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| Opportunity for Panthers Party to win over Jammu | | Legislative Council Elections | | Neha
JAMMU, Apr 2: Process to elect 6 members to the J&K Legislative Council has already been set-into-motion. The process would be completed in the second week of April. The composition of the Legislative Assembly is such that Kashmir-based and Valley-centric formations like the PDP would require support of the parties like the Panthers Party, which has three members in the Lower House. There are reports that the Panthers Party leadership and the PDP are hobnobbing with each other to ensure the victory of the PDP candidate/candidates and the vice-versa. The Panthers Party has also fielded candidates, overlooking the fact that it just can't win unless it gets support of the PDP. The Congress and the NC are unlikely to extend support to the Panthers Party candidates considering the nature of relationship between them. Even otherwise, these two parties are not in a position to spare any vote for the Panthers Party. It is obvious that the Panthers Party is banking upon the PDP. The Panthers Party had very cordial relations with the PDP when the led the state government for three years - November 2, 2002 to November 1, 2005. In fact, the PDP-led coalition government had two ministers belonging to the Panthers Party - one cabinet minister and one minister-of-state.
If the reports to the effect that the PDP and Panthers Party are hobnobbing with each other or entering into what the political observers call an "unholy alliance" are correct, then one can say without any hesitation that the Panthers Party leadership is taking a very dangerous plunge. The people of Jammu province, who witnessed the Panthers Party playing a great role in the Legislative Assembly, and even the Legislative Council -- Panthers Party has one MLC --, during the just concluded Assembly session, just cannot digest any kind of truck between the Panthers Party and the PDP. In fact, they would not like the Panthers Party to have any kind of relations with the NC and the Congress for the simple reason that they hold the Kashmir-based outfits, plus the Congress, squarely responsible for their utter neglect and all round degeneration. They have seen the Panthers Party, the BJP and the Jammu State Morcha (JSM) legislators - 15 in number - working in unison during the Assembly session and raising the Jammu-specific and nation-centric issues and they would want these Jammu-based outfits to work together in the future as well so that they play the role of a watchdog and defend their general political and economic rights and interests.
It is for the Panthers Party leadership to recognize the Jammu sentiment and evolve its poll strategy accordingly. Any failure on its part to do so or any move on its part to ally itself with the PDP and similar other Kashmir-based outfit, which stand for self-rule or limited accession, would only lower its position in the eyes of the people of Jammu province. The fact of the matter is that any electoral understanding between the Panthers Party and the PDP would expose the former and provide an opportunity to the people of Jammu province to expose its politics of duplicity and double-speak. They would surely ask: How could there be an understanding between a party that stands for the state's reorganization and national unity and a party that stands for internal sovereignty and for a change that empowers Pakistan to exercise co-equal powers with India into the Indian Jammu and Kashmir?
Can the Panthers Party barter away its long-term interests for some short-term gain? It's a million dollar question. Just wait and see what the Panthers Party leadership ultimately does. |
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