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| JKPCC likely to ask high command to replace Omar? | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Nov 1: Reports from Srinagar and Jammu leave none in any doubt that the Congress has decided to intensify its activities in the coming days calculated to make the Congress high command see reason, appreciate aspirations of local Congress workers and go in for rotational chief minister. Yesterday, Congress leaders, including JKPCC office-bearers, those controlling the District Congress Committees and others gathered at the party headquarters in Jammu and Srinagar to pay homage to former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. They used this opportunity to not only denounce PHE Minister Taj Mhi-ud-Din for what were described as his anti-party activities as well as Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and NC additional general secretary Mustafa Kamal for what they had been doing to harm the interests of the Congress and vitiate the state's security environment by raking up controversial issues but also to give a concrete shape to their demand seeking replacement of Omar Abdullah by some Congress leader.
The reports from party headquarters in Srinagar and Jammu clearly suggest that there is broader consensus on the issue among the Congressmen. The reports from Kashmir even suggest that the Kashmiri Congress leaders and workers have decided to adopt a resolution on rotational chief minister to be forwarded to the Congress high command in a couple days. The most striking aspect of the whole situation is that almost everyone in the Congress party is speaking in one language, thus indicating that the state Congress leaders have decided to work together to achieve the stated objective. This, notwithstanding the fact that Congress national spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi yesterday gave a hint that Omar Abdullah would continue to lead the coalition government for full six years. This, also notwithstanding the statement of JKPCC in-charge Mohan Prakash that the need of the time was to strengthen the coalition and that the high command had as of now not thought of any change of guard in Jammu and Kashmir.
The statements of Singhvi and Prakash might have gone down well with the NC, which at the moment feels threatened because of the fast-growing mistrust between it and the Congress, as also because of the bitter opposition of the Congress to the NC's move on the AFSPA. But it is the attitude of the local Congress leadership that matters and the situation right now is that the state Congress leaders are not going to oblige the Congress high command for reasons not difficult to understand.
The situation as it exists today in the state is similar to the one as it existed in October 2005, when the term of the then PDP president and state chief minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed was nearing its end. The Mufti's term was to end on November 1. Nobody had in October 2005 even imagined that things would change so soon that the Mufti would be asked to quit and Ghulam Nabi Azad to take over from him. But it happened and happened in no time, notwithstanding the propaganda in the state and outside to the contrary. Had anyone in the state imagined till the other day that the state Congress leadership would forget their differences and come on one platform demanding ouster of Omar Abdullah? None really, but it has happened.
If the Congress high command, which was for the continuation of the Mufti, could yield in 2005 under mounting pressure from the local Congress leadership, why can't it do the same this time when the pressure is more intense and the relations between the NC and the Congress far more bitter. The Congress high command cannot and must not offend the local Congress leadership, its backbone in the state. And, hence, it would be too premature to say that the power struggle between the NC and the Congress has ended and all the obstacles in the way of Omar Abdullah removed. The struggle is very much on and it would take few more days for things to crystallize. As of now, the game is wide open. |
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