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| BJP & PDP favour striking the iron when it is hot | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, May 24: If left to the PDP and the BJP,the two winning horses in the just concluded Lok Sabha poll in Jammu and Kashmir,they would favour early Assembly election in the state.The PDP and the BJP would support the Assembly election getting preponed on the plea that the atmosphere in the state was in their favour.
While the BJP won all the three seats in the regions of Jammu and Ladakh,the PDP bagged the three seats in the Kashmir valley forcing the NC and the Congress to get mauled.Yes the leaders of the two parties believe that when the iron is hot it is time to strike it.
Political pundits do not foresee any permanency in the pro and anti-waves .Mood of the people,to be specific of the voters,change faster than the colours on the kaleidoscope.They refer to Assembly polls held in the state in 1977 and 1983.In 1977 the Janata Party had made its entry into the state with a bang and contested a large number of seats in Jammu and Kashmir.In the Kashmir valley the Janata Party had won two seats and in the Jammu region about 11 seats out of 32.The National Conference had mauled the Janata Party in he three regions.
And the same sangh parivaar,which had won more than 11 seats in the Jammu region,had been decimated in the 1983 Assembly election by the Congress and the NC that had contested the election separately. This indicated that the mood of voters keeps on changing.It keeps on fluctuating.If the Congbress led by Indira Gandhi was defeated in 1977 Lok Sabha election by the Janata Party the same Congress registered a phoenix like rise from the ashes in 1980 Lok Sabha election.
However,the PDP and the BJP leaders are not prepared to buy this theory.They say that the voters mood changed from 1977 to 1983 Assembly election because the poll was held after a gap of six years.Similarly if at the national level the Congress rose from the 1977 ashes it was only after a gap of three years.Three years too is a long gap and that too when the Janata Party failed to put up a united face.
In Jammu and Kashmir the next Assembly election is due towards the end of the current year.
This way between six and seven months are left for the election and during these months voters mood may not suffer any major variation.Hence the BJP leaders believe that the party may win more than 15 to 20 seats in the Jammu region and the PDP leaders are optimistic on bagging between 28 and 35 seats in all the three regions in the state.
The PDP's hope of winning more than five seats in the Jammu region is the outcome of the total votes its candidates polled in Jammu and Udhampur Lok Sabha constituencies.
Against this,the mood in the NC and the Congress camps is depressed.Had it not been the case Omar would have resigned and opted for early Assembly election.And had the congress won at least two out of three seats it would have egged Omar Abdullah for going in for early Assembly election.
Bot the NC and the Congress leadership wants to have the Assembly poll as per the schedule so that the ruling coalition could improve the governance and implement various people friendly schemes.If a beginning is made in tackling the problem of unemployment and energy shortage voters mood is bound to swing in favour of the Congress and the NC.But six months is too short a time for the ruling coalition to peformany miracle.But the Congress has one satisfaction.It foresees a hung House in the Assembly poll and if that happens the Congress can have its choice to share power either with the PDP or with the NC. |
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