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| To keep flock intact, PDP wooing rebels back | | Reports of ex-MP's 'Ghar Wapsi' doing rounds | | Early Times Report
Jammu, May 31: Chances are high that the PDP in a bid to keep its splitting flock together, may extend an olive branch to its former rebels, a prominent among whom is former Member Parliament from Srinagar.
Reports inform that the PDP has already begun dispatching its emissaries to the rebel leader who once defeated NC patriarch Dr Farooq Abdullah in parliament polls and secured massive victory for the PDP. The party at present, as per the sources, is busy confabulating how to woo back the leader into the fold and accord him an important responsibility within the party.
Workers on ground in particular have asked the PDP leadership to get the rebel leader back into the fold so that a strong message is sent out that party is capable to stand on its feet again no matter the rout it had to witness during the recently concluded parliament polls in the state.
Also, if reports are to be believed, the rebel leader in question who has been amongst the founding members of the PDP also isn't contented in the Congress, the party he joined to keep the BJP at bay.
However, earlier this year the leader had trashed the possibilities of any Ghar Wapsi. He had even ridiculed Mehbooba over the reasons she has been "dishing out" for joining the BJP. He accused the PDP president of contradicting her own self. "She (Mehbooba) is contradicting her own self when today she says she was coerced to join the BJP by her own party men. You must recall the statements she gave in Delhi as well as in Srinagar when she formed the government with the BJP in April 2016,"he was quoted by reports as having said. He had cited party's decision to form coalition government with "communal" BJP as one of the prime reasons of quitting it. Other reasons given by him while bidding adieu included the elevation of some PDP leaders within the party ranks. He even termed the PDP at that time a hub of political novices, paratroopers and thieves of the funeral cloth.
"I had in 2016 predicted that downfall of the PDP. Now, its doom has come and its heydays are gone forever. The party is at present on the ventilator and anytime the people at the helm could pull out the plug and kill it. At least for now, those at the helm are allowing it to breathe," he said in a statement earlier this year and added that the leaders against whom he had the upped ante way back in 2016 have destroyed the PDP brick by brick.
According to him, PDP hasn't replied to his 18 questions he had asked the party as he tendered his resignation in 2016.
However, according to a PDP insider, much has changed since then and Modi's coming to power again has changed many political equations in Kashmir. "It will be a welcome step if one and all join hands against the divisive forces and foil their game plans that they are busy hatching against the people of the state," said the party leader. |
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