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SRINAGAR, Nov 7: Although elections to the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly are only due towards the end of 2014, the state's ruling coalition and the main opposition party seem to be readying for these to be held along with the Lok Sabha polls. Congress Vice-President, Rahul Gandhi's visit to Jammu and Kashmir is seen as the coalition partner's readying for earlier elections in the state.
In fact, one of the senior Congress Ministers in Omar Abdullah led coalition Government is on record as saying the two elections would be held later this year or early next year.
Sources in both the ruling National Conference (NC) and alliance partner Congress say the latter's high command favors simultaneous polls, whether the general elections are held in May or earlier, depending on the political situation in the country.
The Congress logic behind the assembly election to be held along with the Parliament elections is certainly that the alliance partners might go their own way for the assembly polls depriving the NC the flexibility of choosing its future partners.
It is also said that the Congress high command fear that if the two elections are spaced apart, the NC would get crucial time to choose a new alliance partner - or go solo - for the Assembly polls in case the United Progressive Alliance lost power at the Centre?
A Congress leader declined to comment on these possibilities but did not disagree that the two elections would be held simultaneously if the Congress high command so desired.
Asked whether the Congress would pull out of the alliance if the NC refused its demand to hold the two elections together, the Congress leader smiled saying: "Your guess, not mine."
Some people even say that NC and Congress Ministers, as also other leaders, have gone into election mode. Most of the senior NC Ministers are these days extensively touring their constituencies in the Valley. This has resulted in visitors calling on the Ministers' offices in the Civil Secretariat in winter capital Jammu returning disappointed.
On the other hand Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, patron of the main opposition People's Democratic Party (PDP), has also started extensively public meetings along the length and breadth of the state and has even nominated the candidates for one or two Loke Sabha seats, realignment of some political forces is also seen in the same light. |
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