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| Reminding all of old fable, Soz moved at tortoise pace in 2011 to consolidate position in party | | | Bharat Bhushan
JAMMU, Jan 15: As one may recall, the tortoise was often teased by hare for how slow it moved. In the race between them, it was, however, the tortoise that won. Reminding all of this old childhood fable, Saifudin Soz moved ahead at slow-and-steady pace in 2011 to consolidate his position as PCC chief.
He very quietly quipped back to the boasts of so many "hares" in his party and proved that all of them could be beaten together at tortoise pace.
While they were busy in finding faults with him, he toured extensively last year across the state and addressed series of public meetings. This was his candid reply to all of them.
He did not get involved in a war of words with them but focussed only on his work. He moved inch by inch and used words very judiciously. His this strategy helped him to further strengthen his position as PCC chief, leaving his detractors behind.
Even as a strong lobby worked against him within the Congress, he dismissed his rivals as a group of few "disgruntled" elements and not a parallel faction, as the latter would like to put it.
The most important for him was the backing of the party high command which made him more confidant and because of which he remanied undeterred by the infighting and internal bickerings.
He also tried to raise the morale of the party cadre when he said in public meetings that he did not want the Congress to remain 'B-team' of NC, or PDP. He strongly felt that the party had the potential to emerge as a front-runner in state politics.
In public meetings, he also projected Congress as a secular party and said there were many takers of its ideology in all three regions of the state.
He said his travels and meetings with workers across the state as PCC chief might have hurt those who had benefited from the earlier stagnation, especially in the valley.
The PCC president was also vocal in castigating "some" who, according to him, had a vested interest in showing the party leadership in a poor light. Most of them were those who were either denied ministerial berths or party posts.
He felt that if the Congress was to emerge stronger, the disgruntled factions would have to be reined in. He held factionalism responsible for the party's poor performance in the valley in the last assembly polls.
The anti-Soz leaders are those who are believed to be close to union minister Ghulam Nabi Azad.
A senior Congress leader, who had an army of Congress leaders against him because of varied reasons, enjoys tacit backing of Azad. He had gone to the extent of holding parallel meetings, as seen on the death anniversary of Indira Gandhi.
G M Saroori is another Azad loyalist. Saroori was made minister but seniormost Congress leader Mohammad Sharief Niaz, who earlier held the power portfolio, was dropped from the cabinet, much to the surprise of the majority PCC leaders.
Soz, however, never named his detractors or blamed Azad for any act of indiscipline in the party. He held the view that the high command should act where there were proved cases of indiscipline. |
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