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| Cracks Wide And Open | | | National Conference not inviting its senior leader and Member Parliament Aga Ruhullah for its ongoing two-day working committee meeting has brought to fore the differences within the ruling party. Cracks are wide and open.
“I do not know which meeting is going on and what it is about. If there is a working committee meeting, then I am a permanent member of the working committee. It is for the first time since 2002 that I have not received an invitation. I came to know about the meeting through the media,” Ruhullah told reporters.
The Member Parliament once again alleged that the NC led government lacks intent to fulfil the promises it made during 2024 assembly elections.
On the other hand Chief Minister’s Advisor, Nasir Aslam Wani, confirmed that no invitation was sent to Ruhullah to attend the meeting.
Ruhullah and his party have been at loggerheads since the past one year after the MP joined the students protests against the reservation issue.
Ruhullah’s decision to stand with the agitating youth was seen by many within the NC as a challenge to the party’s stance and an attempt to carve out an independent political identity. His stand placed him at odds with a leadership which is keen to maintain a tight grip over its narrative.
The Member Parliament has been maintaining distance from the party and its events. The NC’s recent defeat in Budgam by-polls has left the leadership outraged. Ruhullah didn’t participate in the election campaign and then seat which was won by CM Omar Abdullah just one year ago went to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
For the NC leadership, the by-poll debacle appears to have been the tipping point. Instead of introspecting on governance deficiencies or reconnecting with the people, the response seems to have taken the shape of sidelining dissenting voices.
The MP has been maintaining that he has no plan to float a new political outfit; his fight is for principles, not for the chair. He has been alleging that the disagreement is about the failure to do what the party had promised to the electorate before the polls.
The decision of the NC leadership to shut him out sends a message that dissent will be met not with engagement but exclusion. Such an approach may offer short-term control, but it risks long-term erosion of the party’s moral authority. |
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