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| Horse trading in Congress | | Azad camp woos legislators | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Feb 5: -The dissidents in the state unit of the Congress have mounted a campaign against the health Minister, Sham Lal Sharma to force him and his brother Madan Lal Sharma, MP to join the Azad camp.
Party sources said that the dissidents have been trying to use Sham Lal Sharma's statement on Kashmir liberation for his expulsion from the cabinet despite the fact that the controversy ended after Sharma explained his position.
Sources said the dissidents had won over Lal Singh MP after he was told that Azad would not support him in the next Lok Sabha election. It is widely known that Lal Singh won the 2009 Lok Sabha poll only because of Azad's support as in 2008 he had lost the Assembly poll from Kathua constituency.Besides their campaign against Sharma the Azad led group was trying to persuade the party high command to allow GM Saroori to rejoin the cabinet. Saroori had been forced to resign after his daughter had been found involved in impersonation case during entrance examination.
Reports said that Azad has started mounting pressure on some senior leaders belonging to the camp of the loyalists so that they too join his camp thereby denying Saif-ud-Din Soz the right to claim that he headed a major section in the Congress comprising most of the legislators and the ministers.
A number of loyalists in the congress said that if Azad wanted action against Sham Lal Sharma he should first of all seek ouster of Omar Abdullah who had questioned the irrevocability of the state's accession with India by saying that Jammu Kashmir had not merged with India. Reports also stated that the Congress high command would initiate measures for ending the ongoing factional war within the state unit of the party. According to these reports, some senior Congrss leaders belong to the camp of loyalists plan to visit New Delhi and apprise AICC leaders of the machinations of the dissidents which had the potential of causing major erosion in the party.(KIP)
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