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| Cong the weakest organization in Jammu and Kashmir | | Revolt In MPCC | | Early Times Report
Jammu, July 24: On July 22, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), a constituent of the UPA, rose in revolt both against the Union Government and Government of Maharashtra. The charge of the NCP leadership was that the Congress at the Centre and in the State behaves in a dictatorial manner and takes its constituents for a ride. Political observers say the NCP leadership took this extreme step for political and personal reasons and ensure that the Union Government elevates the position of its national president Sharad Pawar in the Union Government and the Government of Maharashtra drops cases of corruption against the NCP Ministers and endorses other demands of the NCP. Political observers do make a point. The NCP is sharing power with the Congress at the Centre and Maharashtra.
Today, as many as 42 Congress MLAs revolted against Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithvi Raj Chavan. Their grievances are many. For example, they are not happy with the style of functioning of Chavan, who is a Congressman. Their other complaint is that the Chief Minister is not accessible and that he is behaving in a manner that has hampered developmental activities in their respective constituencies. The reports suggest that these 42 Congress MLAs have written a letter to the Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) president Manikrao Thakre and AICC president Sonia Gandhi demanding their immediate intervention so that the Congress is able to function in the State and prepare itself for the coming Assembly elections.
This shows that the Congress MLAs in Maharashtra have the capacity and guts to take on their own Chief Minister and create a situation that will surely force Sonia Gandhi to intervene taking into consideration the complaint of the party legislators. The fact is that the Congress legislators in many States have from time to time taken cudgels with their leadership in order to demonstrate their strength and fight for what they consider is right.
But here in Jammu & Kashmir the Congress legislators have been at the receiving end for years now with even the Congress Ministers not caring for them. No one listens to them. No one recognizes them. The truth is that most of the people do not even know the names of many Congress legislators. Such is the situation. They hardly take up public-related issues. If at all they take up such issues, none in the Government, not even the Congress Ministers, take cognizance of what they say. As for the Chief Minister and the National Conference Ministers, they keep the Congress legislators away. The Congress legislators have on occasions taken up certain issues with those who actually matter in the party and the Government, but without evoking any response whatever. Almost all of them are fed up with the NC and the style of functioning of Chief Minister, but they do not have the courage to stand up and tell the NC leadership that enough is enough and that the needs of their constituencies are no different from the constituencies the NC and the Congress Ministers represent in the legislature. There were some who wanted the present Chief Minister to go after he completed three years in office, but their mouths were shut by those who mattered the party.
It would be only appropriate to say that the Congress in Jammu & Kashmir is divided into three parts, party which is also faction-ridden, Congress Ministers and Congress MLAs. The Congress party is behaving in its own typical style, thus enabling the NC to enjoy absolute powers and rule or misrule the State unhindered. The NC is trying to consolidate its position at the cost of the Congress. The Congress Ministers are behaving as if they are independent entities. There is a great disconnect between the party and most of the Congress Ministers. As far as the unemployed Congress MLAs and MLCs are concerned, they are left with no other option but to do some politicking and further their own personal interests to the extent they can in the prevailing hostile environment.
There is a view even within the Congress that "most of the Congress MLAs have no mass experience" and that "the Congress Ministers are working against the interest of the party in order to remain on the right side of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah". There is also a view within the party that "if remedial measures are not taken immediately, the party would suffer the worst ever defeat in the State as and when elections are held". If one goes by the credible sources within the party, then it can be said that "most of the JKPCC functionaries and Congress workers believe that their Ministers and MLAs are more responsible for the growing unpopularity of the party than the NC". |
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