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| Coalition must handle dissentions | | | Two political parties, National Conference and the Congress that share power in Jammu and Kashmir continue to be plagued by clash of egos among the top guns. It is straightway a tussle for supremacy between PCC President,Saif-ud-Din Soz, and the Union Health Minister, Ghulam Nabi Azad. The conflict between the two that has surfaced recently is the outcome of Azad's favour to get inducted two legislators from Doda district in the cabinet.He wants both Abdul Majid Wani and G.M.Saroori to get cabinet post.Soz opposes it on the plea that one district cannot have two legislators in the cabinet when more than four districts do not have any representation in the council of ministers. The two have had hardly any cordial relations even when Soz was the Union Minister and Azad the Chief Minister. The day the PDP leadership started giving needle pricks to the Government headed by Ghulam Nabi Azad Farooq Abdullah had moved closer to Azad. Had it been left to Azad he would have snapped ties with the PDP and retained power with the support of the National Conference. Azad has been nursing fears that Soz may emerge as a parallel authority in the state unit of the Congress. The result of this tussle is that the Congress in Jammu and Kashmir is divided between the supporters of Soz and Azad.As far as the National Conference is concerned the dissensions are not as severe as it is in the Congress. At present it is divided between the supporters of Dr Farooq Abdullah and Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah. Soon after the dice was cast in favour of Congress-NC alliance Farooq was the natural choice for the post of Chief Minister. However, a day before the cabinet swearing he had received the message that his son would be installed as Chief Minister. Farooq had argued with senior Congress leaders that he had no objection to it but he would like to train his son by inducting him in the cabinet so that within next year or so he would take over as the Chief Minister. Since Delhi is not quite satisfied with Omar's performance Delhi is said to be trying to persuade Farooq to takeover the reigns of the Government. Farooq has reportedly rejected it as such a step could result in family friction. In fact the father does not interfere in his son's matters and the son is not pr epared to accept any dictation from his father. Well Omar has the acumen to deal with political problems but the way the situation took a turn in Kashmir he and his ministerial colleagues seem to have been unnerved. That is unwise on their part. What is needed is close rapport between the Congress and the National Conference. Equally important is that the top leadership in the National Conference take initiatives for ending groupism and time has come for the Congress high command to put a full stop to the ego clash between Azad and Soz. Let the party high command tell Azad to concentrate on the work in health ministry and let Soz be allowed to manage the Pradesh Congress committee affairs without any meddling from Azad. This is not the time for the ruling coalition to cave in under the internal dissensions and the pressure from the opposition
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