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| Sonia in Srinagar today, no breakthrough likely | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Sep 9: In a symbolically significant but politically low key affair, the Congress president Sonia Gandhi is arriving in the summer capital Srinagar tomorrow. She is coming on the invitation of the Women Development Corporation to attend a convention and the Social Welfare department has been made the nodal agency for the visit of the Congress present.
Policemen and paramilitary CRPF men have been put on high alert on the eve of UPA chairperson and Congress president Sonia Gandhi's visit. She will be attending
a women's meet at Sher-i-Kashmir International Convention Complex (SKICC) on the banks of famed Dal Lake. The authorities have imposed ban on plying of all commercial and non-commercial vehicles from Dalgate to Nishat from tomorrow morning till the function is over.
Contrary to the wide ranging controversies, the visiting Congress president is unlikely to meddle into the ongoing political controversy between the Peoples Democratic Party and the Congress involving relocation of portfolio of the Forest Minister Qazi Mohammad Afazal. It is reliably learnt that the visit of the Congress president is purely connected to the women's convention.
Though she will be meeting leaders from her own Congress party and the coalition partner Peoples Democratic Party but the exercise of a supervisory command to defuse the tension between coalition partners is not on the cards, said sources associated the arrangements. Senior Congress leader MM Jacob, who is incharge of the Jammu and Kashmir affairs, arrived today in Srinagar to oversee the arrangements for Sonia Gandhi's visit.
It may be mentioned here that the two coalition alliances are on the logger heads with each other over the issue. Though there both are silent on the matter, sources said, there is a storm building up with in the alliance.
Chief minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has tried to pacify his ally by writing a letter to Qazi Afzal giving him a clean chit on corruption and misappropriation charges, the minister refused to join back the cabinet demanding that the matter should be discussed with the party leadership.
"In the recent past the differences have only benefited the opposition", a PDP leader said adding, "We want to end the matter but the matter need to be discussed at the party level".
Though the PDP want the forest portfolio back, sources said, chief minister Ghulam Nabi Azad was in no mood to concede the demand. There were also some talks going on regarding some secret files and CDs pending with the chief minister regarding the affairs in the forest department.
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