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| Congress, NC warming up to alliance | | Azad praises NC, says alliances in larger interests are always welcome | |
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Jammu, July 19: In a silently shaping up political development which may take off the peace of Peoples Democratic Party, the major ruling coalition partner Congress and the main opposition party the National Conference are coming closer to the extent that Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has dropped clear signal of a "possible alliance".
The hostile attitude of the Peoples Democratic Party and timely decision of former Chief Minister Dr Farooq Abdullah to not run for Vice Presidential post and instead vote for the UPA's presidential candidate seems to have paid off for the National Conference. The Congress and the National Conference are coming so close to each other that an alliance in the forthcoming elections or joining of hands in the event of Peoples Democratic Party from the government is not ruled out.
In a clear indication of this growing acceptability for each other, Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad today poured his heart out in praise of National Conference and went saying to the extent that any alliance that goes in the interest of the state and country is always welcome.
He welcomed the decision of National Conference to vote for UPA candidate for President's post, Pratibha Patil, saying it showed the wisdom of the State's major opposition party. After casting his vote for the Presidential elections, he told the media persons that National Conference had rightly realized not to make the President's post a matter of controversy.
On being asked as how he felt on NC joining the Congress on this issue, the Chief Minister said it was always nice if all parties joined together for a good cause. He said even as the parties had different points of view and functioned independent of each other it was important to work in tandem for the interest of the country and the State.
When asked if he saw the NC-Congress unity on Presidential polls going any further, the Chief Minister said, "Whatever is in the interest of the State and the country, the more we do it, the better".
When his attention was drawn to the NC President's claim that he was in possession of a list of corrupt politicians and would hand it over to the Chief minister if asked, Azad replied, "Nobody needs to hand over the list to me". He said there were statutory bodies like the Accountability Commission and Vigilance Organisation to deal with cases of corruption of politicians and government officials, respectively and if anybody had a list of corrupt persons he should get in touch with the respective organization.
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