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| Fear of defeat forced NC-Congress keep the coalition intact | | Modi-Mufti Effect | | Neha
JAMMU, Feb 2: This reporter repeatedly wrote in these columns during the past few days that the NC was only using pressure tactics to force
the Congress to fall in line on the issue of new administrative units and that neither the NC nor the Congress would go out of the government to face the electorate separately, as both the coalition partners are mortally afraid of the popularity of BJP Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi in Jammu province and Cold-Desert Ladakh and the power of Mufti Mohammad Sayeed and Mehbooba Mufti in the Kashmir Valley.
That the NC and the Congress would not part ways and contest the upcoming Lok Sabha elections together was a foregone conclusion and what happened yesterday during the Cabinet meeting or the manner in which Chief Minister Omar Abdullah accepted virtually in no time the Tara Chand-headed Cabinet Sub-Committee report on new administrative units and the manner in which the JKPCC hailed the acceptance of the recommendations of the CSC only vindicated those who had from day one maintained that both the parties were enacting political dramas of sorts and seeking to score political points to convince their respective constituencies that they could depend on them.
Had Omar Abdullah resigned from his office or had the Congress gone out of the coalition government, they would have been in deep trouble as such a development would have made the task of the BJP and the PDP rather easy. Omar Abdullah was very clear that if his party would go to the polls all alone, the PDP would win all the three Lok Sabha seats in Kashmir hands down. Likewise, the JKPCC was of the view that if it goes to the polls all alone, the BJP would win both the Lok Sabha seats in Jammu province with a substantial margin. It was this factor that forced the NC and the Congress to remain together at least
till May.
However, there are cogent reasons to believe that even if the Congress and the NC go to the polls together, the BJP in Jammu province and the PDP in Kashmir province would be able to turn tables on the coalition partners. The reasons are not far to seek and one of the reasons is that the both the Congress and the NC have lost their sheen and appeal over the years owing to their utter failure to deliver on any front, as also owing to their divisive and anti-people and anti-democratic policies. |
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