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| Issueless, directionless NC indulging in PDP-BJP bashing | | Election 2014 and Jammu | | Neha
JAMMU, Mar 11: Election dates have been announced by the Election Commission of India and the new government at the centre would be in place by May 21. The people of Jammu province would go to polls on April 10 and 17. The PDP, the Congress, the BJP, the Panthers Party and the BSP would be there in the Jammu's electoral arena. The NC has opted out as it has no support-base in Jammu and has entered into pre-poll alliance with its ally, the Congress. Notwithstanding the fact that the NC is not in the fray in Jammu province, its leadership has unleashed a vilification campaign against the PDP, which is the NC's arch-political rival in the Kashmir Valley, and the BJP.
Since the NC leadership has nothing to impress or induce the people of Jammu province, it has been leveling wild allegations both against the pro-self-rule PDP and anti-autonomy BJP. The NC leadership, which is known for its divisive views and which has failed to deliver on any front during the past more than five years, has been accusing the PDP and the BJP of hatching a conspiracy against the state government in order to dethrone it and capture power not only in the state but also to win the general election. "The BJP has already started playing communal card and whipping up passions to woo the voters,' it has been saying without substantiate the charge. It is inviting criticism by saying that the BJP has made its intentions known well by nominating Narendra Modi as it PM candidate "knowing well his role in Gujarat riots". "This is a sort of provocation to secular and peace loving people across the country," the Jammu-based agents of the NC, who are more loyal than the king, have also been saying.
They are not only terming Modi as communal. They are also charging the BJP with playing what they term as "shrewd politics by having a secret understanding with the PDP to cut the secular votes". In other words, they are also dismissing the PDP as a communal outfit despite the fact that there is no fundamental difference between the political philosophy of this party and that of the NC and the Congress. "This is a strategy drawn over the months, which is being put into practice subtly and clandestinely," they have been saying and adding that both the BJP and the PDP are "pursuing anti-people agenda and vitiating the atmosphere by resorting to falsehood and deceit". While the "PDP is missing no opportunity to exploit the woes of the people, the BJP has displayed rabid communal politics to provoke a major segment of secular population" is another ridiculer argument they are advancing only to irritate the people.
This is the kind of negative politics the NC leadership has been taking recourse to, instead of focusing attention on democratic and economic issues. The fact of the matter is that it cannot focus their attention on these issues. They are not interested in these people-centric issues; they are competent only to rake up non-issues and play one section against the other. The kind of politics the NC is playing will not benefit the Congress. On the contrary, it would only add to the woes of the Congress, which, like the NC, has also been beating about the bush. The NC, in short, is bereft of any positive agenda. Communal it, communal it is and communal it would always remain. It's no wonder then that the NC has become irrelevant in Jammu province for all practical purposes. |
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