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| Soz to continue as JKPCC chief | | | Early Times Report
jammu, Sept 24: The Congress high command besides Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, continue to repose trust in the PCC Chief, Saif-ud-Din Soz, who has been doing a good job as the party head in Jammu and Kashmir despite odds. Party sources said that during the last two months the dissidents had made repeated attempts at causing a wedge between Soz and the Congress high command by circulating "concocted stories on the activities of Soz. "Congress circles said that the dissidents had failed in their mission after the party high command paid no heed to the "baseless complaints against Soz."
The party circles said that during the last over three months, during which period the Kashmir valley witnessed unprecedented violence, in which over 104 people fell dead in the police firing, the Congress high command had been in constant touch with Soz. In fact the party high command attached importance to the intermittent briefing by Soz on the situation in the Kashmir valley.
Reports said that after Soz, in one of his briefings, favoured that Omar Abdullah be given more time for tackling the situation the relations between the PCC Chief and Chief Minister had witnessed further improvement. The two have been in constant touch with each other.
Party sources said that the Congress high command has decided to retain Soz as PCC Chief in the interest of the party and in the smooth functioning of the ruling coalition. The Congress high command has been told by the loyalists that the dissidents were a spent up force after the exit of G.M. Saroori from the cabinet. A senior Congress Minister said that except for one party MLA, who is a member of the council of ministers, led by Omar Abdullah, and one member of the Legislative council others were simply "paper tigers" who had lost peoples' support in previous Assembly elections.
The Minister said that the loyalists were reviewing the activities and plans of the dissidents and in case their plans amounted to weakening the organisation in the state all those details would be submitted to the Congress high command with the request that disciplinary action be taken against them.
Another report said that the Congress high command feels that the activities of the dissidents posed no serious problem for the Congress in Jammu and Kashmir and as such "there was no need for taking action against them. "The party high command has favoured that these dissidents be totally "ignored" so that they stopped playing games against the party. "We want these dissidents to join hands with us so that the party became stronger than what it is at present," one minister said adding that a united Congress could not allow the National Conference to take "us for a ride."
The Minister, however, added that the dissidents will have no other alternative but to close their shop once they were told to join hands with the loyalists by the union Health Minister, Ghulam Nabi Azad. |
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