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| Congress yet to show up face | | Leaders in 'Delhi Darbar', cadre breaking apart | |
Early Times Report
Jammu | Nov 7
Though the election campaign is yet to fully pick up in region, barring two districts going to polls in first phase, but the Congress appears to be a party completely missing from the scene.
While all senior leaders of party including Pradesh Congress Committee chief Prof Saif-ud-Din Soz and former Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad are still held in up New Delhi to get a line from the high command on issue of leadership, back home dissidence and rebellion is spilling open on the roads to trigger a bad wave across the state.
Sources said that the Congress high command is still jittery on the leadership issue and the two senior leaders are in no mood to plunge into field before the line of action is made clear. Azad is reportedly not ready to work under Soz and vice versa. The indication so far is that Soz is the party leader in the ensuing elections while Azad like any other leader has to go along as per the assignments delegated to them. This imbalance of equation is making Congress a mute spectator of the election activity as other parties kick off the campaign.
For three key assembly constituencies of Jammu district, the Congress nominees are yet to be known. Though Jammu district goes to poll in last phase of elections on December 24, but this being the Capital City becomes an epicenter of the election campaign. Congress' main rival in City BJP has pulled its campaign well leaving the Congress activists looking for their leaders.
Polling in three segments of Poonch constituency is now just ten days away and any senior Congress leader is yet to reach there. Same is the case in Bandipore district of North Kashmir which is also going to polls in first phase. Only remarkable activity of the Congress, so far, is a public meeting in Leh addressed by Azad and Soz.
Meanwhile, as no senior leader has yet taken responsibility of steering the party ahead, dissidence and rebellion is coming to fore. Four aspirants of the Congress ticket in three constituencies of Rajouri district are in fray as independent candidates.
Closer to the capital, rebellion has also broken out in Ramnagar constituency in Udhampur district. The Mahila Congress workers of Ramnagar assembly segment have raised a revolt against the state Congress party in nominating a persons to contest forthcoming election on party ticket, while ignoring the candidature of decorated party worker and general secretary R.S Pathania.
Women workers have sent an memorandum in this regard to Sonia Gandhi and have decided to dissolve entire unit and also resign from party. Beside Mahila Congress, several Congress activists of Ramnagar constituency in meeting having openly came out against the party candidate Thakur Dass, a socially boycotted person with dubious character.
Party workers in general feel that they have been duped and deceived as they were meticulously and interestingly nursing the so-projected fellow. As a die hard party worker having a widest-ever mass base has been superseded and sidelined at the cost of a purely out of organization, out of turn fellow. Pathania is son of the old horse, Bhupinder Singh Pathania, who is presently District President of Congress party and joined Congress in 1958 and risen to the post of General Secretary and then President of state unit of Youth Congress. Ghulam Nabi Azad former Chief Minister, Peerzada Syed, former P.C.C. President Janak Raj Gupta and former M.P Mirza Abduul Rashid, former speaker and a wide galaxy of Congressmen having made their marks at the state and central political stages were recruited by Pathania in 70s while he was state president of Youth Congress. That is why, suppression of a die hard, committed and cadre-based family's scion by a total non-entity and rather a social and aesthetic nuisance has shocked the party rank and file workers registered under this unit have unanimously decided to dissolve the entire unit and resign from their respective party positions unless the party mandate is changed at the earliest.
Congress workers of Majalta camp, Dudu-Basantgarh, Ghordi and workers of NSUI also demanded change in party mandate soon the release said.
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