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| Congress meet: NC must be asked to quit Chief Minister's post | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Nov 3: District Congress Committee Jammu Urban (DCCJU) meets on 3rd of every month. It is a regular feature. Today the DCCJU met under the president-ship of Congress veteran Om Chopra, president of the District Congress Committee. It was attended by the DCC office-bearers, block presidents, ward presidents and former councilors. Significantly, today's meeting was also attended by a number of JKPCC office-bearers and a couple of Members of the Legislative Council. According to sources within the Congress, it was a largely-participated in meeting. "It was a high profile meeting," the sources told the Early Times on the condition of anonymity.
The meeting was ostensibly held to discuss ways and means to make the proposed convention of party workers in Jammu District, Urban, a grand success and great event to neutralize the influence of other political parties, especially the BJP which has unleashed a relentless campaign against the Congress both at the national level and state level. The JKPCC chief, Prof Saif-ud-Din Soz, is, according to sources, very anxious to hold convention in the winter capitol of the state, Jammu. According to sources, he has been pressing the DCCJU to hold convention for quite sometime now. The DCCJU has finally decided to hold it to mobilize workers at the grassroots level and expand the support-base of the Congress party, particularly in the Jammu province which returns to the assembly no less than 37 legislators.
If what the sources within the party have shared with the Early Times is correct, then it can be said that the Congress workers are not happy with the Congress ministers and that their main complaint is that the Congress ministers have little or scant regard for the sentiments of the Congress workers, the backbone of the party. "There is disconnect between the Congress workers and the Congress Ministers and top-ranking Congress leaders," the sources told.
However, what was more significant, according to the same sources, was the fact that there was broader consensus among those who attended the today's meeting convened by the DCCJU that the office of Chief Minister must come to Jammu after the National Conference completes three-year term in office. It was, according to sources, made it loud and clear that the "Congress is not the B-team" of the National Conference and that "no one should take it for granted."
Almost all those who spoke during the meeting were highly critical of the National Conference-led coalition government. They expressed the view that the Congress would suffer on political front if the National Conference is allowed to complete a full term of six years. This was a significant development. Even more significant was the accusation that when the Congress veteran Mangat Ram Sharma raked up this issue at a convention recently held at Dayalachak in Kathua district, none of the senior Congress leaders sitting on the dais supported Mangat Ram Sharma. Sharma has been, it needs to be noted, consistently demanding that someone from Jammu should be handed over the office of Chief Minister after Omar Abdullah completes three years in office.
Even more significant perhaps was, according to the insiders, the support the demand for replacing Omar Abdullah on January 4, 2011 received from one and all present in the meeting. "Everyone present in the meeting", according to insiders, "endorsed the suggestion."
It will be seen if the DCCJU takes up this issue with the party high command. It is extremely doubtful if the District congress Committee would muster courage and ask the party high command to go in for rotational chief minister-ship in the state in larger national interest and in the interest of the Congress party in the state. However, still the fact remains that resentment is brewing among the Congress' rank and file. The resentment is not misplaced. It is a fact that the Congress is at the receiving end and the BJP and the JKNPP doing their best to erode the Congress' support-base in Jammu province. |
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