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| Statments likely to create 'friction' among ruling allies | | 'Unhappy' Congress workers: | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Mar 14: The NC-Congress coalition in the state may appear to be stable and smooth outwardly but the grudges nourished by some disgruntled COngress leaders over a host of issues have started surfacing against the ruling NC in the shape of statements that is bound to create some 'friction' at various levels.
In what can be seen as a statement laden with levels of discomfiture of some Congress leaders with NC is the one veteran Gujjar leader Choudhary Bashir Ahmad Naz has given today at Mandi in Poonch district.Naz, a former MLC and at present Vice Chairman Gujjar Bakarwal Advisory Board, (Mos) has alleged that UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi was not happy the way ruling dispensation has been 'giving raw deal' to the Congress workers and cadres at different places. "Sonia Gandhi has conveyed to some leaders that she cannot see Congress workers being pushed to wall or getting sidelined.........she is even stated to have conveyed that if such approach continued, Congress would consider pulling out of coalition", Bashir Ahmad Naz said this today while addressing a public rally in Mandi town of the border district.
The point Naz apparently wanted to drive home is that Congress workers were not happy and content with the present political arrangement as according to him they were not getting their 'due' in many ways. His statement may not cause ripples in the political spectrum but is surely seen as bold one in the light of his daring utterance against the ruling NC, party with which he remained associated for years until the elections of Assembly in 2008.
That Congress workers and even leaders have been nourishing this feeling of getting sidelined is even evident from the undertones of the statement made by J&K PCC president himeslef few days back that Congress workers and cadres needed to be strengthened. In this statment Jammu and Kashmir Congress chief asserted that coalition with National Conference would continue but in the same breath said that Congress has to be strengthened in the state' to ensure success of the alliance.'
"Congress would continue to contribute for the success of the coalition government," Soz said this while addressing a convention of party workers in Bandipora township only last week, stressing at the same time on strengthening the Congress at all levels, in what he underlined that it was only a 'strong' Congress that would ensure 'success' of the coalition government.
Though apparently, it may sound a normal stament from the party chief but the undertones of the having strong Congress has many connotations to understand, particularly in the light of the disatisfaction and a feeling of disorientation among the COngress workers which has been well conveyed to senior leaders. This feeling has become intense in the face of their counterparts in NC , also an ally in the coalition, who they feel enjoy better political placements and status.Since the COngress workers have of late been fuming with such feelings, the leadership has now started giving vent to them in the public meetings.This is serving them twin purpose of trying to console thier won party workers that 'all is going to be well' and at the same time hitting at the leaders for their personal political interests.
In this particular case Naz, who is no more with NC is also trying to kill two birds with astone- one that while sympathising with the cause of Congress workers he is only consolidating loyality with party leadership but at the same time he is trying to take dig at NC leaders to make his own political position comfortable against rivals in the constituency.Naz, it may be mentioned parted ways with NC after he failed to get ticket from party to contest the polls. Though he has been suitably adjusted by the Congress in the presnet dispensation, his discomfiture at the political level is far too understandable.However, what turn actually takes on the front of some 'disallignment' between the coalition allies at the level of workers at some places, remains to be seen.
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