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After fielding candidates in Kashmir, NC for pre-poll alliance with Congress 2014 General Election 12/18/2013 10:28:20 PM Rustam JAMMU, Dec 18: Strange is the National Conference's concept of coalition dharma. First it declares the names of its three candidates for all the three Lok Sabha constituencies in the Kashmir valley and then proposes a pre-poll alliance with the Congress. Only the other day, NC president and Union Minister for Renewable Energy Farooq Abdullah, himself one of the three nominees, declared that the NC and the Congress would contest the upcoming general election together and not separately. A few days ago, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah had also virtually suggested at Nagrota that it would be desirable if the NC and the Congress contested the coming elections together and he had made this statement from a platform which was also shared by a number of Congress leaders, including one MP. Reports also suggest that Omar Abdullah and AICC president Sonia Gandhi also discussed the possibility or otherwise of a pre-poll alliance. Omar Abdullah met Sonia Gandhi in Delhi two days after the Congress suffered a massive defeat in four out of five State and he had ridiculed the leadership of Rahul Gandhi saying the poor presence in the election rallies was a clear indication that the Congress was losing the election. His meeting with Sonia Gandhi was also described as a damage-control exercise. Significantly, no senior leader of the Congress party has reacted so far to the unilateral decision of the NC to announce its candidates for the three Lok Sabha seats in the Valley and it does indicate that the Congress high command is toying with the 2009 seat-sharing formula. In 2009, the NC had contested election in Kashmir and the Congress in Jammu and Ladakh. And it would not be surprising if the Congress replicates 2009 in 2014 considering the fact that it is passing through a very critical phase. Political pundits believe that 2014 could turn out to be a Waterloo for the Congress party and it may become a spent-bullet. This perhaps is the reason that the NC, which itself has become one region (Kashmir) outfit, takes the Congress for granted and dictates terms to it. It's no wonder that very many people term the Congress as the "B-team" of the NC.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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