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| State Cong firm on snapping ties with NC | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 30: The State unit of Congress has asked the party high command to snap ties with the National Conference. "It would be politically wise to go alone in the elections, it believes. The unit believes that the party can win most of the seats in Jammu and had made substantial progress in Kashmir valley.
"The unit is very firm on it. It knows that going with the NC will cost it very much. The high command was briefed about the situation in Delhi recently and it's in the back drop of it that Ghulam Nabi Azad had said party's leadership concern will be taken into account," said a senior party leader, wishing not to be named.
The party unit has told the high command that in the Valley the PDP is gaining ground at the expense of the national conference and it will be all out politically costly proposition if the party sides with the loosing partner.
There is also a view that even if the party doesn't emerge as the single largest party, though party is still confident about it, it feels that it can hold the balance of the power and this is the most important thing for the party.
The Congress is also putting the pressure now after NC is asserting itself after the Congress faced defeats in the four Assembly elections.
"The NC is now treating us like that we are hankering around it. The NC feels that it can dictate terms now. But the NC has lost ground and to save itself politically it's adopting every tactics. But we have told party high command that NC is just bullying and Cong will be best served if it decides to go alone," said a senior Congress Minister.
The party high command though is also thinking that it may go with the NC in the Parliamentary elections and not in the Assembly elections.
The party high command is also getting more views before taking decision and it's in the backdrop of it that NC decided unanimously to announce all three candidates for the Parliamentary election from the Kashmir without waiting for the consent of the Congress.
"NC has got the hint that Congress is doing serious thinking on going with the NC and it's, the reason that it announced its candidate from the Kashmir," said NC leader. |
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