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| NC could play the role of Congress | | Roles reversed | | Rustam
Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 26: The inning of the Congress in Jammu & Kashmir appears to be over. It doesn't have the required numbers to play the games it played in 2002 and 2008 and enjoyed the loaves and fishes of office. The pre-poll assertions of the senior Congress leaders that no government in the state would be formed in 2015 without the support or participation of the Congress has turned out to be hollow, notwithstanding the fact that Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad on Thursday had virtually sought to persuade the PDP, the single largest party in the Assembly, and its former ally, the Congress, to give up the idea of working with the "communal" BJP and forming a "grand alliance" comprising the PDP, NC and the Congress.
It is difficult to say that the NC, which is known for its insatiable lust for power and changing sides to remain in power, would endorse the canny suggestion of Azad. The reason is that the Congress has become irrelevant in the country to the extent that it is unlikely to revive in the foreseeable future given the kind of leadership it has both at the national and state levels. Moreover, the NC, which cares more for power than its so-called ideology, has come to believe that the BJP is going to rule the country for many years and given everyone to understand that it would not mind working with it. Reports are already there that it has not been inspired by the suggestion of Azad and that talks between the NC leaders and top BJP leaders are going on behind the scene. So much so, even Omar Abdullah, who suffered a defeat in one constituency and won from another by a narrow margin of a little over 900 votes, on Thursday publicly stated that he was willing to work with the BJP.
It's not only the NC which has hinted at the possibility of it and the BJP working together in the state. The PDP leadership too has hinted that it would also willing to work with the BJP subject to the condition the BJP helps it further its political agenda. Both the PDP and the NC are working hard to stitch an alliance with the ruling BJP considering the fact that the state needs funds and only a friendly government at the Centre could ensure free flow of central funds.
The fact of the matter is that the NC today is in a position the Congress was in 2002 and 2008. The government has to be in place in January and it could be either a coalition government of the PDP and the BJP or it could be a coalition government of the BJP and the NC. The Congress would be nowhere in the picture and Azad is unlikely to garner support in the state to again become a member of the Rajya Sabha from Jammu & Kashmir in February 2015. It is extremely likely that NC would replace the Congress and Omar Abdullah would replace Azad. The roles in the state have been reversed. |
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