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| Congress unlikely to learn lessons from its defeat in four states | | Conciliating Jammu | | Rustam
JAMMU, Dec 9: Has the results of assembly elections in four states of MP, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Delhi in favour of the BJP shocked and upset the Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Committee (JKPCC)? And will the JKPCC learn any lesson from its past mistakes in Jammu and Kashmir and play positive, as opposed to communal and Valley-centric, politics? There is no definite answer to these questions at the moment. In fact, the answer could be yes and no if one goes by what the JKPCC chief Saif-ud-Din Soz said on Sunday reacting to the poll results. He said that the results which came "are really unexpected, unfortunate and a caution for the entire Congress party" and that "these results have now obliged the party to take notice of it".
However, as expected, he said that he could not blame only AICC vice president Rahul Gandhi for the results as the mistakes have been committed collectively. "Rahul Gandhi is relevant and will remain same in the future and for the results every single man of the party is responsible," said the JKPCC chief. "A section of society has possibly accepted the lies of Narendra Modi though what he says is devoid of facts but except Modi there are several other factors which have played vital role in the defeat of Congress. The issues like inflation which the BJP has used to attract the public have benefited the party and in this way Lok Sabha will be difficult".
One can understand what he said about the responsibility or otherwise of Rahul Gandhi, but the way he described Modi and his impact on the assembly polls did suggest that the Congress is actually unwilling to recoginise the ground realities and the emerging political scene in the country. Narendra Modi is a phenomenon and those who would ignore it would become irrelevant sooner than later, as it happened to the Congress party in the four crucial states of MP, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Delhi.
The Congress in Jammu and Kashmir is not standing on a strong wicket. Jammu was its strong support-base, but its acts of omission and commission and Valley-centric approach and stand on Pakistan or its Srinagar-Delhi axis, Srinagar-Islamabad axis and Delhi-Islamabad axis formulation have not only offended the people of Jammu province but also of Ladakh, besides several religious and ethnic minorities across the state. It has over the period become unpopular in the state by allying itself with party/parties which have never considered Jammu and Ladakh as part and parcel of the polity and deprived them of their legitimate share in the political and economic processes. The Congress in Jammu and Kashmir has acted in such an irresponsible manner that it in order to please a section of Kashmiri population threw into dustbin its election manifestos again and again, thus leaving its core constituency high and dry.
The JKPCC president rightly said that it would take note of what led to the collapse of the Congress party in the four states. He must in the larger interest of the state and its people and his own party. But the question is: Will the JKPCC will adopt state, as opposed to Kashmir-centric, approach and respect the sentiments of the people of Jammu and Ladakh? It is not an easy question to be answered considering the track record of the Congress party. If the JKPCC has to play some role in Jammu and Kashmir, it has no other option but to abandon perverted concept of secularism and the Kashmir-centric approach, but also play a positive politics based on democratic and economic issues.
It should remember that the people across the nation are up in arms against the Congress party in general and Nehru-Gandhi family in particular. And there are reasons to believe that the Congress would become totally irrelevant after the 2014 general elections. |
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