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| Mayawati ready to accommodate Congress dictators | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | May 23
Have the warring congress leaders agreed to accept the ceasefire order served on them by Chief Minister,Ghulam Nabi Azad,and the PCC Chief,Prof.Saif-ud-Din Soz ?Azad and Soz directed the warring congressmen to allow their verbal guns to fall silent so that the party could fight the ensuing Assembly poll as a united team.For the time being it is ceasefire in the organisation. The rivals have decided to stop firing against one another out of convenience and not out of conviction.
Will the ceasefire stand the test of time? This is the question that worries genuine party
supporters, besides the Chief Minister and the PCC Chief,whose political future banks on the performance of the Congress in the coming election. Indications are that the ceasefire among the rival groups in the congress may be skin deep because whatever love the
Warring leaders had, at one stage, for each other is totally lost. The Congress MP, Madan Lal Sharma, is in no mood to allow the Assembly speaker Tara Chand to go unscathed. Tara Chand continues to nurse the wounds that were inflicted on him by Madan Lal when he blamed him for being allegedly involved in the Srinagar sex scam.While Tara Chand is said to be secretly trying to weaken the base of Madan Lal in Akhnoor subdivision the latter has begun a campaign in favour of giving party mandate for the election to fresh faces. He believes that people are not happy with the performance of the old faces without bothering to realize whether he himself was a fresh or an old face. No wonder if Tara Chand is given the party mandate Madan Lal is unlikely to lend any support to the speaker. He may even go to the extent of campaigning indirectly against him even when it is a well known fact that Tara Chand has a strong base in his Chhamb constituency. Both Azad and Soz are aware of the fact that as the party high command starts the exercise on short listing the Congress candidates the war of nerves among senior congressmen would further assume serious dimensions. While on one hand the Congress leadership pins hope on the growing tussle between the PDP and the National Conference, on the other it is worried over the likely desertions in the organisation.Senior
Party leaders have fears that some congressmen of consequences may quit the party once they find they had not been given the mandate for contesting the election. Congress sources said that the party may field candidates in over 80, out of 87 constituencies, in case there was no pre-poll alliance with the PDP and till date there were more than five
Candidates in each constituency aspiring for the Congress ticket. The sources said that pressure was being mounted on the party high command to drop those sitting MLAs whose performance during the last over five years has not been satisfactory. They have also been pleading for fielding fresh faces after discarding those who have contested the election three to five times.
But in view of groupism raging in the congress and on account of threat posed to it by the National Conference in the Jammu region the party high command may ot be able to carry out an experiment by discarding the old but tested faces during a time when
the party was in the thick of battle for survival. As compared to the Kashmir valley groupism in the congress is highly manifest in the Jammu region where each minister, each MLA and MP considers himself taller, politically, than the PCC Chief. That the fears of trouble within the congress rising beyond repai seems to have forced the party high command to on the defensive as far as action against Madan Lal Sharma
Was concerned. Sharma had been issued a show cause notice by the PCC Chief,Prof. Soz,asking him to explain his position as far as his allegations against
Tara Chand and a former PCC Chief,Peerzada Mohd.Syed,were concerned.Despite the fact that a seven days time was given to Madan Lal he seemed to have ignored the direction. He replied to the show cause notice after the passage of three weeks.Soz is said to have decided to go slow on the matter because of the fear that Mayawati may rope in all those who desert the Congress..
A senior congress ;leader,who is one among a few to remain aloof from the politics of groupism,compares the party to an orange.He explains that the orange looks,from outside a well-knit circle but once it is opened one can find it breaking in several pieces.He
blames Ghulam Nabi Azad for this on the plea that he has not been able to support fully the PCC Chiefs with the result neither the Peerzada nor Soz have been able to infuse discpline.One instance: Azad inducted Gharu Ram in the council of ministers after he learnt that Gharu Ram was no longer in the camp headed by Mangat Ram Sharma.Gharu Ram was a member of the coucil of ministers headed by Mufti Mohd.Sayeed but was dropped when Ghulam Nabi Azad was installed as the Chef Minister.So it is groups within groups in the congress which could cost it dearly in the election if any favourtism was adopted during the selection of candidates. |
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