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| NC shows thumb to Cong | | PDP overrules tie-up with NC | | Rustam
JAMMU, Jan 2: The NC, which suffered the worst-ever defeat in the assembly elections and won only 15 seats, on Monday evening again showed thumb to its former ally, the Congress, and said that it had not offered and will not offer support to the Congress. "We have offered unconditional support to the PDP because it is a regional party. We are opposed to a tie-up either with the BJP or with the NC as they are national parties opposed to the regional agendas of the NC and the PDP," said a NC spokesperson. It is not difficult to understand why the NC has turned so hostile towards the Congress.
The Congress has won 12 seats and its senior leader Ghulam Nabi Azad has mooted the idea of grand alliance between the PDP, the largest party in the assembly, the NC and the Congress to keep the BJP at bay and "respect" what he called "the Kashmiri sentiments". Interestingly, many Congressmen from Jammu and even JKPCC chief Saif-ud-Din Soz have virtually rejected the suggestion of Azad, as they believe a grand alliance between the PDP, the NC and the Congress will help the BJP extend its support-base in Jammu province and elsewhere in the country.
The PDP has won 28 seats and the BJP 25 and both are talking to each other to explore the possibility of forging an alliance. The leadership of both these parties has met State Governor NN Vohra and sought some more time to form the next government. Both have declared that they would need some more time to reach some kind of agreement with each other, as the fractured verdict has created some serious problems as far as the formation of government in the state is concerned. The PDP has asked the BJP to accept its five conditions - office of CM to PDP for full term, revocation of AFSPA, dialogue with Pakistan, dialogue with Kashmiri separatists and an assurance that no attempt will be made to dilute it - and the BJP has expressed its serious reservations and wants a rotational Chief Minister-ship.
Very significantly, however, the PDP on Monday evening, like the NC on the Monday evening, overruled the possibility of any tie-up with the NC and stated that the PDP was in touch both with the BJP and the Congress. PDP chief spokesperson Nayeem Akhtar said "the PDP is there where it was on December 23", when election results were announced, that its leadership was talking both to the BJP and the Congress and would forge an alliance with that party whose ideology is close to its own ideology and that it will not dilute its stand on its core ideology. The PDP's no to the NC should not surprise anyone in the state, particularly in the Valley. The reason is that the core constituency of both the parties is the same and that if they join hands and form the next government, the PDP would be at the receiving end, as the people would dub the PDP as an opportunist and power-hungry outfit. Akhtar left none in any doubt that the PDP would nit walk into the NC's trap. The situation in the state is quite fluid. The formation of the next government in the state is possible only if the major political players are willing to shun their hard postures, which is unlikely to happen given the nature of the mandate. What is likely to happen is the Governor's rule for a brief period. |
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