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Jammu, July 23
After the truce between the state unit of the Congress and the PDP having been enforced by Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh, the PDP leadership is not averse to entering the next poll, due in September-October 2008, with an understanding with the Congress.
Senior PDP leaders indicated today that the issue of entering the poll battle with an understanding with the Congress will depend on the treatment the party, including the PDP ministers, receive from the Chief Minister.
They also indicated that party may not have an alliance during the the next poll as far as seat sharing with the Congress was concerned but it could have some electoral understanding and adjustment. One of the senior PDP leaders said that even if the Congress and the PDP contest the next election with electoral understanding and adjustment it could affect the National Conference which aims at winning an absolute majority in the Assembly.
However, Panthers Party leader, Harsh Dev Singh said “it is too premature to believe that the arrangement between the Congress and the PDP will continue till the end of the next election.” He said that the two main ruling coalition partners have remained together because of political compulsions and on account of the Congress high command favoring the present arrangement to continue. The truce can be temporary, he added.
Others said that new political equations may develop just before the poll schedule was announced because the BSP is in search of allies for repeating the Uttar Pradesh experiment in Jammu and Kashmir. And in this connection the BSP may try to rope in the National Conference and the Praja Parishad in order to carry non Dalit voters with the new alliance.
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