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| JK polls on agenda as CWC meet today | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | May 30
The Congress high command is all set to draw a line of action for the forthcoming Jammu and Kashmir elections as the party's highest decision making body –the Central Working Committee –meets under the chairpersonship of Sonia Gandhi in New Delhi tomorrow.
Reports said that elections in Jammu and Kashmir top the agenda of CWC meeting which is being convened in the backdrop of a crushing defeat for the Congress in Kerala elections. Congress President Sonia Gandhi,
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and other leaders are also expected to discuss the party's strategy for the coming assembly elections in Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Jammu and Kashmir.
Following defeat in Kerala, the Congress party think tank have concluded that inability to project a state leader led to defeat of the party. The political pundits have asked the Congress leadership to clearly identify its state level leaderships for projection in the
elections so that the people can rally around.
In case of Jammu and Kashmir, the Congress CWC will have to draw a clear line on whether the party wants to have an alliance with the Congress or go it alone. Another serious poll issue before the party is its final decision on the state level leadership –the choices are between Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad and the Union Water Resources
Minister Saif-ud-Din Soz who is also the PCC Chief.
The crucial meeting of the Congress Working Committee (CWC) will be held in New Delhi tomorrow to review the political situation in the wake of the Karnataka assembly poll results, upcoming elections in states including Jammu and Kashmir and other issues, including the spiralling inflation and the oil prices in the international market.
This is perhaps for the first time the CWC is faced with several burning issues that have great political significance. The CWC would look for putting the party's campaign machinery in order ahead of the assembly elections that would be followed by the Lok Sabha polls.
Besides Karnataka, where the BJP has formed the government marking its entry into the corridors of power in the South, the Congress has been defeated in the elections in as many as a dozen states since the UPA took up the reins at the Centre in May 2004.
The government is expected to raise the prices of petrol and diesel tomorrow ahead of the CWC meeting. In that case, the CWC would discuss damage control measures to minimise the impact of the rise on the common man and the party's credibility among the voters. |
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