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| NC makes another bid to woo centre and Congress | | | Jammu, March 29
By participating in the meeting of the Working Group on centre-state relations held in Delhi on Thursday the leadership of the main opposition National Conference has, once again, demonstrated its keenness in securing political mileage from the growing rift between the PDP and the Congress.
The NC leadership had boycotted a couple of meetings of the Working Group on centre-state relations in protest against continued human rights violations by the security forces in Jammu and Kashmir. They had refused to attend such meetings despite requests made by Chief Minister, Ghulam Nabi Azad and other leaders.
The NC President, Omar Abdullah announced on Wednesday that “we have decided to attend the meeting of the Working Group on centre state relations in response to the Prime Minister’s letter in which he had assured him that there will be a zero tolerance against human rights violations.”But Omar Abdullah had possibly remained aware that human rights violations continued though on a low scale and without any political reason he should have no urgency for attending today’s WG meeting.
Observers here said that the National Conference leadership has been,during the last one year, in the look out for an opportunity to be on the right side of not only the Congress in Jammu and Kashmir but also by the side of the central Government.
The reason for this is that the NC leadership wants to draw a political mileage for ensuring fall of the PDP from the power podium. Earlier the NC leadership had
Sided with the Congress to see that the PDP had no chance for winning the posts of mayor and Deputy mayor in the recent elections in the Municipal Corporations in Srinagar and Jammu. That a secret understanding has been reached between the NC leadership and the Chief Minister had been evident from none too old statement of Dr Farooq Abdullah that “I am ready to become a bridegroom”. This he had stated in reference to a question whether the NC would support the Congress led Government if the PDP pulled out of the ruling coalition.
As Azad became more uncomfortable with the Mufti and his party ministers he felt comfortable in the response he had received from the NC leadership.Both Dr Abdullah and Omar Abdullah had realized that so long Ms Sonia Gandhi and other senior Congress functionaries were opposed to a tieup between the Congress and the NC in Jammu and Kashmir the Mufti would continue to occupy the centre stage in the political scene in the state.And in its final bid to woo the Prime Minister the NC leadership participated in the meeting of the Working Group on centre-state relations in Delhi today.
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