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| PDP fires its salvo against family rule | | | Day in and day out the PDP leadership has one obsession. Only single obsession. It is keen to see its main political foe, the National Conference,out of power. It is following the same route which the National Conference had followed for about five years, between 2002 and 2008.Another similarity in the campaign launched by the PDP leadership at present and the one launched by the NC leadership between 2002 and 2005 is that both have been avoiding targeting the Congress. During the last over two years the PDP leadership has not fired a single salvo against the congress which shares power with the NC.Between 2002 and 2008 the NC leadership would cherish castigating the PDP without blaming the Congress which shared power.If the PDP leadership has been soft on the Congress it is not because the congress is not a sinner. If the NC has been, in the past, silent on the Congress performance it was not the outcome of any belief that the Congress has not been involved in any ommission and commission.And of late the PDP Chief,Mehbooba Mufti, started urging people to emulate the voters in Tamil Nadu and West Bengal.
In support of her contention she has been trying to convince people in Jammu and Kashmir that the situation has taken a turn and there was no room for dynastic or family rule.She has urged people of Jammu and Kashmir to look beyond the beaten political track. Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti has called for a reassessment of the role of traditional parties which have monopolised power politics for decades.“Parties established by grandfathers and dominated by sons and grandsons have outlived their utility and relevance and have been dumped by the people in states like West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and earlier in Bihar and UP,” Mehbooba has stated.She has conveyed to people that in the state, National Conference is a party of the past and people especially the youth should try out newer options on the basis of their programmes, agenda and performance. PDP, she said is gaining acceptability on the strength of its
forward-looking agenda of peace and resolution and performance during its brief stint in government when it set new standards of governance. On the other hand NC was getting squeezed out of political space and remained part of the power structure only by nurturing its lifelines at the cost of state’s dignity, political authority and economic assets.
This clearly indicates that the PDP has one and only one mission of seeing the NC out of power.Why the two political rivals have been playing soft towards the Congress?Both the NC and the PDP leadership has realised that Jammu and Kashmir is no longer a ground for a one-party rule.The coalition politics seems to have come to stay in Jammu and Kashmir as has been the case not only in the centre but in other states too.And the options in Jammu and Kashmir are limited for forging and framing alliances.Since the PDP and the NC are unlikely to opt for an alliance the only alternative left in the state is that either it can have PDP-Congress coalition or the NC-Congress alliance.Hence both the PDP an the NC do not want to demolish the bridge that can link them with the Congress.Since the performance graph of the Omar Abdullah led Government has not been able to show any major upward curve the PDP leadership is trying to keep the congress in
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humour so that in any eventuality the state could have a PDP-Congress coalition Government.The Congress leadership is equally clever as it is opposed to burning the bridge with the PDP and the NC.No doubt successful and incident free Panchayat election has proved a feather in the cap of Omar A|bdullah but it alone cannot ensure survival of the NC in case the rate of ommissions and commissions keep on rising. |
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