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| Cong can't blame NC alone for misgovernance, misdeeds | | Unholy Alliance | |
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JAMMU, Aug 10: Senior Congress leaders on Saturday held the mal-administration, bad governance and misdeeds of the National Conference (NC) squarely responsible for the humiliating defeat of the
Congress candidates in Jammu and Ladakh in the just-held Lok Sabha polls. The nature of the defeat of the Congress could be gauged from the fact that even former J&K CM and Union Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad lost his election to the BJP with a huge margin. Top Congress leadership castigated the NC leadership during the one-day convention of party workers at Kathua - convention which was addressed, among others, by AICC general secretary and in-charge J&K Ambika Soni, JKPCC chief Saif-ud-Din Soz and Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad.
Of all the Congress leaders who addressed the convention, Soz was more critical of the NC. Acknowledging without mincing words that the Congress suffered because the people had turned against the NC, he, inter-alia, said: "I realized that there was strong anger against the NC in the whole state, in general, and the Kashmir valley, in particular. This anger was responsible for the debacle of the party".
He also said that in Kashmir the Congress couldn't transfer its votes to the coalition candidates (all NC men) because people were highly hostile towards the NC and misgovernance was one of the factors. Soz and others who held the misgovernance and misdeeds responsible for the defeat of the Congress didn't do justice to the NC which, of course, had been in the driver's seat since January 2009 and which failed to deliver on any front. After all, Omar Abdullah was not running a single-party government; he was heading a coalition government of which the Congress was an integral and the most crucial part. After all, it was the State Cabinet of which the NC and the Congress were the two constituents which took all the decisions and decided policy matters. Both were responsible as both ruled or misruled the state together.
The fact of the matter is that the Congress was a party to each and every step that the government took after January 2009. If the NC was responsible for misgovernance, mal-administration and misdeeds, the Congress was also equally responsible. That the Congress never opposed any of the action of the Chief Minister in the real sense of the term could be seen from the fact that the former not even once threatened to quit the government in case the Chief Minister failed to heed to its advice and accept its any of its proposals. On the contrary, all the Congress ministers, without any exception, gave their fullest possible support the Chief Minister, with one senior minister even taking on his own party colleagues in the government over the issue of rotational chief ministership. The Congress cannot fool the people by criticizing the NC and sharing power with it at the same time. That the Congress leadership is simply misleading the people can be seen from the fact that the Congress is still a part of the NC-led government. If it really means what it said at Kathua, it must order all of its ministers to come out of the government forth with. Not to do so and continue to share power with the NC would simply means that it didn't mean what it said at Kathua and that the Congress cannot remain without power. Indeed, people are fed up with politics of deceit. |
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