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| Fearing backlash Cong high-command hesitating to announce new J&K chief | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, July 25: While annoyed Ghulam Nabi Azad is hesitating to take responsibility as J&K Congress chief, the party high command is in a dilemma over appointing new the party president.
After objection by their own group leaders the high command withheld the name of Vakar Rasool as the new party chief. Over two dozen leaders were called to Delhi for discussions to evolve consensus on the name of a candidate to whom responsibility will be given to the J&K Congress chief.
Sources said that after holding discussions and deliberations all leaders were asked to go back to J&K and they were assured that name of new president would be conveyed to them within a couple of days.
Almost ten days have passed but no decision regarding the new president is taken by the high command.
Ghulam Ahmad Mir resigned as PCC chief on July 5 but the party high command has failed to decide the name of the new president due to infighting among various factions.
As reported earlier not only Congress is divided between Mir and Ghulam Nabi Azad factions, serious differences have cropped up among leaders who owe their allegiance to Azad.
Highly placed sources said that former Minister and two-time MLA from Banihal, Vakar Rasool was the front-runner for the post of PCC chief but the high command has delayed the announcement of a new PCC chief due to differences among loyalists of Azad.
“Vakar Rasool is a loyalist of Azad but his (Azad’s) other loyalists are also opposing Vakar’s name for PCC chief”, sources said and added that it was all due to opposition by Azad loyalists that the high-command is hesitating to announce Vakar’s name. |
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