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| Kamaal predicts Congress defeat in Jammu & Kashmir | | NC's No-Holds-Barred Campaign | | NEHA
JAMMU, Sept 4: On Sunday, NC additional general secretary Mustafa Kamaal exposed the Congress by saying that its stand on 73rd and 74th constitutional amendments was misleading. He had said that while its youth wing had been holding protest demonstrations on the issue, the Congress lawmakers had never spoken a word during the past three years on the floor of the assembly. He had also accused the Congress Ministers of ignoring the NC workers and threatened that the NC would not mind snapping its ties with the Congress in the event of the Congress ministers not changing their attitude towards the NC workers and cadre. Kamaal made these statements at Rajouri where he had gone to address his party workers.
As expected, the weak-kneed Congress did not react to what Kamaal had said, despite the fact that what he had said was quite provocative. Kamaal's attack didn't sting the Congress. Kamaal had questioned the very nature and intention of the local Congress leadership by saying what he said without mincing words. That none in the Congress could muster courage to take on Kamaal simply suggests that the entire Congress leadership is suffering from a particular complex. It also suggests that the local Congress leadership has raised its hands, thus creating an impression in the state that it is the NC which is the chief factor in the government and that its only role is to play to the tunes of the NC, endorse whatever the NC says and does and keep its mouth shut even if the provocation is grave; even if the NC leadership abuses, ridicules and humiliates it. The silence of the Congress could not be interpreted in other way.
Knowing it fully well that the local Congress leadership has lost its confidence and that it is in complete disarray, Kamaal yesterday again took on it and said that the Congress would suffer a defeat as and when elections are held. Official hand out issued on his behalf in this regard said: "The Congress ministers and the administration in Rajouri are giving scant attention to their (NC workers) genuine demands and actions. On account of this attitude of the Congress ministers, the administration is heavily biased against NC workers and cadre…The Congress may get away with this unjust attitude while it shares power in the state, but will certainly be on the receiving end at the hustings…The NC cannot afford to lose its popularity because of the negative Congress attitude". What he said was not just a direct attack on the Congress, but it also meant that the Congress has fallen from grace and that the people are just waiting for an opportunity to punish it for its acts of omission and commission.
Nobody would agree that the NC additional secretary is taking on the Congress party on his own and that the NC president and the Chief Minister do not appreciate his approach towards it. He is attacking the Congress party as per a strategy diligently evolved with a view to targeting the local Congress leadership and lowering its position in the eyes of the people. Had the NC president and Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy and the Chief Minister not approved of what the party additional general secretary had been doing on a daily basis, things would have been quite different and Kamaal would have thought hundred times before speaking even a word against the Congress leadership, including Ministers. There are reasons to believe that Kamaal would further sharpen his attacks against the Congress in the coming days. One thing more is clear: The Congress is destined to lose more political space to its political rivals, particularly in Jammu Pradesh. In Kashmir, it has already become irrelevant. It has only a few pockets of influence in the Valley and it is not because the Congress is popular in those pockets, but because of the local Congress leaders. It would be the BJP and the JKNPP which would be benefited.
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