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| What is the political future of NC? | | Omar Abdullah's tweets | | Stark Reality
Rustam
JAMMU, May 19: The defeated J&K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Saturday tweeted a number of times on Saturday to give the people to understand that his party was just down and not completely out. His tweets said that the NC would bounce back like the PDP did back after five years. "We are humbled by your verdict. This is as good a place to start learning and embarking on a new journey. We will learn. We will grow!" read a tweet on the official Twitter handle of NC. "We have always survived and sustained. We have bled on our flag and never allowed it to fade. From here, we will script a historic comeback," another NC tweet read. "We have served YOU for the last five years with dedication. Today we acknowledge YOUR grievances and now we will rise to YOUR expectations". Omar Abdullah re-tweeted these tweets. The NC, like the Congress, suffered the worst-ever defeat in its electoral history. It not only lost all the three Lok Sabha seats to the PDP, but also failed to emerge as a winner even in ten assembly segments in Kashmir Valley. The Election Commission's figures clearly indicated that the PDP that had won only 19 out of 46 assembly segments in 2008 doubled its tally to 39 segments in the Lok Sabha polls. It led in as many as 20 more segments. Of these 20 assembly segments the NC lost 15 segments to the PDP - 5 in party's bastion of Srinagar itself, two each in Baramulla, Kupwara, Ganderbal and Budgam and one each in Bandipora and Kulgam.
Significantly, the non-NC segments where PDP led include Dooru and Kokernag of NC's ally Congress in Anantnag and the CPI-M's lone Kulgam constituency. The PDP also led in Tangmarg and Khansahab constituencies.
As for Jammu and Ladakh, the NC did not contest the Lok Sabha election. It was its ally the Congress, which contested the election in these two provinces and lost all the three seats to the BJP. It was a historic victory both of the PDP and the BJP and these parties shared between them the over 52 per cent of the total votes polled. The vote share of the NC was a paltry 11 per cent.
Omar Abdullah says that the NC will bounce back in the upcoming assembly elections. What more could he say? It is a different matter that he failed to impress anyone. The NC had lost its sheen and appeal the day it entered into a power-sharing agreement with the Congress in 2009 and left Jammu province and Ladakh to the care of the Congress. It is, of course, true that the NC had little or no support-base in these provinces. Notwithstanding the fact that it limited its area of activities to the Kashmir Valley and did all that it could to please the people of Kashmir, it failed and failed miserably in the Lok Sabha elections. The electorate abandoned it like the Indian electorate abandoned and discarded the Congress across the nation with contempt. The reasons responsible for the debacle of the NC are too well known and there is no need to catalogue those here. At the same time, it can be said that it would be extremely difficult for the NC leadership to win back the trust of the people in the Valley. The time at its disposal is rather limited; not even seven months, and its opponents in Kashmir and Jammu - PDP and BJP - are all set to perform exceedingly well in the assembly elections. The NC and the Congress will be at the receiving end in Kashmir and the BJP, coupled with the Modi factor, will leave no stone unturned to win a minimum of 30 seats in Jammu province and Ladakh - a realizable goal. The fact of the matter is that Omar Abdullah's tweets are not going to help his and his party and all the more because his own father and party president Farooq Abdullah lost to the PDP and lost very badly. The defeat of Farooq Abdullah was an indication that the people ofKashmir have lost their confidence in the NC and that its future is bleak. |
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