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| It's misnomer to term NC a regional party | | Party of localities | | Neha
Jammu, July 1: The leadership of the comprehensively defeated NC is making loud noises and asserting that the NC would form the next Government in the state on its own, as it has the required organizational machinery at its disposal and effective leadership that has the ability to inspire confidence among party cadres and turn tables on its political rivals, particularly the PDP in Kashmir and BJP in Jammu. It is obvious that the NC leadership has lost touch with the masses and blissfully ignorant about the prevailing political environment in the state.
The NC leadership says that the party has its support-base speard across the state. No, it says that NC is the only party that has a strong, stable and tested support-base not only in Kashmir but also in Jammu and Ladakh and that it is this support-base that would ensure its victory under the leadership of Omar Abdullah. Interestingly, Omar Abdullah is reportedly looking for a safer constituency in the Valley convinced that Ganderbal could prove a waterloo for him. He has representing this constituency in the Assembly for more than five years and six months. Reports from Kashmir suggest that Omar Abdullah could contest election from Hazratbal Assembly constituency. The claim of the NC that it is a regional party of the state is tall.
It is not a regional party of the state in the real sense of the term. It lost its regional character in 2004, when it entered into pre-poll alliance with the Congress and restricted its area of political and communal activities to Kashmir. According to the seat-sharing formula, the NC contested election from the three Kashmir seats and the Congress from two Jammu seats and one Ladakh seats. The seat-sharing formula reached between the two parties was a proof that the NC was disliked by the people of Jammu and Ladakh and the Congress's position in Kashmir was also identical. Significantly, the NC against entered into a pre-poll alliance with the Congress in 2014, but, unlike 2009, both the parties lost all the seats they contested, thus once again establishing that the NC is not a regional party.
The truth is that the NC is not a party that has its say even in Kashmir Valley. The voting pattern in Kashmir in the just-held Lok Sabha election in the Valley clearly suggested so. It was the PDP that led in more than 35 out of a total of 46 Assembly segments. As for the NC, it could lead only in less than 10 Assembly segments, thus establishing that the NC is a party only of a few localities in the Kashmir Valley. But the NC leadership will not look all these facts in the face. It is quite clear from the statements and speeches being made by the NC leadership. |
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