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| Cong omits Azad | | | It seems that the Congress Party has said goodbye to its veteran leader Ghulam Nabi Azad. It’s evident from the fact that none of the poll posters in J&K have Azad’s photograph.
Trouble for Azad had started few months ago when he along with 20 other senior leaders of the party wrote a letter demanding change in Congress’s leadership. That letter had triggered a row following which Azad along with few other senior leaders of the party were dropped from the list of national office bearers of the party.
The poll posters that have been released for the ongoing District Development Council elections carry the pictures of Sonia Gandhi, Rajni Patel, Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi, Dr Manmohan Singh, JKPCC chief G.A Mir and the candidates contesting the polls. Azad who used to be the prominent face of the Congress Party in Jammu and Kashmir has been side lined completely.
The Congress party has felt Azad’s absence badly in the ongoing DDC polls in Jammu and Kashmir. The party is in complete disarray. The Congress Party, which shared power with PDP and National Conference for 12 consecutive years in J&K, as on date stands decimated even in Jammu, its erstwhile bastion. The influential leaders, including former ministers have deserted the Congress in Jammu. In Kashmir party has got just few faces, who too are struggling to make their presence felt on the ground.
The grand old party will have to look for different ways and means for re-entering into Jammu and Kashmir’s political arena. Azad’s ouster has made the revival of the Congress Party in J&K very difficult.
Azad’s absence has led to his loyalists turning silent. The new J&K incharge of the Congress Party will have to work very hard to revive the party in J&K. Mere statements won’t work.
The Congress, which ruled the country for so many years, stands at crossroads today. The old horses, who remained loyal to Nehru-Gandhi family throughout their lives, stand isolated and it seems that the ones who have donned their mantles will take time to understand the politics of the regions they have been assigned.
The Congress Party is unlikely to make any impact in the ongoing DDC polls in Jammu and Kashmir. It has preferred to contest these elections with the Peoples’ Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) as the party leaders are aware of the fact that contesting elections alone would have exposed the party to hilt. |
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