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Jammu,July 30
Not only the smaller politicalparties but the main opposition National Conference keep a watch on the health of the PDP-Congressalliance so that they could work out combinations withone or the other organisation.
Reports indicate that the National Conference
leadership has preferred to maintain astute silence
over the ups and downs in the PDP-Congress alliance
because it does not want to disclose its strategy in
advance which could totally seal the chance for its
electoral adjustment or understanding with the
Congress during the next Assembly poll.One thing is
clear the NC leadership can never have any equation
with the PDP and the latter too is not prepared to
enter into any adjustment with the former because both
of them treat each other main political foes.
If left to Chief Minister,Ghulam Nabi Azad,he would
prefer National Conference to PDP but the Congress
high command has clearly told him that the present
political arrangement has to be kept alive at any
cost.
Since the BJP has announced that it will have no
alliance with Kashmir centric parties,meaning the
National Conference and the PDP,it cannot but explore
the possibility of having some electoral understanding
with the BSP.According to a senior BJP leader,Dr
Nirmal Singh,"we shall not join hands with smaller
parties that have hardly any base.If there is any
party that has pockets of influence in the Jammu
region it is the BSP." However,the BSP has already
initiated talks with the Praja Parishad,headed by
Chander Mohan Sharma.If the tie-up between the two
materialises the scope for the BJP-BSP alliance gets
remote because Chander Mohan Sharma will never agree
on BSP joining hands with the BJP.
Indications are that the BJP may opt for going alone
in the poll fray as its leadership believes that the
ommissions and commissions of the ruling alliance were
going to help it as the antiincumbency factor may
weigh heavy on the head of the Congress.
The Panthers Party has the same opinion about the
Congress.Even if some pre-poll alliances come up the
Jammu region will have multi-cornered contests in 37
Assembly constituencies and in the 46 constituencies
in the Kashmir valley it will be primarily a
triangular contest among the PDP,the Congress and the
National Conference
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