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| Desire to remain in power compels NC to allow Cong to lead KAHDC | | Respecting people's will | | Rustam
JAMMU, Sept 9: President of the National Conference (NC) and Union Minister for Renewable Energy Farooq Abdullah on September 8 virtually censured his son Omar Abdullah and his advisors to please the Congress party so that he remains in power at the centre and his son continues to lead the state government till January 2015. In fact, he said that the people of Kargil defeated the NC in the just held elections to the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council Kargil (LAHDCK) and it was the Congress which won the election. He declared that the NC will not form the LAHDCK. "We have decided that as Congress has won there, it will form the council. It is the decision of the people there," Farooq Abdullah said at a function inSrinagar.
The NC, which had been leading the Kargil council ever since its formation in 2003, suffered a massive defeat in the just held elections to the Kargil council. It could win only 8 seats as against its 2008 tally of 18. The Congress won 10 as against its 2008 tally of 8 and got the support of five other elected councilors, including three who were supported by the Congress. Had the NC not played a dirty game the Congress would have formed the council in Kargil by now as it had the required numbers. It needed just 14 members to form the council and it had 15 on its side.
What the NC president said could be taken to mean the negation of what his son and Chief Minister Omar Abdullah did to enable his party men to recapture the council in Kargil. Omar Abdullah had nominated four members to the council to tilt the balance in favour of his party, which had won just eight seats out of 24 seats it contested on August 22. He took this step much against the wishes of the Jammu & Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) - a decision that was interpreted by the JKPCC as undemocratic and against the coalition dharma.
The decision of Omar Abdullah offended the JKPCC to the extent that its top leadership sought the intervention of the Congress high command. The JKPCC chief even suggested that the party would knock at the doors of an appropriate court to seek justice so that the Congress, which won 10 seats on its own and had the backing of five others, could form the council in Kargil. One of the Congress leaders had gone to the extent of reminding the NC that it was in power because of the Congress and said that the Chief Minister must be grateful to the Congress as he owes his office to the Congress. As for the Congress workers across the state, they all wanted the JKPCC and the Congress high command to withdraw support to the NC-led government.
The announcement that was made by Farooq Abdullah does suggest that it was the fear of losing power both at the centre and in the state that compelled him to make his party not to stake claim to the council. His decision could be construed as the first victory of the Congress over the NC in almost five years. He did say that his announcement reflected the party's commitment to the people's democracy, but the fact of the matter is that the NC is known for its dictatorial attitude. Had the JKPCC and other local Congress leaders not taken an exception to the undemocratic decision of Omar Abdullah, Farooq Abdullah would not have said what he said. |
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