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JAMMU, Apr 1: The NC is in deep trouble. It had already lost much of its political space in the Valley owing to its acts of omission and commission and utter failure to deliver on any front, as also its failure to control the situation in Kashmir in 2010, the year when over 100 persons lost their lives, as well as his failure to make the Union Government to withdraw the AFSPA from the state and reduce the footprints of the Army in the Valley. It was not for nothing that Omar Abdullah and his father Farooq Abdullah worked day and night to persuade the Congress high command to enter into a pre-poll alliance with their party so that they could avert the impending defeat at the hands of the PDP whose leadership had been working hard to consolidate hold over its constituency and expand it further. NC additional general secretary and Omar Abdullah's uncle had publicly opposed his nephew's insistence on a pre-poll alliance with the Congress saying what the latter said was not the party's view.
It needs to be underlined that even the local Congress leadership in the Valley and JKPCC chief Saif-ud-Din Soz were not really interested in a pre-poll alliance with the NC. That many local Congress leaders and workers in the Valley were, and are, against the NC could be seen from their resolve that they would not work for the success of the NC. The JKPCC chief has acknowledged this fact like the NC candidate from the Anantnag Lok Sabha constituency. Both have admitted that all is not well with the coalition and the Congress workers are not working for the coalition candidate to ensure his success.
As if all this was not enough to cause worry to the NC, NC leader and Social Welfare Minister Sakina Itoo who further created difficulties for her party by invoking religion for political benefits. It was expected that the PDP would make maximum possible use of the sin committed by Itoo and it has happened. The PDP leaders in general and its president and Leader of Opposition in the Assembly Mehbooba Mufti in particular have made it a big poll issue, thus creating additional difficulties for the NC in Kashmir. The PDP has not only approached the Election authorities and sought action against Ittoo and the NC, but has also unleashed a campaign in the Valley to tell the people that the NC has been insulting the Holy Quran for garnering their votes. "The NC has a history of exploiting religious sentiments of people and their leadership in the past has indulged in cheap tactics. But people are now wise enough to not get influenced by such ploys... It is a matter of utter shame that a Minister of NC is coercing and coaxing an old man to join her party by making him swear on Holy Quran and Prophet (peace be upon him)," said Mehbooba while addressing a gathering in Tral. She is candidate for the Lok Sabha election. The PDP leaders have also been taking on present NC-Congress regime and terming it as "most corrupt and scandalous" and telling the Kashmiris that "while scandals outside the state invite hue and cry, here they are brushed under the carpet by the ruling regime". "The corrupt Ministers and bureaucrats are given a free hand to loot the state exchequer," the PDP leaders are saying to expose the NC-Congress coalition Government.
What has been the reaction of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah to the PDP's charge that it was exploiting the religious sentiments of the people of Kashmir hinting at what Itoo did? He defended her, thus leaving none in any doubt that the NC leadership is desperate to repeat its 2009 performance in Kashmir. It is a different story that the PDP is not going to let the NC leadership go scot-free. It is determined to make the people of the Valley to teach the NC leadership a lesson. |
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