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| Fearing defeat in Jammu, Congress eyes on Kashmir for electoral fortunes | | | Bashir Assad
SRINAGAR, Nov 1: While conceding defeat much before the elections, Congress party has shifted its focus on Kashmir valley. The Congress had won 13 out of 17 seats in the last assembly elections.
Though it is facing anti-incumbency in Kashmir valley too, perhaps bigger than its size, Congress still focuses on valley to improve its tally from present three to at least seven. However, the political observers attribute Congress party adventurism to its frustration that has gripped the party due to Modi wave in Jammu.
In any case, the grand old national party, somehow wants to improve its tally in Kashmir which could compensate its prospective loses in Jammu region." We are hopeful of doing well in the Kashmir region," said Tourism Minister, GA Mir who represents Dooru constituency in the current legislature.
It merits a mention here that the party had won three seats from Valley in the last assembly elections, where it's votes were vertically divided between PDP and NC. However, in the recently Held parliamentary elections the party on one side all the three seats it contested to BJP in Jammu and Ladakh, it suffered huge setback in Dooru, Kokernag constituencies while as the lead in Uri constituency represented by Taj Mohiuddin was marginal.
Before the parliamentary elections, the party was hopeful of emerging as the single largest party but the Modi wave dashed all its hopes. Now the party fears whether it could enter into double figures in the elections starting from Nov 23.
"We had been concentrating in Kashmir for the last six years. But our real prospects improved after floods, as both NC and PDP we're missing on ground. There is public anger against them," said a senior Congress leader.
He said both Ghulam Nabi Azad and Prof Saif-ud-Din Soz were camping in Kashmir during floods and also brought relief from the other parts of the country due to which the party has earned goodwill among the people in Kashmir, said the leader. |
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