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| Difficult to say if Farooq can help NC bounce back | | Congress attacks Omar | | Stark Reality
Rustam
JAMMU, May 21: Poor Omar Abdullah, who has been leading the government in the state with the help of the "unpopular" Congress, is under severe attack. His advisors and provincial presidents are also under attack. The old guards in the NC and supporters of the Kashmir's political organization are one in attacking Chief Minister and party president Omar Abdullah, saying they destroyed the party. They are also attacking the NC ministers saying they never functioned as ministers.
They did not even function as ministers of their respective constituencies, they have been saying while tearing into them and the Chief Minister and adding these ministers "visit" their respective constituencies "at the time of election only" and this resulted in a comprehensive defeat of the party. Obviously, they didn't spare Omar Abdullah, who could get majority of votes for his father even from his own Ganderbal assembly constituency. The PDp candidate led in this assembly segment.
On Tuesday, when the NC leadership was examining the causes leading to the destruction and defeat of the party in the Lok Sabha elections, some of the rattled, alarmed and frustrated NC leaders openly questioned the leadership of Omar Abdullah and asserted that that there was but one way in which the party could be saved and that is by handing over the leadership of the party to Farooq Abdullah and fighting the upcoming assembly elections under the leadership of Farooq Abdullah, who suffered a massive defeat in Srinagar Lok Sabha constituency at the hands of PDP candidate Tariq Hamid Qarra. Farooq Abdullah lost the election for the first time. This was clearly a vote of no-confidence in Omar Abdullah. The review meeting was held at the party headquarters in Srinagar.
As for political commentators, there is consensus among them that "Rahul Gandhi, Akhilesh Singh Yadav and Omar Abdullah are just incapable and they are competent only ruin their parties". The suggestion appears well-founded when viewed in the light of the fact that the Congress, the SP and the NC suffered the most ignominious defeat in their electoral history. For example, the Congress won only 44 seats, the SP only five (Mulayam Singh Yadav won from two constituencies, his daughter-in-law from one and his nephews from two constituencies) and the NC drew a blank. Indeed, the foreign-trained Rahul Gandhi, Akhilesh Singh and Omar Abdullah on whom the leadership was imposed have rendered their respective organizations ineffective and unreal for all practical purposes. None of these parties today is in a position to play any role in the country's politics and it has all happened because Rahul Gandhi, Akhilesh Yadav and Omar Abdullah had no mass experience. It is difficult to say that the demoralized and defeated Farooq Abdullah will be able to restore the political space the NC lost to the PDP in Kashmir. In Jammu and Ladakh, the NC, like the PDP, is virtually non-existent.
It was not only the rattled NC leaders and workers attacked Omar Abdullah and his coterie and their style of functioning. The Congress also on Tuesday launched a scathing attack on Omar Abdullah. JKPCC chief Saif-ud-Din Soz held Omar Abdullah squarely responsible for the defeat of the Congress and the NC candidates. Omar Abdullah and his government were responsible for the defeat of the coalition candidates, he said while talking to the correspondent of an English language daily. It is, however, a different story that he didn't say that the Congress was also an integral part of the Omar Abdullah's government. Any way, the fact is that Omar Abdullah is at the receiving end and he himself is responsible for this situation that only shows that the NC is doomed. |
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