| Grassroot workers, second rung leaders make NC, PDP top brass uneasy | | Omar expels 2-time MLA, Mehbooba’s cousin likely to join Azad’s party | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Nov 9: National Conference and Peoples Democratic Party are finding it hard to keep their flock together.
Recent developments indicate that the resentment against the party leadership is brewing among the grass root workers and the second rung leaders.
An observer, while referring to the recent expulsion of the NC leader in Bandipora district, said, “Expulsion of Ghulam Rasool Naz, a two-time MLA and the district party president of Bandipora, from the party for not attending a party convention shows that the NC top-leadership is feeling insecure.”
Pertinently, NC vice-president, Omar Abdullah while addressing the party workers accused Naz of causing a division within the Bandipora unit of the party. “There is no place for individuals who sow division and weaken the party. Our primary concern is not external threats but the challenges posed by individuals within the party,” Omar said, referring to Naz and his daughter-in-law, who were portrayed by the NC as the party’s representatives in Bandipora. He also announced that Advocate Nazir Malik, the constituency in-charge in Bandipora, would be promoted as the new face of the party for the upcoming elections.
“It’s not only Bandipora, NC is facing similar problems in many areas of Kashmir. Its evident that NC top brass has realized that it’s on the weak wicket,” an analyst told Early Times.
Meanwhile, reports have been making rounds that Sarwar Mufti, cousin of former J&K chief minister and Peoples Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti, is set to join the Democratic Progressive Azad Party on Saturday (November 11).
Sources said that Sarwar would join DPAP in Bijbhera in a function to be chaired by DPAP president Ghulam Nabi Azad.
Notably, PDP top leadership has been making desperate attempts to keep its leaders together but the efforts seem to be going in a vain. “NC and PDP are facing a threat from the new political parties that have emerged in Kashmir’s political arena during the past few years. Many leaders and workers of both the parties have joined other formations after 2019,” said an observer. |
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