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| Ladakh mess poised to spoil coalition health | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, May 11: Feeling ditched by the Congress over the Ladakh seat was snatched by the coalition partners; the National Conference is not worried if an independent makes it to the Lok Sabha from the Himalayan cold desert.
Election to the Ladakh Lok Sabha constituency is slated for May 13, the campaigning ended this evening but no National Conference leader was seen in support of Congress. The Congress high command is said to be highly annoyed with the strategy adopted by the National Conference in the ongoing Lok Sabha poll in Jammu and Kashmir.Party sources today said that the National Conference had not sent any senior party leader for campaigning in favour of the Congress candidate, P Namgyal, in Ladakh.
The NC leadership had informed the Congress leaders that the Finance Minister, AR Rather, will be sent to Ladakh for pre-poll campaign but he was nowhere in Ladakh. A junior Minister from the National Conference had spent a couple of hours in the constituency and that was all.
Party sources said that even the NC cadre in Leh Ladakh had not come out openly during the poll campaigning in favour of the Congress candidate. They said that the Congress leadership had received even received reports that the NC leaders have campaigning, secretly, in favour of Ghulam Hassan Khan, who is contesting as an independent candidate. The sources said that the genesis of the misunderstanding between the two coalition partners surfaced when the Congress refused to surrender Ladakh seat to the National Conference. The Congress leadership had argued that under the coalition Dharma let the Congress contest three seats and the NC the remaining three seats.
The Congress leadership is apprehensive of the role the NC leadership played in the Jammu region where the Congress had fielded its candidates on the two seats. Party sources also said that against this the Congress has extended its sincere support to the NC candidates in Srinagar, Anantnag and Baramullah.
One senior party leaders said that despite his busy schedule the AICC General Secretary, Rahul Gandhi, campaigned in Anantnag in favour of NC candidate. He said besides PCC Chief,Saif-ud-Din Soz, Prithvi Raj Chauhan and other party leaders camped in valley to conduct campaigning in favour of the NC candidates in the valley.
Sources within the Congress also added that the party will watch the election results and act accordingly and categorically underlined that Congress high command will take up the issue with the NC leadership once the polls are over.
The Congress is not prepared to play a second fiddle to the National Conference,’ a senior Congress leader reacted. (KIP)
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