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| After rubbing salt on the wounds, NC conciliates Sonia, Rahul | | Support for saving the chair | | Rustam
JAMMU, Dec 14: Very strange is the political behaviour of the National Conference (NC), a part of UPA at the Centre and leader of the NC-Congress coalition in the State. On December 8, when the election authorities in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Delhi announced the poll results - all against the Congress and in favour of the BJP, National Conference working president and Chief Minister Omar Abdullah questioned the leadership qualities of AICC vice-president and Sonia Gandhi's son Rahul Gandhi without saying so. And a day later on December 9, the Chief Minister's father and Union Minister Farooq Abdullah not only did the same but also catalogued the reasons responsible for the humiliating defeat of the Congress in the just-held Assembly elections in the four States.
On December 8, Omar Abdullah tweeted that the very poor attendance at the election rallies, addressed by Rahul Gandhi, was an indication that the Congress was destined to lose badly the Assembly elections in these four States. There was no ambiguity in his tweet. He clearly hinted at Rahul and his vote-catching ability. A day later, his father said that the extensive campaigning of Rahul Gandhi did not help the Congress and that the Congress suffered defeats in the four States because of "inflation, corruption and anti-people policies". NC additional general secretary Mustafa Kamaal, on the other hand, had taken on the Congress and used very strong language against it. There are reasons to believe that what both the father and the son duo said must have further upset the already rather upset and shattered Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi. After all, they made such statements at a time when Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi needed the moral support of their allies. And it was to conciliate Sonia Gandhi and apply balm to the wounds that Omar Abdullah on Friday visit to her in New Delhi to reassure her that the NC will continue its support to her and the Congress-controlled UPA Government at the Centre. It is reported that during his meeting with Sonia Gandhi, he reiterated his party's continuous support to the UPA and said the "bonds of relations between the two would get further strengthened in the coming days". "The All India Congress Committee president and the working president of the NC also reviewed the status of functioning of the NC-Congress coalition Government in Jammu and Kashmir and expressed satisfaction over the performance of the ruling dispensation,' the report also said. Indeed, the NC leadership plays a very strange type of politics. |
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