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| Tacit understanding between NC, APHC (M) for election? | | Desperate attempts | | Rustam
JAMMU, July 9: The NC, which suffered a massive defeat in the just-held Lok Sabha elections, is trying its level best to cultivate certain groups and individuals who could help it face the challenge being posed to it by the PDP and bounce back in the Assembly elections. Its main rival in Kashmir is the PDP and it wants to controvert its growing influence through alliances with the Congress as well as separatists believing, and rightly, that it cannot take on the PDP single-handedly. There are reasons to believe that the NC has reached a tacit understanding with the APHC (M) in its desperate bid to put up some respectable show in the coming Assembly elections. (insiders say that it would be a great victory if the NC crosses the double-digit number.
That the NC and the APHC (M) have reached some sort of tacit understanding against the PDP and that the APHC (M) could support the NC in the coming Assembly elections became somewhat clear on Sunday, when an important development took place in Kashmir.
That day, six close associates of Mirwaiz Umar Farooq formally joined the NC and their joining the NC was confirmed by the NC additional general secretary. Mustafa Kamaal said that the entry of six close associates of Mirwaiz into the NC established that the NC's autonomy agenda was the best agenda and that their joining the NC would help it in the coming Assembly elections.
The NC would become stronger with the joining of Hurriyat leaders, he said, and added that those who had written a political obituary of the NC after its defeat in the Lok Sabha election were proved wrong by this development. He also asserted that the NC would come out victorious in it.
Those who joined the NC included Mohammad Ramzan Bohru, Ghulam Nabi Drabu, Mohammad Rafiq, Manzoor Ahmad Sohail, Abdul Rashid Bhat and Tariq Ahmad and the man who acted as an intermediary between the NC and the Hurriyat activists was Sajjad Shahin of the NC. Hurriyat activist Mohammad Ramzan, like Mustafa Kamaal, also said that the state must become autonomous.
The development that unfolded on Sunday or the entry of six Hurriyat activists into the NC and the language that Mustafa Kamaal and Mohammad Ramzan used that day could be taken to mean a sort of tacit understanding between the NC leadership and the Mirwaiz's outfit. It also shows that the NC leadership could go to any extent to unset the PDP's applecart in Kashmir. It is a different story that the PDP has gained ground in Kashmir and is likely to perform well in the Valley.
The situation as it exists today in the Valley clearly indicates that the PDP would improve its position in the coming assembly elections. |
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