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| Local Congress workers VS Congress high command | | Rotational CM | | Rustam
JAMMU, Dec 26: The Congress leadership claims that it always represents people and respects their sentiments. It has every right to say anything, but the fact is that the general public has turned against it across the country. Hold general elections today and you will witness the Congress party biting dust and not winning even hundred seats. The custodians of the Congress and think-tanks of the party, who have lost touch with the masses, have been pursuing policies calculated to pit one section against the other, appease a particular section of society, humiliate the majority community on a daily basis and ensure that certain person remain at the helm of affairs and do whatever they want to promote their selfish interests.
The fact of the matter is that the Congress is not a party of common people. It is a party of high command with some Congress leaders in the states, who have no mass experience and no mass base, dancing to the tunes of the high command to enjoy the loaves and fishes of office at the cost of the nation. That the people are feeling so upset with the Congress and the UPA could be seen from the rise of Anna Hazare on the country's political horizon. Ignored and cheated people are joining him in their thousands. They are so fed up with the Congress, or for that matter most of the political formations, and they see in the person of Anna their saviour.
Not just this, the Congress high command and its representatives in different parts of the country have no regards whatever for the sentiments of the local party men, including the bulk of local leadership. The Congress high command, which basically consists of the mother and the son, takes the local party workers for a ride and behaves like dictators. Take, for example, the sentiment of bulk of the local Congress leaders and workers in Jammu and Kashmir. They are fed up with the existing power-sharing formula between the Congress and the NC, which has been leading the coalition government since January 5, 2009. They are of the considered view that anymore truck with the NC would destroy the Congress party in Jammu province, the Kashmir Valley, and even Ladakh. They want some Congress leader to lead the state after the present incumbent completes three years in office. They believe that the NC leadership has rendered the Congress in the state ineffective and unreal. They also believe that certain Congress ministers are working against the Congress party for purely personal reasons.
The JKPCC president knows all this. That's the reason he has at no point of time during the last one year or so overruled the possibility of some Congress leader taking over from Omar Abdullah. His consistent stand that it is for the high command to take a final decision explains everything, including an admission that the Congress men want Omar Abdullah to go. And, it was not for nothing that two very senior Congress leaders and former Union Minister Makhan Lal Fotedar and Karan Singh had last summer openly vouched for rotational chief ministership, a suggestion that had led to a bitter war of words between the NC leadership and Fotedar and others. They had taken this stand only after feeling the pulse of the local Congress leadership and workers at the grass-roots level. The mood of the bulk of the Congressmen is the same even today. They want change of guard. There should be no doubt about it.
Let's see what the high command finally does in the next 10 days. One must keep his/her fingers crossed because the Congress high command can spring any kind of surprise. It can overlook the sentiments of local Congressmen and allow Omar Abdullah to continue because it has in the past abdicated its authority to placate Sheikh Abdullah who didn't have a single legislator either in the legislative assembly or in the legislative council. It can also dislodge Omar Abdullah the way it dislodged Mufti Mohammad Sayeed and in no time. Remember, the Congress high command had decided to dislodge Mufti Mohammad Sayeed on the last day when he completed three years in office on November 4, 2005. As for Mufti Sayeed, he was very confident that the high command would not disturb the status quo. In any case, the next 10 days are days of political uncertainty and hectic political activities behind-the-curtain. |
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