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| LS results impact Cong decision making | | Eludes consensus on its probable candidates | | Early Times Report
srinagar, June 28: After tasting defeat in the just concluded Lok Sabha polls, the upcoming Assembly elections have become a matter of survival for the Congress party in Jammu division. The party is yet to evolve a consensus on probable candidates for various constituencies of Jammu division.
Reliable sources revealed that the Pradesh Congress leadership is holding hectic deliberations on the winning capabilities of its various aspirants particularly in constituencies where it has been drubbed by the BJP in Lok Sabha elections recently. Sources said that in the race for upcoming Assembly elections, the party will repeat its sitting MLAs while as in Jammu East the party is yet to decide between Vikram Malhotra party general secretary and Yogesh Sahni former MLA. In Jammu West the party is in dilemma about the winning chances of Madan Lal Sharma, Manmohan Singh, Vinod Sharma and Rajesh Mian son of former Deputy Chief Minister Mangat Ram Sharma.
Similarly, the party sources revealed that the PCC leadership is yet to decide about its probable candidates for Marh constituency where the party is weighing its options between Indu Pawar and Balwant Singh. Sources said that in Suchetgarh the aspirants for the party mandate are Gourav Ram former Minister and RS Chib former Medical Education Minister.
Similarly, in RS Pura, the party is yet to decide between Suman Bhagat former Minister and BR Kundal MLC and former Chief Secretary of the state. In Bishnah the aspirants for the upcoming Assembly polls comprise of GS Charak former Minister and Shashi Sharma. In Nagrota the party is to take a final call on Shiv Dev Singh. In Gandhi Nagar the sources in the party said that Raman Bhalla has more chances to be repeated for the upcoming Assembly polls while as Sham Lal Sharma will be contesting from his present constituency Akhnoor and Tara Chand will be fielded again from his constituency Khor.
Ravinder Kumar Sharma, spokesman of the party said: "We will follow a set procedure and there will be no rate race in Congress. We are not going to follow other parties. Besides party is confident of achieving majority in the state and the so called Modi wave which does not exist anywhere has no impact in Jammu. The Assembly elections are entirely different and the people asks their local MLAs about their performance and the people also vote taking all local factors into consideration." Sharma added that people in Jammu region know about the failures of BJP MLAs who were elected last time. "This time the people will decide about their representatives very carefully and no wave will help the BJP MLAs," he added. |
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