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Sensing defeat of Cong in J&K, Azad eyeing Rajya Sabha seat in Uttarakhand Uncertain political future 10/29/2014 11:51:20 PM Neha JAMMU, Oct 29: Former J&K CM and currently Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad, who was trounced by Jitendra Singh in the Lok Sabha election, is feeling the heat. He has, it seems, realized that the Congress has no future in J&K and that its defeat in the assembly elections is imminent. It's true that he, like the JKPCC president Saif-ud-Din Soz, has been asserting and reasserting day-in-and-day-out that the Congress would emerge as the single largest party in the state and would be a kingmaker like it was in 2002 and 2008, but he in his heart of hearts has realized that an anti-Congress and anti-NC wave is sweeping the state. Only last week, he had said that the Congress was paying the price of unpopularity because it allied itself with the NC and that the NC-Congress government in the state had lost the people's confidence. It was an open admission that anti-incumbency would play a crucial role in the assembly election and seal the fate of the ruling coalition. That he has come to believe that the chances of the Congress in the assembly elections in the state are bleak and that he is feeling jittery and uncertain can be seen from the fact that he is eyeing a Rajya Sabha seat in Uttrakhand. There is the possibility of one Rajya Sabha seat from Uttarakhand in November. A report has suggested that Azad has been eying it. The very fact that he is trying to grab the Rajya Sabha seat from Uttarakhand established beyond any shadow of doubt that defeat of the Congress in the state is a foregone conclusion. This report must have dampened the spirit of the already demoralized Congressmen in the state.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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