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| Acid Test For Ruling Coalition | | Presidential polls, LC Chairman election to verify strength | |
MUNISH GUPTA
Jammu, July 13: With three important occasions falling as a hat-trick –two day session of state legislature, Presidential elections and Legislative Council Chairman's elections –the third week of July is most crucial to the future prospects and stability of the coalition government as three events demand cohesiveness between major partners Peoples Democratic Party and the Congress.
During these three events, if the partners yield desired space to each other and put a united from on the crucial issues, the indications will be sufficient that the Peoples Democratic Party and the Congress have been able to tide over the crises. However, if they continue to be dragged in the opposite directions, chances of which are very least, then fall of government in near future is imminent.
As EARLY TIMES had already reported that the Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad and his predecessor Mufti Mohammad Sayeed are under pressure from the Congress president Sonia Gandhi to sink their differences and move together in the next elections, the polls for the President of India as also the elections for the post of the Chairman of the Legislative Council will prove as how much bitterness the two leaders have been able to eschew.
Sources said that with active blessings of the Congress president Sonia Gandhi, the coalition partners are most likely to evolve a consensus on the candidature of the Chairman of the Legislative Council. Till now the probable name from Congress and the PDP have been Mohammad Sharief Niaz and Ghulam Nabi Hanjoora, respectively.
If consensus evolves, it is either Niaz or Hanjoora but there will be no power tussle. Either of them will be the consensus candidate of the ruling coalition. Sources said that the Peoples Democratic Party has done an extensive lobbying in New Delhi to have its candidate installed as Chairman of the Legislative Council.
A PDP leader told EARLY TIMES, "our case is strong". Justifying his party's claim, he said, the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly is from the Congress party and therefore going by conventions of the coalition the Chairman of the Legislative Council should by from the PDP. He confirmed that the party has zeroed in on the name of Ghulam Nabi Hanjoora.
Hanjoora, it may be mentioned here, represents central Kashmir district of Budgam and had contested the 2002 elections against the National Conference stalwart Abdul Rahim Rather from Char-e-Sharief constituency.
The Opposition National Conference is yet to finalise its candidate for the post of the Chairman of the Legislative Council. Sources said that the top National Conference leaders are likely to meet in next few days under the leadership of Dr Farooq Abdullah and Omar Abdullah to finalise their candidate for the contest.
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