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| Where is Congress, Congress asks? | | Both factions join chorus for stand on issues | | Politics Post-Sagheer
Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 21: With BJP going full throttle against autonomy in backdrop of Justice Sagheer report and the National Conference going whole hog about it, the Congress is “asking itself where it stands.”
A Congress meeting convened to discuss the membership drive turned out to be an introspection session for the participants as party leaders asked the veterans about its stand on the key issues in prevailing political scenario. The event also offered an opportunity of interaction among otherwise warring factions owing allegiance to Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad and PCC chief Prof Saifiddin Soz.
Sources in Congress told Early Times that it was delay in arrival of Congress observer Choudhary Virender Singh which offered the opportunity of discussion. As Singh’s arrival was delayed by hours, sources said, some leaders from Azad camp pointed out about the party’s stand on autonomy which kicked off introspective discussion.
The participants were of the view that Justice Sagheer’s report (PM’s fifth working group) has offered the National Conference enough fuel expansion of its organizational base and challenged ideology. They said that its aggressive counter by the BJP is also keeping the saffron party active in public debates and so is the case with Peoples Democratic Party which is going all out with its self rule proposal. A cross section of Congress leaders drawn from both factions were of the opinion that in present scenario Congress appears to be the only party which neither any stand, direction or ideological framework.
Sources said that mostly the veteran party leaders who are not in the government were quite vocal and critical on the organizational disarray and lack of well structured response to key political issues raised by other parties. “In public sphere it appears that National Conference, PDP and BJP are the only key players in Jammu and Kashmir and Congress is a subordinate executive in the ruling structure”, a senior leader and former Minister was quoted as saying. He further added, “smoothly enjoying power for next five years is not an issue but Congress may not be a reckonable party beyond that”.
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