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| NC, PDP creating bridges with Congress | | After stabbing Azad, pursuit begins for next round | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu, July 11: After stabbing Ghulam Nabi Azad on his back and getting blunt on his face, the Peoples Democratic Party and the National Conference are now constructing their new bridges with the Congress obviously aiming at alliances for next elections.
Immediately after fall of the Ghulam Nabi Azad government the two parties which could have bailed him out in the crisis are now in a race to get closer to the Congress at Center. The crisis hovering over the United Progressive Alliance government over the nuclear deal has come as best opportunity for the PDP and the National Conference to win the Congress back and look towards benefits of alliance for the next elections.
The UPA Government at Center which has been reduced to a minority by pulling out of the Left parties is set to face a trust vote in the Lok Sabha on July 22. In the hour of crisis the UPA which is short of few members is heavily banking upon the smaller parties and independents to sail through in the trust vote. Parties like National Conference (having two MPs in Lok Sabha) and PDP (with one MP) are crucial for survival of the UPA Government.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, the Peoples Democratic Party has declared its support to the UPA government on N-deal issue, while the National Conference president Omar Abdullah too had a meeting with External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee in which he is reported to have extended his support to the UPA.
Political observers feel that both National Conference and the Peoples Democratic Party saw their electoral benefit in the fall of Ghulam Nabi Azad government while they don’t have any ideological differences with the Congress. Ever since the eruption of present controversy on Amarnath Shrine issue and even earlier at many occasions, the PDP had expressed its discomfort with Azad and not with the Congress party. Even the day the government fell down on July 7, the PDP president Mehbooba Mufti said that her party had a bad experience with Azad while she did not rule out repeating an alliance with the Congress for next elections.
Analysts believe that none of the major political parties –the Congress, National Conference and the Peoples Democratic Party –are in a position to form the next government at their own. There will have to be an alliance between two of these three parties. Since in the given bitter legacy an alliance between NC and PDP is almost unthinkable, both parties are now looking at redesigning their relations with the Congress for the forming the next government together.
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