| Fortnight after debacle, no heads roll in State Congress | | Voices of dissent rise against several Ministers | | Mustansir
Srinagar, June1; Following the poll debacle, serious fissures have erupted in state unit of Congress party and like at centre, the Jammu and Kashmir congress is also undergoing serious organizational crisis. If the party insiders are to be believed, the Jammu congress leaders including some ministers in the coalition government are up in arms against the leadership of both former chief minister, Ghulam Nabi Azad and PCC president, Professor Saifuddin Soz.
Insiders say that while ignoring the very fact that Rahul Gandhi could not impress the people in the country and that it was the Narender Modi factor which lead to the drubbing of the congress party in the poll battle, congress leaders in the state have been blaming either Ghulam Nabi Azad (who himself lost the elections) or Soz for the poll debacle.
Insiders maintain that though the leaders behind closed doors, J&K Congress leaders are criticizing Azad and Soz, however, feelers are being sent that organizational revamp was imperative from top to bottom.
Meanwhile Infighting has broken out in Kashmir Congress after the dismal performance of its strongmen, Ghulam Ahmad Mir, Peerzada Muhammad Sayed and Taj Mohiuddin-the only three MLAs from Kashmir valley-in Lok Sabha polls. A section of the Congress leaders wants these MLAs removed from the state Cabinet. Like Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, Delhi, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Jharkhand and Uttarakhand where the congress has won not even a single Lok sabha seat , the blame game in Jammu and Kashmir has become intense.
"There is, of course, certain degree of dissatisfaction and disappointment among the workers of both Congress and National Conference viz-a-viz their respective leadership but it is not so intense" a senior political observer told Early Times. "Not a single head has rolled within the Congress, either in Delhi or in the states. The party's high command is yet to take decisions on fixing accountability. Several state Congress units have started taking stock of what went wrong, sensing the unease among party workers" the observer said. |
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