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| Camaraderie missing in coalition partners with respect to timing of Assembly elections | | NC wants deferment of elections, Congress wants polls to be held on time | | Jehangir Rashid
SRINAGAR, Oct 9: After failing to provide relief to the flood affected people of the state coalition partners National Conference and Congress are on separate pages with regard to the holding of next Assembly elections in the state.
While National Conference leaders believe that time is not ripe for the holding of Assembly elections their counterparts in Congress opine differently. The Congress leaders hold the view that there is no reason for the Election Commission of India to postpone the Assembly elections even if for few months.
During their meeting with Election Commissioner, Vinod Zutshi here today, National Conference leaders said that priority should be given to relief and rehabilitation measures for the flood affected people of Jammu and Kashmir. The leaders, as such sought deferment of Assembly elections.
"Time is not ripe for holding elections as the atmosphere is not congenial due to devastation caused by floods and the trauma and shock the people are in," said a three-member delegation of National Conference led by General Secretary Ali Mohammad Sagar. Sagar was accompanied by Devinder Singh Rana and Nasir Aslam Wani, provincial presidents of the party for Jammu and Kashmir divisions respectively.
The reason put forward by the NC leaders for the deferment of elections seems to be fine, but when the things are analyzed in proper manner one is forced to go into the finer details. The party leaders should have the courage to accept that they failed to provide succour to the flood hit people.
It seems that Sagar and company have forgotten that their party along with Congress is in power in state and they could have easily come to the rescue of the flood affected people. Some of the Ministers continue to be oblivion and this poses a serious question on the efficacy of the coalition Government.
Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah who is also the working president of National Conference has utterly failed to deliver goods on the ground. It is more than a month now that Omar announced that Rs. 75,000 each would be paid as interim relief to the flood hit families in the state. Up to this moment of time the announcement has remained an announcement with no action on the ground.
On the other hand, National Conference's coalition partner Congress has already made it clear to the Election Commissioner that Assembly elections should be held on time. The Congress leaders during their meeting with Zutshi at Jammu the other day said that there is no reason to reschedule the Assembly elections.
Congress leaders Thakur Hari Singh and Janak Raj Gupta made their party's stand clear on the holding of elections to the state Assembly to the Election Commissioner during their meeting. The Congress leaders suggested that election process and rehabilitation operation should go simultaneously in the state.
This is not for the first time that Congress and National Conference have differed on some issue. The leaders of both these parties have been at loggerheads in the past as well with the working of coalition Government taking a serious hit at times. Differences over the timing of Assembly elections add to the list of confusion between the two parties.
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