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| Azad absolutely right, no rift between him, NC | | Sidelining Soz | | NEHA
JAMMU, May 4: Union Health Minister and former J&K Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Wednesday only spoke the truth and nothing but truth at Devsar, Kulgam (Kashmir), when he pooh-poohed reports about rift between him, Congress party and the NC, which is leading the State Government. There is no rift between him and Chief Minister Omar Abdullah. There should be no doubt it. Had there been any rift between him or the group of Congress dissidents that he leads in the State and Omar Abdullah and his NC, Azad would not have again and again and yet again extended his fullest possible cooperation to the Chief Minister; he would not have asserted day in and day out that Omar Abdullah would continue to hold the office of Chief Minister for full term.
Yes, at Billawar and Bhaderwah only recently, Azad had at public rallies said that Omar-led coalition Government has either delayed or stopped the projects started by him when he ruled the State between November 2005 and July 7, 2008 and that the Congress party deserves two more berths in the State Cabinet and Chief Minister needs to return R&B and Education portfolios to his party. But very soon he realized that he had committed a mistake by criticizing the Chief Minister. He took no time in rectifying his mistake by telling his Devsar audience that he never meant what he said at Billawar and Bhaderwah and that what he said should not be taken as an attack on the "coalition partner". "The Congress is a part of the State Government and any criticism about working of Government by me or somebody else should not be taken as an attack on the coalition partner, NC…Criticism should be used in a constructive manner. When I criticize the working of the government that means I am criticizing Congress ministers too and not targeting the Chief Minister or any other member of the NC alone," he said to clear his position and conciliate the angry Chief Minister and others in the NC.
What Azad said at Devsar should leave none in any doubt that he and the group of dissidents that he leads and Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and the government that he leads are on the same page and that there is perfect understanding between the two. And, what Azad said must please the Chief Minister and his uncle and NC additional general secretary who hates the Congress party and New Delhi from the core of his heart. Both the Chief Minister and his uncle must be feeling relieved and vindicated and laughing at the JKPCC president who, everyone knows, has no love lost either for the Chief Minister or for his provocative uncle.
What Azad said at Devsar not only proved that he and the Chief Minister are on the same page but also suggested that his target was the JKPCC president Prof Saif-ud-Din Soz. Azad and the Azad loyalists are, it appears, working as per a strategy to sideline Soz and capture the Congress organization which right now is under the complete control of the present incumbent. The fact of the matter is that there is no rift between Azad and NC. There is serious rift but only between him and Soz. It's advantage to Omar Abdullah and disadvantage to the Congress party which is already at the receiving end for obvious reasons, the most notable being its utter failure to deliver on any front and its association with the rabidly anti-Jammu NC.
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