Days
are the gone when Congress in Jammu and Kashmir was famous as a divided house.
Neither Common Minimum Programme nor Common Maximum Programme is needed between
coalition partners Congress-National Conference (NC). It was proved by partners
in elections held for Members of Legislative Council (MLC), widely called as
House of Elders. Coalition bagged 5 of six and principal opposition Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) got one seat.
One
and a half year back, story under caption ‘Congress factionalism to avoid
people’ by this journalist was not digested by some stalwarts of Congress in
state but now when the era of elections (Legislative Council, Panchyats) is on
these stalwarts were compelled to understand change of attitude among the party
leaders and members of both the factions. After about two years, it was only a
day before the elections for council when head of Jammu and Kashmir Congress
Saif-U-Din Soz and loyalist of Ghulam Nabi Azad head of other faction and
deputy chief minister Tara Chand shared table.
Come
the month of June, Panchyat elections will be over and the change in season of
Congress politics in state will again spread its wings for unspecified period
and will again change during coming elections of legislative council somewhere
in next year, just to avoid people and favor to their blue eyed. Lust of power
to Congress leaders has reduced their mentality to such lowest ebb that for
power they could go to any extent even do forget Mahatma Gandhi’s universal
mantra of non violence.
Congress
at the end of day in state of Jammu and Kashmir has its cadre in judiciary,
police and even has a full capacity of buying legislators of any party and at
any cost. Recently, as per the reports BJP legislators were bought by Congress
in coalition with National Conference to continue its dominance. Whatever, be
the situation in state, Congress has the important role to play as it has in
several states of country. Coalition era launched by Congress in state not only
has denigrated dignity of it but has evolved a sense of political instability
among all politicians.
Going
by new agenda of the party that Congress is committed for the unity of state.
As if state is going to break in pieces. Ask them, if India cannot effort
separation of Kashmir even after 23 years of blood shed and trauma who will
divide the state. But to keep people involved for no reason and to keep in power
Congress has to manage such political stunts. As per reports top brass leaders
are wishing to end factionalism but workers at grass root are victims of
factionalism. Result of which is that people belonging to Azad faction has been
withdrawn security and vehicles’ seized.