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| Mangat Ram Sharma on horn of dilemma, Congress workers pained over infighting, poaching of party rebels by PDP | | | Early Times Special Correspondent
Jammu | Apr 23
News Analysis
The senior J&K Congress leader and Minister for Health and Medical Education, Pt Mangat Ram Sharma is at the horn of dilemma how to respond to the serious allegations against him leveled by his own party colleagues, Madan Lal Sharma, member Lok Sabha from Jammu Kathua constituency and his brother Sham Lal, Congress MLA from Akhnoor, in the meeting of Jammu District Development Board, in the very presence of the Chief Minister and some high bureaucrats, with the same having been widely carried in the media.
Reacting sharply to the similar allegations leveled against him and his family members by the two BJP leaders, Shamsher Singh Manhas and Bali Bhagat, in a joint press conference few months ago, Mangat Ram Sharma had filed a label suit against them, the proceeding of which are going on in the law court. Under the circumstances, natural corollary and response from Sharma should have been filing a defamation suit against Madan Lal Sharma and his brother, to vindicate himself. But the two brothers being his own party men and particularly Madan Lal Sharma MP having much clout with the high ups in the state government and the party, this course will cause embarrassment to the party and put it in a bad shapes and make it a laughing stock before the common people here.
In the meanwhile the Congress rank and file and supporter and sympathizers of the party are pained over the senior party leaders washing their dirty linens in the public at a time when the people at large as well as party workers are confused over the silence on the part of the party and lack of strong rebuff from them to the adventurous proposals mooted out by the coalition partner of the Congress in the J&K government, which put the Congress in defensive before the people at large in Jammu and vunerable to attacks by its opponents for party's soft peddling towards the anti national and pro secessionist overtures by Mufti Mohammad Sayeed and Mehbooba Mufti.
Not only this, even poaching indulged into by the PDP of the rebel Congress leaders has upset the party workers and activists. The induction of Yash Pal Sharma, a rebel Congress leader from Poonch who was expelled from the party only recently for fighting election from Poonch constituency against the official party candidate, is being construed by the Congress rank and file as against the coalition norm. It is argued that while Congress on its part has scrupulously avoided encouraging the rebels and dissidents within the PDP from joining the Congress party, despite the inclination shown by them to this effect. In this regard it is stated that a senior former PDP leader Ghulam Hassan Mir at one stage was inclined towards joining the Congress, but he was not encouraged by the party leaders, to avoid discomfort to the PDP. Similarly, it is stated that even at one stage the present Deputy Chief Minister, Muzaffar Hussain Baig who had fallen with the Muftis over a year ago could be poached by the Congress to join the party. But despite Baig being quite close to the Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad and having incurred the wrath of Mufti Sayeed and his daughter, for being close to Azad, the latter scrupulously adhering to the coalition norm, did not encourage him to join the Congress. Again young Lone, who had rebelled against the PDP by fighting elections from Sangrama assembly constituency against the official PDP candidate and had won the same as independent candidate, despite his reported request to join the Congress, was not admitted in the party, only to not cause any embarrassment and discomfiture to the PDP. |
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