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| NC desperate to forge pre-poll alliance with Congress | | Fear of impending disaster | | Neha
Jammu, Nov 26: Convinced that the upcoming Lok Sabha and Assembly elections would prove a Waterloo for the party in case it contests the elections separately, the NC leadership is trying its level best to forge a pre-poll alliance with the Congress, its natural ally, notwithstanding the fact that NC leaders like Sheikh Nazir and Mustafa Kamaal hate the Congress from the core of their heart and Farooq Abdullah and Omar Abdullah are there in the UPA not out of conviction but out of compulsion, including their insatiable lust for power and worldly comforts.
That the NC is very eager for a pre-poll alliance with the Congress again became clear when Omar Abdullah showered politically motivated praises on the UPA of which the NC is an integral part. How else should one interpret what he said about the UPA and the NC and the Congress and the significance if they remained united? He, inter-alia, said: "The Congress and the NC will jointly defeat the communal and divisive forces… The UPA leadership gave all possible 'support" to the state government in fulfilling the promises made with the people…It is the NC and the Congress which have been at the receiving end of the divisive and opportunistic politics…The NC and the Congress together would defeat the communal forces".
It is not only the NC which wants a pre-poll alliance with the Congress. There are certain elements in the Congress as well who would want their high command to forge a pre-poll alliance with the NC as far as the Parliamentary elections in Jammu & Kashmir are concerned. Last time also, the two parties had fought the Lok Sabha elections jointly with the Congress fielding its candidate in the two Lok Sabha constituencies in Jammu province and in the lone Lok Sabha constituency in Ladakh and the NC fielding its candidates in all the three Lok Sabha constituencies in the Valley.
The very fact that one Jammu-based MP, one Jammu-based minister and one Jammu-based MLC were present on the occasion and the very fact that they showered praises on Chief Minister Omar Abdullah did suggest that something is cooking up between the two parties. The Congress MP and the Minister in their address commended Omar Abdullah and asserted that he "was leading the state towards a new path of development" - a view not many Congressmen in Jammu actually endorse. The Congress MP even went to the extent of saying that "only the Nation Conference and the Congress alliance is capable of carrying forward the development activities in Jammu & Kashmir" and this was not a simple statement. It was a meaning statement that indicated to an extent the direction the NC and Congress are heading towards. |
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