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| Poor Congress peformance in Bihar poll can impact party in J&K | | | | Can the poor performance of the Congress in the just concluded Bihar Assembly election shake the party high command out of its slumber as far as its dealing with the party affairs in Jammu and Kashmir state are concerned? This question has assumed added interest in the troubled state of Jammu and Kashmir which cannot escape from the impact from the drubbing the Congress received at the hands of the JD-U-BJP alliance in the Bihar elections. During the last one year the Congress unit in Jammu and Kashmir is experiencing a down the hill journey because of its pleasure it has shown in playing a second fiddle to the National Conference. The tussle between the loyalists and the dissidents in the state unit of the Congress is being exploited by Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah, and his father, Dr Farooq Abdullah, Union Minister for New and Renewable energy. The father-son duo is said to be egging some of the Congress ministers for peruading the party high command to go in for change in the PCC leadership. Reports say that both the father and the son are in favour of either Peerzada Mohd. Syed or Tara Chand or Taj Mohiuddin replacing Saif-ud-Din Soz as PCC President. Hitherto neither Tara Chand nor Syed nor Taj are keen to replace Soz because they do not want to lose the ministerial post once the party high command stuck to one-man one post policy. The National Conference leadership is not comfortable with Soz who has been trying to keep the Congress unit in Jammu and Kashmir up and kicking. The NC leadership wants a decile PCC Chief which it can find in Syed or Taj or Tara Chand. So far the Congress high command has neither obliged the dissidents nor the Chief Minister by asking Soz to quit as PCC chief. It is so because Soz was performing his task with perfection despite problems created by the coalition politics and by the dissidents. Party sources said that the element of dissidence in the Congress in Bihar had been one of the factors responsible for the poor performance of the Congress. They argue that if the party high command left the problem of dissidence in the organisation in Jammu and Kashmir unattended the Congress may face a dark future in the state.Since 2002 the Congress has been a kingmaker. It has shared power with the PDP between 2002 and 2008 and now it was sharing power with the National Conference. This had become possible when the party had performed weill in the Assembly elections. It cannot take peoples', rather voters', support for granted if it continued to support anti-Jammu policies of the National Conference. If Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah, and his National Conference treat the Congress as their "yes men" they do it becuse of the advantage they have secured from the war between the loyalists and the dissidents in the Congress. It is one major factor responsible for the National Conference leadership to ignore the party with which it shares power. The second reason is the continued support Omar has been receiving from the AICC general secretary, Rahul Gandhi, and the Union Home Minister, P. Chidambaram. But the same Rahul Gandhi has turned a blind eye towards the factional feud in the state unit of the Congress. By now Omar has realised his political strength, that has come from the problem of dissidence in the Congress and from Rahul's support, and hence he is not under any pressure to keep the Congrss involved in all major political decisions. There are a large number of Congress workers and those leaders who have been sidelined by the National Conference who have started voicing their support for having Chief Ministers on a rotational basis. They have realised the dangers behind the Congress decision to allow Omar to complete six-year term on the plea that under the rotational system chief Ministers perform well and honour the coalition dharma. |
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