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| Coalition worried over PDP's popularity in border regions | | | Early Times Report
rajouri, Jan 20: The growing popularity of Peoples Democratic party (PDP) in the border region of Poonch-Rajouri has been giving sleepless nights to the coalition partners. Rajouri has shocked Congress and National Conference. It has taken a heavy toll of NC especially. The latest example is the entry of Chowdhary Qamer Hussain of Rajouri in the party fold who was earlier associated with Congress and had contested on Congress ticket from Rajouri in 2002 assembly elections, but had finished second at that time.
Qamer is not alone in the region who joined PDP in the past few months, National Conference has already suffered a big loss by losing its influential cadres in Poonch district . The example is the entry of Shah Mohammad Tantray and Shehzaad Ahedm Khan of Poonch in to PDP only few months back.
Both Khan and Tantray exercised influence in NC and were in the proposed panel list of the party candidates in 2008 assembly elections.
The sources say that many influential people had plans of joining the PDP Sources said, these leaders visited the area and sitting MLC Murtaza Khan and they have expressed their wish to join party. When contacted, Murtaza Khan confirmed the reports. " Yes some more influential leaders of the area belonging to NC are in touch with me and they have expressed their wish to join party , but I am yet to take up this matter with party high command ( Mufti Sahib) the final decision will be taken by him only", says Murtaza Khan , the founder member of the party.
When asked whether the new entrants had been promised a ticket, he said no. " No body has xpressed such wish or put any such condition. In fact, the people are impressed with the performance of Mufti Sahib as chief minister of the state", he said adding that neither any new entrant has expressed such wish nor party can give any such advance assurance. " The people are lured by the performance of the party it has shown during its period . Moreover, Mufti Sahib has always been against any sort of political corruption and giving advance assurance of mandate or any other favor is also some sort of political corruption . We can not do so", added Murtaza Khan.
Commenting on the situation, a senior leader of National Conference wishing not to be named also admitted that some influential cadres of the party are inclined towards PDP and the trend seems dangerous for the future of the party . "We can not stop it because the cadres are changing their loyalties on seeing the mood of the voters . Our government has done nothing in the past three years due to which were are not in position to face the masses", he said.
He admitted that PDP has posed serious threat to their party in the region . It is pertinent to mention here that Poonch and Rajouri border region has always been strong bastion of National Conference in the past . In 1996 assembly elections, NC had won 5 out of seven assembly seats of the region. Similarly, in 2002 assembly elections, NC had won four out of seven and three had gone to Congress. While the PDP opened its account only in 2008 elections by wining two seats Darhal in Rajouri and Mendhar in Poonch. And National Conference was reduced to three seat only out seven, while rest of the two seats had gone to Congress. |
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