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| Pompous Cong fails to learn the lessons; leadership flaunts its indispensability | | | Abodh Sharma
Jammu, June 13: Reduced to an embarrassing 44 seats in the entire country, the thick skinned Congress seems to have learnt no lessons as the state unit of the party is still complacent about its indispensability on the state's political stage. Statements from its senior leadership that no Government can be formed in Jammu and Kashmir without Congress are indicative of the fact that the party has not shed its smugness despite unprecedented rout.
Fate that the grand old party of the country met in the recent Parliamentary elections should have taught numerous lessons to its pompous leadership, but if the statements of its leaders are any reflection, the party has yet to come to terms with the power of electorate. Senior national leadership of the Congress has confessed post poll debacle that it had not comprehended the rout and was contemplating to cling on to power with the help of its former and current UPA allies. During the polls, when mood of the country had become evidently clear, Congress offered outside support to the elusive third front for making the next Government in the centre, but the results shocked the rank and file to the core. Today, the Congress has been relegated to a condition where it is begging from the BJP for a leader of the opposition status for its leader in Lok Sabha.
The situation in the state has not been any different the coalition lost all the six seats it contested and Congress lost comprehensively just as its pre poll ally NC did. Though the coalition partners have denied any pre poll commitments, yet the popular mood continues to be against them despite several populist measures announced by the Government recently. Despite realizing their wrong doings during their last five years in power, the corrective measures are being seen as 'too little too late' and gravely insufficient to make the amends.
Even though both NC and Congress are not oblivious of their electoral prospects in the Assembly elections in a few months from now, yet the statements of Congress leadership are not only exhibiting their complacency, they are also indicative of the fact that they have not stopped taking electorate for granted- a miss that could prove very costly to it in the Assembly elections too. |
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