.
The sources made it clear that the party leaders were not against repeating the experiment of running the Government in alliance with the National Conference but they do not want to get their choice of fielding candidates by forging pre-poll alliance either with the NC or with the PDP.
According to the party sources, the Congress contested the 2002 and 2008 election alone and it did perform well. "We do not want to carry the burden of any mistakes committed by the NC while seeking votes from the people," said a senior Congress leader on the condition he remaining unidentified.
Reports from the National Conference quarters indicate a division of opinion among its senior leaders over the issue of having a pre-poll alliance with the Congress. Those who are opposed to it say that fighting election in alliance with he Congress could prove a burden for the NC in the Kashmir valley, which is its stronghold. But those who support pre-poll alliance with congress argue that by doing so it could seal the prospects of the PDP whose leaders are keen to regain power with the help of the Congress. Whatever may be the arguments in favour or against the pre-poll alliance the role of Ambica Soni and Ghulam Nabi Azad is going to be crucial as far as determining the future of Congress-NC alliance. So far Azad has not revealed his cards. Possibly he is opposed to having any pre-poll or post-poll alliance with the PDP. |
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