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| NC leadership may delay supporting BJP Govt in Centre | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, May 27: Will the National Conference, which shares power with the Congress in Jammu and Kashmir, try to narrow down the wedge with the Modi led NDA Government?
This question has assumed significance following good wishes sent by Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah, to Modi while the latter took over as 15th Prime Minister of India on Monday. Omar Abdullah wished "the very best" to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his team and hoped that they will hand over a better India to their successors when the time comes.
"For what it's worth, I wish Team Modi the very best as they embark on a journey to govern India for the next five years," Omar, who attended Modi's swearing-in ceremony, wrote on micro-blogging site twitter.com.
Though the NC leadership, particularly, Dr Farooq Abdullah, has been eager to maintain friendly relations with the party or the parties that are in power in the centre in order to ensure stability for the state government.
Farooq Abdullah had come to this view after his duly government was dislodged through defections engineered by the Congress government in the centre in 1984. After that Dr Abdullah forged an accord with Rajiv Gandhi in 1986 and contested the 1987 Assembly election in alliance with the Congress. In 1999, the National Conference had no hesitation in supporting the BJP led NDA Government in the centre. And Omar Abdullah was inducted in the council of ministers headed by Atal Behari Vajpayee.
Though in 2002 the Congress high command had forged an alliance with the PDP to share power in Jammu and Kashmir the NC leadership used to fulminate against the PDP but not against the Congress. This indicated that the NC leadership did not want to annoy the Congress high command. This time the NC leadership may not befriend the BJP led NDA Government in the centre beyond reasonable limits.
This is because of the impending Assembly election. In the Lok Sabha election the NC had lost all the three seats in the Kashmir valley that it had contested and one of the factors responsible was peoples' anger against sharing power with the Congress. In the valley Congress is not as much a red rag to the bull as the BJP is.
Hence Omar and Dr Farooq may not risk the electoral fortune of the National Conference in the ensuing Assembly poll by going close to Modi. It may opt for maintaining some distance wikth the BJP led NDA Government till the Assembly poll was over.
It knows it fully well that its main political foe in the valley, the PDP, may exploit the NC's hobnobbing with the BJP led NDA Government. |
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