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| CM's decision to quit Ganderbal a bad omen for NC | | Level of unpopularity | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 1: The ruling NC's poll managers on Friday had finally committed a grave political blunder by making the party's working president and J&K CM Omar Abdullah to quit the Abdullah family's pocket borough, Ganderbal, and seek election from two other constituencies - Sonawar and Beerwah. It was an unwise political decision, as it sent a message across the state in general and Kashmir valley in particular that Omar Abdullah, if asked to seek re-election from Ganderbal, would suffer a massive defeat.
The "politically and strategically unwise decision" only vindicated those who had been saying again and gain that Omar Abdullah had turned extremely unpopular because of his various acts of omission and commission and utter failure to lead the state and measure up to the expectations even of the people of his own constituency.
No one would buy the argument that Omar Abdullah was shifted to other constituencies because they had to accommodate Sheikh Ishfaq Jabbar. The Abdullah family is not known for accommodating people. For, it has all through considered Kashmir as their personal estate and the people as their subjects.
"How could a leader who was not sure of his own victory in a constituency which Sheikh Abdullah, Farooq Abdullah and he himself represented for almost three decades lead the party in the upcoming assembly elections" is the question most political pundits have asked and it is a very valid question. It needs to be noted that on Friday the party not only announced the candidature of Omar Abdullah but also constituted an election campaign committee with Omar Abdullah as its head.
"The decision of Omar Abdullah to contest from Sonawar and Beerwah and quit the Ganderbal constituency he at present represents would prove a last nail in the coffin of the NC," said some serious Kashmir-watchers and political commentators, adding that the "decision would demoralize all others in the party and seal the party's fate for ever". "The PDP and the BJP, which has little presence in the Valley and hoping to open its account in Kashmir for the first time, would surely make the NC's decision to field Omar Abdullah from two new constituencies as their election plank and it would damage the poll prospects of the NC in the Valley," they have also opined. There is logic in what they have said and opined. |
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