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| Re-organization of NC Minority Cell on cards as Party High Command perturbed over its present leaders' role | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Apr 25: National Conference (NC) High Command is totally perturbed over the role of its Minority Cell after yesterday's polling for Anantnag Lok Sabha seat when it came to know that maximum votes were polled by displaced Pandits for opposition parties.
According to Party sources the president Dr Farooq Abdullah who was approached by various senior leaders of the party leaders late last night have urged him to reconstitute the Minority Cell of the organisation by bringing those activists in limelight who have been associated with the party for decades together even prior to mass migration of Pandits and were the part of party cadre since seventies. Sources said there is a lot of resentment among the activists of Minority Cell itself over the role of present leadership who accuse the Party High Command of sidelining the dedicated activists who remained along with it during the turmoil period as its staunch activists.
These activists have also decided to meet the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, who is the working president of the Party, its state president Dr Farooq Abdullah, general secretary Sheikh Nazir Ahmed, additional general secretary, Dr Mustafa Kamaal and other senior leaders to make them familiar about the functioning of the Minority Cell which they alleged has sidelined the dedicated cadre. They said that the dedicated Party activists who remained shoulder to shoulder with Party leadership during the trying times can't afford the monopoly of few outsiders who are not familiar with the sacrifices and the struggle of the Party.
Party sources said that NC patriarch Dr Abdullah will reconstitute the Minority Cell soon after the Parliament elections by giving important responsibility to its basic cadre which was associated to it right from seventies or prior to mass migration of Pandits from Valley and divest the self seekers from present organizational posts. Sources said rejuvenation of Minority Cell has become must after the Lok Sabha polls for the Party in view of reported feedback given to Dr Abdullah and Omar Abdullah by sidelined members of the cell that the majority of Pandits have shifted towards opposition parties. In view of yesterday's boycott call in Anantnag Lok Sabha Constituency the NC leadership considers that Pandits vote can prove decisive in coming Assembly elections and the Party can't afford to ignore the community as a whole, sources added.
Sources said as some senior NC leader were contacted by a large number of Minority Cell activists from polling booths yesterday who gave them details of every minute happenings on all the 13 polling booths of Jammu have urged them that any delay in rejuvenating the Cell would harm the larger interests of the Party. The NC leadership has also been informed by the Minority Cell cadres that aligning with party by certain men to score points over their rivals who are linked to PDP or other opposition parties will not help in strengthening the NC as it needs the men with acumen who are linked to grass root level and have worked among displaced people for years together, sources added.
Sources said only such activists of the Party can seek support from the migrants and not those who have vested interests in aligning with NC and have just come to get organizational posts in the Cell by sidelining its dedicated cadre. |
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