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Jammu, September 28 :- Congress leaders, including Chief Minister,Mr Ghulam Nabi Azad, and Mr Mangat Ram Sharma, have seemingly shed their inhibitions while lambasting the PDP, which shares power with the Congress in Jammu and Kashmir, for what they call their nose for raising controversial issues.
The cat was out of the bag when the Chief Minister and his trusted man Mangat Ram Sharma, while addressing a public rally at Reasi on Wednesday, accused the PDP of kicking up controversial issues. Azad had gone to the extent of threatening to quit the Government in case the coalition partners did not desist from raising controversial issues.
In fact the congress leaders have started getting jittery over the way the PDP leadership has been campaigning in favour of self-rule and the National Conference re raking up its demand for the restoration of greater autonomy.The leaders of the two parties, who are otherwise political foes, have kept these two slogans alive simply to muster peoples’ support during the next Assembly poll.
As compared to the self-rule idea floated by the PDP and the autonomy slogan of the National Conference the Congress slogan of good governance, corruption free administration and improved work culture are neither juicy nor meaty for the people of Kashmir. Gradual awareness on the part of the leaders of the state unit of the Congress that they have neither any charming idea nor any eye-catching slogan they have begun berating the PDP. The threat of the Chief Minister that he would quit if the coalition partners make him uncomfortable by their extraneous issues.
However,senior PDP leaders,while referring to Mr Mangat Ram Sharma’s criticism of the PDP leadership on the self-rule idea,point out that the congress stalwart does not seem to be aware of the recent announcement of the Prime Minister,Dr Manmohan Singh,that he was willing to discuss self-rule and autonomy with people of Kashmir.
They said that Mr Mangat Ram Sharma was trying to be more loyal than the king and in the process he had forgotten to protect the interest of apple growers when he opposed tooth and nail the demand of one PDP Minister,Mr Dilawar Mir,for raising the support price of culled apple by one rupee a Kg. They said that Himachal Pradesh Congress Government has been in favour of hike in support prices for fresh fruit and Punjab and Haryana Government, again the Congress ruled states,have been demanding increase in the support prices of paddy and wheat from time to time.
The PDP leaders said that why then the Congress leaders and ministers in Jammu and Kashmir should oppose the PDP demand for hike in apple prices under the market investment scheme.
But the congress leaders are of the firm opinion that as a coalition partner the PDP leadership should not cause embarrassing situation for the Chief Minister who is engaged in improving the work culture and in reducing the level of corruption in the state. They said that restoration of greater autonomy was the baby of the National Conference but the idea of self-rule, as propounded by the PDP for settling the Kashmir issue, was originally the idea floated by Pakistan President Gen. Pervez Musharraf. They said by parroting Pervez Musharraf’s idea the ruling PDP was sending wrong signals to the people of Kashmir who have already undergone severe travails on account of militancy related violence.
Whatever may be argument in favour of either the PDP or the Congress the relations between the two main coalition partners have turned sour. In case Delhi does not act as a trouble shooter the coalition Government may not complete its full term.At present Delhi is keen to see that the Congress-PDP coalition was allowed to run its full life so that any disturbance in the current political arrangement was not allowed to cast its shadow on the security scenario.
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