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| Congress paying price of unpopularity, says Azad | | 2002 power-sharing formula | | Neha
JAMMU, Oct 26: Former J&K Chief Minister and presently Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha, Ghulam Nabi Azad, who himself suffered the worst-ever defeat in his long political career in the last Lok Sabha elections at the hands of the BJP candidate in the Kathua-Udhampur-Doda constituency, has launched the biggest-ever attack on the NC-Congress coalition government in general and NC in particular. Without mincing words he had on Saturday said that the Congress is paying the price of unpopularity because of its alliance with the NC and the present government has lost the people's confidence.
While launching the blistering attack, he completely overlooked the fact that the party to which he belongs was the most important constituent of the government. It was the Congress which gave the NC the fullest possible support ignoring the latter's grave provocations, including its attacks on the Nehru Gandhi family as well as Rahul Gandhi. Had the Congress exercised its authority and asserted its position when it was required the most, the NC would have lost the political power years ago, but it was not to be.
It swallowed all the humiliations, taunts and attacks on New Delhi, the Nehru-Gandhi family and JKPCC president Saif-ud-Din Soz and allowed Omar Abdullah and the NC to cause irreparable damage to the Congress.
Azad not only lambasted the NC, the state government and blamed the NC responsible for the unpopularity of the Congress party, but also regretted that the Congress allowed Omar Abdullah to rule the state for a full term of six years. We should have insisted on the 2002 power-sharing formula reached between the Congress and the PDP, he said, adding that things in Jammu & Kashmir for the Congress would have been somewhat promising had the Congress not allowed Omar Abdullah to continue to hold the office of Chief Minister after January 4, 2012, when he completed three years in office. It is obvious that he was critical of the Congress high command which, according to him, only harmed the long-term interests of the Congress party. It appears the Congress is thinking in terms of forging a post-poll alliance with the PDP.
What Azad said was politically correct, but it's no use airing the anti-NC and anti-Omar Abdullah views when the Congress has already missed the bus. The Congress had a sound tried and tested constituency in Jammu with whose help it enjoyed power for 12 long years, but it bartered the interests of its own constituency by dancing to the tunes of the Kashmiri leadership and in the process lost its support-base. The fact of the matter is that it not only lost its face in Jammu by hobnobbing with the Kashmir-centric parties, but also in Ladakh where the Kashmiri-led Congress forced the Ladakhis to drop their demand for Union Territory like the Congress made common cause with separatists and NC leadership and withdrew the order under which the Dogra youth were to obtain Dogra certificates to enjoy a few paltry concessions. |
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