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Azad stirs hornet's nest
3/20/2020 8:21:50 PM
Former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir and senior Congress leader, Ghulam Nabi Azad, ignoring other party leaders and putting up a solo performance at Farooq Abdullah's residence in Srinagar has reportedly not gone well with the other Congress leaders.
Azad leaving the other party leaders behind and deciding to meet the National Conference President Farooq Abdullah, who was released after 7-month detention, alone in Srinagar has made the other Congress leaders in Jammu and Kashmir believe that they were treated shabbily by Azad and he is projecting himself as the face of the Congress in J&K.
Although Azad had claimed that him meeting Farooq was just a courtesy call but the fact is that it was political move aimed at sending a message that Azad may return to J&K politics soon after his term in Rajya Sabha ends.
Azad has always been considered as a strong leader of the Congress party in Jammu and Kashmir. He has enjoyed the support of his party leaders and the opposition as well. But after August 5, 2019, situation has changed. The J&K is not the same. It stands reorganized and doesn't enjoy special status anymore. The political leaders, who used to call shots and run the affairs of Jammu and Kashmir, are no more relevant as their slogans and narratives stand punctured.
Azad is an intelligent politician he is aware about the fact that J&K Congress is in disarray at present and the veteran party leaders are in oblivion. After losing power in 2014, the Congress leaders and former ministers have disappeared from the scene. Many influential leaders have changed their goal posts. The Congress party is left with only a few people, who can lead the party and pull it out from the crisis in Jammu and Kashmir.
After setting up of Delimitation Commission, assembly polls in the newly carved out union territory of J&K can take place within a year. The Congress Party has to put its act together and start preparing for these elections early as it will have to do lot of hard work in Jammu region, which used to be its citadel once upon a time.
Azad trying to project himself as the leader of Congress in Jammu and Kashmir has brought one more fact to fore. He has realized that his party may not be able to make much impact in the country in coming years and they may have to sit in the opposition for a long time so he is trying his luck in J&K.
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