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| With Azad,Karan Singh & Fotedar in CWC J&K gets major share | | (Behind the veil) | |
Early Times Report
Jammu,March 6 :-The troubled state of Jammu and Kashmir has received a fair share of seats in the reconstituted Congress Working Committee (CWC).When the Congress President Sonia Gandhi announced names of party men for the CWC on Friday Jammu and Kashmir got a bigger share than those states that have bigger population and area than the Jammu and Kashmir.
Ghulam Nabi Azad,Union Health Minister, who hails from Jammu and Kashmir is one among the 19-member CWC which is headed by Sonia Gandhi. Since he holds the cabinet post in the union council of ministers headed by Manmohan Singh he could not be considered for General Secretaryship,the post that he had held in the past for several years.
As AICC General Secretary Ghulam Nabi Azad had supervised Congress campaign in various states during the Assembly and the Lok Sabha elections. He is one leader from Jammu and Kashmir who has remained close to Indira Gandhi,Rajiv Gandhi and now to Sonia Gandhi.
Three other Congress leaders who have figured in the CWC as permanent invitees include Dr Karan Singh, MP, M.L.Fotedar and G.S.Charak,whose inclusion hs surprised many in Jammu. In fact, except for a few years, Fotedar has also remained close to the Gandhi family.At one stage he was considered part of Indira's kitchen cabinet during the time she and later Rajiv Gandhi occupied the chair of Prime Ministership.This way a small state like Jammu and Kashmir has four Congress leaders in the CWC.
Not only this, Jammu and Kashmir is the only state which has been placed under the charge of two CWC leaders. Mohan Prakash and Shakeel Ahmed have been given the charge of Jammu and Kashmir when bigger states including West Bengal have been placed under the charge of only one CWC leader.
Two senior leaders have been given the charge of Jammu and Kashmir because Sonia Gandhi is eager to see her party retain its influence in the state. The AICC President has one satisfaction that the Congress has been able to gain power, even if in alliance first with the PDP and now with the National Conference, since 2002.A feat that the Congress has not been able to perform in UP and Bihar for the last several years.
Since the party President wants to further strengthen the Congress in Jammu and Kashmir it has avoided taking action against the dissidents who were trying to harm the organization within.Intead Sonia Gandhi has reposed trust in Ghulam Nabi Azad,who heads the camp of dissidents, in keeping the state unit up and kicking.
Well Azad is a tested Gandhi family loyalist but that should not be treated as license for his role in weakening the Congress in Jammu and Kahmir.Just one word from Sonia to Azad is enough to motivate him to close the camp of dissidents by telling them to fall in line with the loyalists, led by Saif-ud-Din Soz.
And Sonia Gandhi has done what the ruling leadership in Jammu and Kashmir has not been able to do. She has given representation to the three principal communities of Jammu and Kashmir in the CWC.Fotedar represents the Kashmiri Pandits, Azad the Muslims and Dr Karan Singh, and Charak the Dogras of the region of Jammu.
Reports from the camp reveal that loyalists are unhappy over the inclusion of Azad and Chrak in the CWC.They are happy that a leader from Jammu and Kashmir has become a member of the CWC but their unhappiness is the result of one fear that as member of the CWC Azad may be able to strengthen the dissidents against the interests of the party in Jammu and Kashmir.
Their fears may be unfounded if Sonia Gandhi intervenes and persuades Azad to keep his hands off Kashmir Congress affairs and issues directions to the dissidents to shut their shop and work with the PCC chief,Saif-ud-Din Soz.
In terms of financial assistance and share in the central cabinet the state of Jammu and Kashmir has retained a favourable slot. It is a different matter that major portion of the central funds either remain unutilized or are frittered away because of the bad governance. The Congress President, Sonia Gandhi, is said to be keen for strengthening the Congress in Jammu and Kashmir so that she can have one satisfaction that her party is in power in a state that is considered as the crown of India.(eom)
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