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| Congress to be allowed to contest Assembly polls on its own in J&K | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, June 25: If latest reports emanating from New Delhi are any guide the Congress high command is to accept the idea of the leadership of the state unit of the Congress favouring going alone in the ensuing Assembly poll in Jammu and Kashmir.
Party sources said that the Congress high command has been left with no other option except for allowing its state unit to contest the Assembly poll without forging any pre-poll alliance either with the NC or with the PDP.
Sources said that since both factions of the state unit of the Congress, one led by Saif-ud-Din Soz and the other by Ghulam Nabi Azad are opposed to enter into any pre-poll alliance with the NC, with which it has been sharing power for over five years, the party high command is said to have accepted the idea. Reports said that since Ghulam Nabi Azad is not keen on going to the battle of the ballot in alliance with the NC the party high command has given weightage to his suggestion.
According to these reports, leaders of both factions of the Congress in Jammu and Kashmir have conveyed to the party high command that fighting the ensuing Assembly poll in alliance with the NC could prove counterproductive, especially in the region of Jammu where the Congress has its strong vote bank allowing it to win between 14 and 17 seats in the two previous elections. These reports said that leaders of the state unit of the Congress have also conveyed to the party high command that the drubbing Congress received from voters in the three Lok Sabha constituencies in Jammu and Ladakh regions was the result of pre-poll alliance the Congress had forged with the NC.These state unit leaders have informed Ambika Soni that if the Congress contested the Assembly election on its own it will keep the option of forming the Government either with the NC or with the PDP open. Sources said that majority of leaders of the state unit of the Congress believe that the ensuing election may throw up a high House warranting formation of a coalition Government in which the Congress had to play a vital role. |
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