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| ‘Azad wanted to drive PDP out’ | | | Early Times Reporter
Srinagar | July 31
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) today said the latest revelation by the National Conference (NC) Patron Dr Farooq Abdullah that, two years back, he had offered his party's unconditional support to Ghulam Nabi Azad-led Government if he parted ways with the PDP, has uncovered the backroom plot that was hatched by Dr Abdullah and Azad to destabilize the coalition Government.
In a statement issued here today, a PDP spokesman said that in his interview telecast on DD Kashmir last night, Dr Abdullah made the startling revelation that he had telephoned Ghulam Nabi Azad in 2005 when he took over as the Chief Minister and offered that NC was ready to support his Government even without demanding any ministry if he could push the PDP out of the coalition. "Dr Abdullah's disclosures have now made it amply clear that right from the day Azad took over as the Chief Minister, he, in league with NC, was covertly working on his plan to drive PDP out of the coalition," the spokesman said and added that ironically, when Azad finally came closer to realizing his cherished dream of having a compliant NC on his side, after PDP's pull-out, he (Azad) had already created such a messy situation around himself that even his best friends in NC couldn't rescue him at the crucial moment.
The PDP spokesman said that Dr Abdullah, in his interview made another interesting exposure that Azad had contacted him in London telephonically a day before the trust vote in the assembly and pleaded for NC's support as promised. "But according to Dr Abdullah he couldn't oblige Azad as his party's legislators had opposed such an arrangement in view of the grave situation that was prevailing in the State at that time," the spokesman said and added Dr Abdullah at the same time admitted that the situation would have been different if he was present in the State at the time of trust vote, indicating that he could have supported Azad. "It is now evident from Dr Abdullah's revelations that not any political conviction, but only the compulsions of the situation disallowed NC leadership from taking a plunge into the troubled waters with Azad," he said. The PDP spokesman said that after having miserably failed in his miscalculated ambitious political misadventure, Azad is now desperately trying to shift the blame on anybody and everybody for the fall of his Government. |
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