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| AICC Chief acts tough to keep state Congress intact | | New JKPCC chief gets Vakil sacked | | Fazal Khan
Early Times Report
srinagar, Mar 28: Congress party in Jammu and Kashmir is in total disarray after facing a humiliating defeat in the 2014 assembly elections. Despite party remaining in power for nearly 12-years, people voted against the party and Congress could only manage to get 12 out of 87 assembly seats.
The former Chief Minister of the state and senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad tried his best to rope in PDP to forge an alliance but couldn't succeed in his endevaour. Soon after the Congress lost the elections and the power the All India Congress Committee Chief Sonia Gandhi replaced the JKPCC Chief Professor Saifuddin Soz and appointed former Tourism Minister Ghulam Ahmed Mir, who contested the 2014 assembly elections unsuccessfully from Dooru in south Kashmir, as the new state Congress Chief.
Mir's appointment as the JKPCC Chief triggered resentment in the Congress camp and one of the senior leaders of the party Abdul Gani Vakil opposed the decision of the AICC chief Sonia Gandhi to appoint "tainted" Mir as the JKPCC Chief.
Vakil alleged that Mir was involved in sex scandal and he should not have been appointed as the JKPCC Chief. He called him junior most in the party and described his appointment to the top post as disastrous for the state Congress.
Vakil opposing the decision of the AICC chief to appoint Mir as the head of state Congress ostensibly annoyed Sonia Gandhi and she gave vent to her ire by axing Vakil from the post of the JKPCC Vice-President.
The new list of JKPCC office bearers which was released on Friday did not surprise anyone. There was no mention of Vakil in the list. Sonia after removing the name of Vakil appointed Janardan Dwivedi, , Sham Lai Sharma, G N Monga, Narhn Gialson as the vice-presidents of the party in J&K.
The AICC chief appointed Raman Bhalla, G M Saroori, Muhammad Anwar Bhat, Amreen Badre, Kanta Bhan, Haji Rashid Dar, Mula Ram as the treasurers, Krishan Kumar Amla Rajneesh Sharma are the co-treasurers while as Ravinder Sharma was appointed as the chief spokesman and Farooq Indrabi as spokesman.
Sources told Early Times soon after Vakil opposed Mir's appointment as the JKPCC chief, Mir took up the matter with the Congress high command and demanded stern action against him. The new JKPCC chief, according to the sources, informed Sonia Gandhi that indiscipline cannot be tolerated and if action is not taken against Vakil it would promote factionalism within the party. "Vakil faced the axe as the new state Congress chief wanted to send a message to party leaders that people who don't fall in the line would have to face the music," sources added.
Abdul Gani Vakil, who contested the 2014 assembly polls unsuccessfully from Rafiabad constituency in north Kashmir, sources said, is in touch with Peoples Democratic Party leaders and has shown inclination towards joining the PDP. However, Vakil had denied that he has any plans of joining any other political party. Sources said that Congress high command has taken a serious note of factionalism within the JKPCC and has passed strict instructions to new office bearers to ensure that they work as one unit rather than getting divided into camps. "BJP conquering the Congress bastions and parry stalwarts losing to debutants in the 2014 assembly polls has left the party red faced. Now Congress wants to regain its lost ground and most of its party leaders believe that it's not impossible," sources added. |
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