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| Following truce Mufti favours contesting poll in alliance with | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Nov 8
A truce has been worked out
between the Congress and the PDP for containing the
attempts by the National Conference,the main
opposition party,at regaining the ground that it had
lost in 2002 Assembly election. And as a result of theintervention by the Congress high command the PDP andthe state unit of the Congress have agreed to keep
alive the present political arrangement.
Not only this:the PDP leadership has started
favouring contesting the next election in alliance
with the Congress.Sources close to the PDP
patron,Mufti Mohd.Sayeed,said here today that the
Mufti "wants to have an alliance or an electoral
understanding with the Congress which alone could
prevent the National Conference from regaining power."
Sources said that Mufti sayeed does not want to get
provoked by repeated statements of the vicepresident
of the PCC,Mr Abdul Gani Vakl,saying that the Congress
will contest the next poll without any alliance with
the PDP.The PDP Patron has been treating the conflict
between the Congress and the PDP on various issues as
part of the coalition politics.He seems to be keen to
allow the coalition Government to run its full term.
PDP sources said that Mufti Mohd.Sayeed is also not
in favour of preponing the election. He has told his
party colleagues that the next election will be held
as per the schedule in October 2008.Even the Congress
is opposed to holding the election before the schedulebecause it hopes to make some marked achievements inthe development sector which it could sell during its
pre-poll campaign.
The leader of the Panthers Party in the
Assembly,Mr Harsh Dev Singh, does not foresee the possibility of preponement of election.He has said that since the Congress has "nothing to sell to the people it will not opt for early election."On the other hand theNational Conference has been demanding early electionon the ground that the growing conflict between theCongress and the PDP has resulted in politicaluncertanity and administrative collapse.The NCleadership has started targeting the PDP more thanthe Congress because in the PDP it finds a potentialpolitical rival in the Kashmir valley. |
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