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| Cong high command against escalating political instability in JK | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 19: The Congress high command is said to have suggested to the leaders of its state unit in Jammu and Kashmir to avoid precipitating political crisis in the state by escalating conflict with the National Conference.
Party sources said that the Congress leadership in Delhi is worried over the hike in tension on the LOC and the IB, following repeated ceasefire violations being committed by Pakistani troops, and in the context of this development the high command does not want the party unit to trigger political instability in Jammu and Kashmir.
According to these sources, the high command has also urged the Union Health Minister, Ghulam Nabi Azad, and the PCC chief, Saif-ud-Din Soz, to close their ranks and end the prolonged tussle between the loyalists and the dissidents. A united Congress alone could do well in the next Assembly and the Lok Sabha elections in Jammu and Kashmir.
Sources said that the Congress high command is very keen to see the present political arrangement to complete its tenure on the ground that any political controversy or crisis in Jammu and Kashmir could affect the Congress fortune in the five states that are going to the polls during the current year.
These instructions to the state unit of the party have been given after the resentment in the NC camp over the defection of some NC leaders to the Congress was known to the AICC leadership.
The Congress leadership in the centre is averse to any political uncertainty or instability gripping Jammu and Kashmir which could be possible if the alliance between the NC and the Congress suffers some rupture.
It may also encourage agencies across the LOC for resorting to repeated ceasefire violations which could force border people to flee to safer places as had been witnessed in 1999 when several lakh people from various sectors on this side of the IB ha fled to safer places. These people had to stay in tents and thatched huts for over three years and went back after the ceasefire agreement was signed in 2003. |
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