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| Congress must set house in order | | |
After a year of turmoil in its ranks and washing of their apparently dirty linen in the open public, the Congress top brass is now announcing in the public rallies that its leaders should fall in line or they be prepared for action. There is talk of organizational discipline and the top leaders have said that they are in no mood to tolerate indiscipline. It is a pretty funny scenario. One can’t easily make out who is talking to whom. Is this warning coming from the organizational leadership or from one lobby to another? On 125th foundation day function of the Congress in Jammu on Monday, the party General Secretary in-charge of Jammu and Kashmir Affairs and a Minister in Prime Minister’s Office, Prithviraj Chavan made a clarion call to all the Congress leaders who, he said, were creating indiscipline in the party. As a part of his responsibility to talk the idealpolitik, Chavan said no body is above the party and it is the party that comes first and then all other positions –“may that be of Deputy Chief Minister, Ministers or Legislators”. Sitting on the side of Chavan was the President of Pradesh Congress Committee Prof Saifuddin Soz who also talked in the same tone and tenor to warn the dissidents. What makes this call of awakening in the Congress a funny scenario is the fact that the warnings of discipline are not being issued by a neutral leadership but by one of the lobbies engaged in pulling the cadres in opposite directions. It is an open secret known to all in Jammu and Kashmir and also to many in Delhi that if there are two lobbies or factions of Congress in the state one of them is directly led by the PCC chief Soz. Having known that, the Congress General Secretary in-charge of Jammu and Kashmir affairs Prithviraj Chavan can not absolve himself of the charge of being patron of one of the lobbies –obviously the one led by Prof Soz. Now, having said that, it is useless for Chavan or any other central leader of the Congress to warn the state leaders of the ilk of Tara Chand, GM Saroori, Abdul Ghani Vakil or Madan Lal, Sham Lal and Raman Bhalla and then have the discipline restored to the organization. These leaders, divided in two sets, owe their allegiance to Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad and PCC Chief Saifuddin Soz. As along as Soz and Azad want them to be driven apart they will continue to do so for much simple reasons to understand. Instead of this empty rattling and the hollow warnings to local leaders, Chavan and his seniors in Delhi, may be the Congress president Sonia Gandhi, must talk and seek truce between Azad and Soz. Both Azad and Soz have their own constituency of following in Jammu and Kashmir and their contribution, they made in past are capable of making in future, can not be just overlooked or brushed aside. We are not arguing for placing either Azad or Soz in a powerful position. The suggestion is for bringing about order in Congress for ensuring a competitive politics in Jammu and Kashmir.
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