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| As LA polls draw closer, Omar grows restless | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Aug 31: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah who is held responsible by his own party for the debacle in the Parliamentary elections is now taking shield in the poll boycott for the prospective defeat, despite the fact that his Government had been accused of taking recourse to boycott politics in the parliamentary elections, though it didn't rescue it.
There was violence and poll boycott in the LS polls in the constituencies represented by the PDP in the Assembly and also where it was expected to make a good show.
It was because of this growing concern, the PDP patron, according to a national newspaper, had personally telephoned the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh seeking his personal intervention in the matter.
The report said it was only after the intervention of the PM that state police was asked to ensure free and fair elections and the results went against the NC.
Poll boycott is not a new phenomenon in Kashmir and the fact is that NC had not only supported or engineered it but had in fact benefited from it till now.
However, this time NC and more particularly Omar Abdullah sees and senses that even if there is boycott the party is not going to do well. Another reason is that Omar is also worried about the growing clout of the BJP not only in the Jammu region but also in the Kashmir.
The BJP thinking is that it can get seats in the areas from Kashmir where Kashmiri Pandits had sizeable population. And the party is also in contact with some parties and influential political persons there.
There is a thinking in the NC camp that its tactics could not work anymore since the Centre had already decided to have free and fair elections in the State in a manner they were held in 2002 when Vajpayee was the Prime Minister and it resulted in the defeat of the NC and the emergence of the PDP as strong challenger to it and which eventually had wiped it out from the Kashmir atleast the Parliamentary elections had proved that way. |
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