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| Congress to part ways with NC before Assembly elections | | | Mustansir
srinagar, Aug 9: The ongoing war between the coalition partners, National Conference and Congress in Jammu and Kashmir may not have any effect on the Omar Abdullah Government, but there are indications that the two parties may part ways by or before the 2014 assembly elections.
If the sources in the AICC are to be believed, senior NC leader, Dr. Mustafa Kamaal's recent utterances against the Congress party and its leadership have been taken seriously by the Congress high command and the senior leaders are discussing the future course of action.
Reports emanating from Congress quarters suggest that the high command might take a call on the issue in the coming days.
Sources said, there was every likelihood that the congress high command might send a strong message this time to its coalition partner in J&K.
They said AICC general secretary in-charge Jammu and Kashmir, Ambika Soni has taken up the issue with the Congress president, Sonia Gandhi and Vice President, Rahul Gandhi and PCC president, professor Saifuddin Soz was also in touch with the leadership.
Meanwhile the state unit of Congress has also decided to give a befitting reply to the Kamaal's criticism.
"National Conference is totally dependent on us, we can take a decision independently or unilaterally to teach them a lesson" an apparently outraged congress leader told Early Times this evening.
"Ever since the formation of NC-Congress coalition Government, Congress has been the only target of Dr Mustafa's criticism but his statements are always a serious embarrassment for his brother Dr Farooq Abdullah, a minister in UPA Government in Delhi and nephew chief minister Omar Abdullah" said the leader.
It merits a mention here that last year, Kamaal was removed as spokesperson of the party and advised not to issue statements. Petrified by his brother's statements, Dr Farooq has gone on record, saying, 'it is the fault of my father that he is my brother'. At some other occasion Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said his relatives were "making things difficult" for him.
"Funny thing is I don't need anyone to make things difficult for me when I have relatives to do it for me." Omar had twitted.
However, for the past three to four months, Kamaal has again continued with his anti-congress utterances but the son and father duo has maintained silence which suggests that the NC is likely to go with its Delhi-bashing agenda in the next year's Assembly elections.
In a fresh attack, Kamaal hit the Congress straightway in the head by calling the PCC chief Professor Saif-ud-Din Soz a political turncoat who had stabbed the National Conference in the back time and again and said "National Conference doesn't want to destabilize present Coalition Government in the interest of people, otherwise, our heart is never with Congress party." The Congress, for its part, this time, however, has taken the issue very serious and has threatened to boycott cabinet meetings if Kamaal was not reined in by the NC leadership. |
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