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| Would NC and Congress try to be mutually self-destructive in Assembly elections? | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Nov 3: As the election scene picks up tempo in the State political permutations and combinations are also undergoing a churning of sorts.
Friends of yesterday have suddenly become foes of today and vice versa. Some people have been given mandates in certain cases a day after they joined the party and others have been denied mandates even after decades of loyalties to some political parties.
In politics there are no permanent friends and enemies. What matters to political bosses is who wins or who loses irrespective of the candidates past, present or even the future.
Across the board political parties have this singular peculiar where expediency guides every move. The BJP has dumped all its seven sitting MLAs in the list of 45 that was released for J&K Assembly elections. The Congress has given mandates to bitter opponents of yesterday and the NC has been publicly cursing the Congress for its failure to do better during the six years the two ruled the State in alliance with each other.
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah says he loves people of every Assembly constituency and will continue to work for the people of Ganderbal even when he decides not to seek re-election from there this time.
Nobody is so naive not to understand that it was not the love for every constituency but the fear of defeat that prompted Omar Abdullah to dump Ganderbal. Whether he is sure of victory in Beerwah and Sonwar or not does not matter once he believes his defeat was imminent in Ganderbal.
For other parties also it is victory in areas of influence and defeat of the adversaries in places where these parties have a marginal influence.
This is true of every single political party going into elections in the State. The Congress and the NC after having been in the driver's seat for six years are fielding candidates against each other not just to win those seats, but often to ensure the defeat of the party among them that has better chances to win a certain seats.
At least 20 seats are clearly being fought by the NC and the Congress individually to defeat the one who has some chance of victory in that seat. That there is no love lost between the two became clear when the NC ridiculed Ghulam Nabi Azad's statement that giving six years to Omar Abdullah as the CM had cost the Congress very badly. In a recent TV interview the CM has lambasted the Congress for literally paralyzing the function of the coalition Government during the period of their six year long coalition in the Government.
These are the realities of politics those occur when things become hot for the political bosses. No friendship, no relationship, no proximity is worth anything if it results in creating distance between a politician and power. Unfortunately for the politicians, this basic reality of J&K's politics is now too well known to the voters. |
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