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| PCC reconstitution: Resentment over dumping of die hard "soldiers" | | |
Kunal Shrivatsa
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Apr 7: The resentment and heart burn among a section of the Congress rank and file is growing with each passing day as they are not ready to accept 'gross injustice' meted out to them in recently reconstituted Jammu & Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC).
If sources within the Congress are to be believed, the neglected lot in the party is particularly bitter over the fact that few ex-ministers have been bestowed with the responsibility of PCC office bearers while some others were made PCC Executive Members despite their heavy losses in the last Assembly elections.
"Regardless of their crushing defeats in the last Assembly polls, the former Congress ministers who served in the previous coalition government have been adjusted in the recently reconstituted PCC… It is an insult to thousands of dedicated and loyal party workers who are opposed to the inclusion of defeated ministers in the revamped PCC," sources said.
"While everywhere else including Maharashtra, Haryana and Jharkhand, the Modi factor may have played a significant role in BJP's victory and Congress debacle but here in J&K the party lost a considerable ground particularly in Jammu region in both the Lok Sabha as well as Assembly polls mainly due to anti-incumbency, alleged involvement of former Ministers in some scandals and charges of corruption against them," they added.
Sources said that the former Congress ministers lost due to their own follies and not just because of Modi wave.
"The public anger against Congress ministers had reached a boiling point and it was quite visible in the margins of defeats they sustained during Assembly polls…The disliking for the former ministers still persists as the Congress workers openly blamed them for party's poor showing in the series of meetings held after polls at PCC Headquarters Shaheedi Chowk, Sainik Colony and Shakti Nagar," sources said.
"A section of the party leaders and workers are ruing the fact that those who were responsible for the Congress downfall in the state especially in Jammu province have been entrusted with the job of resurrecting the party in the length and breadth of the state at the cost of dedicated workers who were completely sidelined," they added.
Sources maintained that keeping such a policy where defeated Ministers were rewarded with prize posting and key responsibilities by overlooking deserving and loyal party leaders would further widen the gap with the grass root level workers.
"A sense of alienation is already prevailing among a section of the party activists as they want that fresh faces should be inducted into thePCC while at the same time they seek ouster of tainted leaders from the PCC… They feel that due to their actions party has already paid a heavy price in the recent polls… If the party's highest decision making body did not change itself then the Congress has to sustain more damages in the days to come," sources said.
They said that PCC president was misled and misguided by a coterie of his advisors as far as induction of former ministers into the PCCwhich is not a good sign for a democratic party like Congress where loyalty and devotion towards the party is of paramount importance and anything else doesn't matter. |
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