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| Soz drops a bomb on NC leadership | | | Early Times Report
jammu, Nov 11: If the latest statement of the PCC Chief, Saif-ud-Din Soz, is any guide the National Conference leadership needs to beware of a fresh thinking in the Congress as far as continuing with the present political arrangement is concerned.
In reply to a question Soz dished out two vital disclosures. One that the spirit of the coalition dharma was well maintained between the Congress and the PDP and the only problem rose when Ghulam Nabi Azad was installed as Chief Minister. Secondly the PCC Chief did not rule out the possibility of a revival of a PDP-Congress coalition rule.
Soz has said the Congress has kept open its option for forming a coalition Government with PDP. To him nothing is permanent in politics and there is no guarantee for any situation as circumstances decide. This way Soz seems to have opened his mind as far as his displeasure over the style of working of the Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah, is concerned.
His one line statement that National Conference has no history of sharing power should be an eye opener for Dr Farooq Abdullah who heads the party. To him National Conference having enjoyed power all alone has no temperament for sharing power.
Hence in the eyes of Soz the Congress-NC coalition Government is a matter of compulsion and neither of conviction nor or convenience. This way National Conference leadership may not take things for granted by ignoring the alliance partners and instead bank on Omar loyalists within the state unit of the Congress.
Inside reports said that Omar Abdullah had come to believe that it was not necessary for him to take into confidence Congress ministers besides the PCC Chief while framing and formulating important policies because of his close equation with the AICC general secretary, Rahul Gandhi, and the PHE Minister, Taj Mohiuddin who claims of having proximity with those Congress leaders who matter in New Delhi.
If anyone had some doubts on this issue Soz has set it at rest by making a startling disclosure that Rahul Gandhi has not been happy over the style of governance in Jammu and Kashmir. And Soz claims that Rahul had given vent to his displeasure when he had visited Kashmir in October.
And the NC leadership should forget about treating the Congress as a harmless baby. Since 2002 elections Jammu and Kashmir has opened its doors for the coalition Governments and the Congress has assumed the status of not only a king but a Government maker. If the NC wants to enjoy power it has to bank on the pleasure of the Congress. The NC leadership could have assumed the role of a Government maker had it been willing to form an alliance with its arch political rival, the PDP. It is not prepared allowing a chance to the Congress to dictate terms to the NC.
If the PDP dictated terms to the Congress in 2008 it did it only by quitting the Government. Fortunately or unfortunately NC leadership is not prepared to shun power in order to cut to size the Congress. |
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