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| Let UP, Goa, Punjab poll results hold a lesson for Congress in J&K | | | Though the Congress has failed to secure absolute majority in the Assembly elections in four out of five states, where the poll results were declared on Tuesday, its performance, as far as seat bagging feat is concerned, is definitely better than what it had achieved in 2007 elections. However, its poll fortune dwindled and declined in Goa where it was mauled by the BJP. In the 2007 elections the Congress had won 16 seats against 14 by the BJP and the Congress high command may have to find out the reasons that led to its debacle in Goa. Now that the Assembly elections in five states is over the Congress, which has ruled the state of Uttar Pradesh for more than 20 years, has to reckon with its poor performance in the country's densly populated state. The only satisfaction for the Congress in UP is that it has bagged more seats this time than it had won in 2007.Five years ago the Congress had to remain content with 22 seats in its bag. As far as Punjab and Uttarakhand states are concerned the Congress performance has been better than what it had achieved five years ago. In 2007 Congress had won 21 seats in Uttarakhand and 44 in Punjab. Similarly This time it has added four to eight seats in its kitty in each of these two states. This time it has been a neck to neck story between the Congress and the BJP in Uttarakhand and between the Akali Dal- BJP combine and the Congress in Punjab.
With whatever success or fialure in its kitty in the just concluded Assembly elections is the Congress now in a position to assume the role of a big brother in Jammu and Kashmir where it shares power with the National Conference? Before one is sure about it one has to reckon with the role AICC general secretary, Rahul Gandhi, played in these elections, especially his hectic campaigning in UP, and that of Gulchain Singh Charak a congress leader from Jammu who was incharge of the Congress affairs in Punjab. While Rahul Gandhi failed to help the Congress in getting even the second place in the seat haul in UP Charak equally was unable to enable the Congress to unseat the Akali Dal-BJP combine in Punjab. This way the size and stature of Rahul Gandhi, who has supported Omar Abdullah during the last three years against the wishes and the interest of the state unit of the Congress and that of Gulchain Sngh Charak, who has been providing sustenance and strength to the dissidents, led by Ghulam Nabi Azad, union Health Minister, in Jammu and Kashmir.
If the Congress has failed in gaining power in Punjab and in securing even 25 per cent of the total Assembly seat in Uttar Pradesh it is the result of dissensions within the Congress units in the two states. Again if the BJP failed to improve its performance in Uttarakhand it is again the result of factionalism in the party. Hence this incident itself should be an eye opener for the Congress high command as far as highly sensitive state of Jammu and Kashmir is concerned. With the birth of the PDP, a regional party, Congress has been in a position to be a king maker. It first was a maker of Congress-PDP coalition Government and since 2008 it has been sharing power with the National Conference. This does not mean that the political atmosphere and the shape of political permutation and combination in Jammu and Kashmir in future may always favour the Congress to be a king maker. If the Congress high command has learnt a lesson or two from the election results in Punjab and UP the AICC needs to take in hand measures that could end the ongoing tussle between the dissidents and the loyalists. The next Assembly election in Jammu and Kashmir is due in 2014 and the Congress should set its house in order right now failing which it may lose strength and stature to be a king maker.
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