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| 'Jammu, Ladakh rejected NC and its divisive politics long back' | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 12: NC president and former J&K Chief Minister's assertion that his party has presence in all the three regions of the State is flawed and exaggerated. "National Conference alone can give a stable and people-friendly Government in Jammu and Kashmir, keeping in view its presence in all the three regions of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh. The party will prove it whenever elections are held," he made this assertion while admitting Saraf Singh Nag, a former KAS officer, into National Conference at Sher-e-Kashmir Bhawan in Jammu.
"The 2014 verdict and the obtaining political stalemate in the State has proven beyond doubt that reactionary and divisive parties may manage temporary electoral gains by whipping up passions and polarising the situation but ultimately they cannot sustain the mandate, which is imperative for giving a sustainable Government in a sensitive State like Jammu and Kashmir", Farooq also said. Obviously, he hinted at the BJP and the PDP, which is the NC's arch-political rival in the Kashmir Valley and which has captured bulk of the political space of the National Conference in the Valley.
The National Conference started loosing its sheen and appeal immediately after October 1996, when it came into power after winning 57 seats in the 87-member House. It lost its popularity because it failed to deliver on any front. It became a laughing stock in 2000, when the then NDA Government at the Centre rejected with contempt the National Conference's divisive autonomy committee report.
That the National Conference had lost its appeal became clear in 2002, when it could win only 28 seats, 29 less than what it had won in 1996. The PDP, which came into being only in 1999, snatched 16 seats from the National Conference and formed coalition Government with the Congress in November 2002. The National Conference couldn't improve its tally even in 2008 despite the fact that it was largest opposition party in the State Assembly. The PDP, on the other hand, further improved its position in the Valley. The NC suffered a massive defeat six years later in the Assembly elections. It could win only 15 seats, 11 from Kashmir and four from Jammu. The people of Ladakh, like the people of Jammu province, rejected outrightly the party of the Abdullahs. Omar Abdullah himself lost the elections from the "safe" constituency and could make win from another "safe" constituency by a slender margin of about 100 votes. His uncle and former Minister Mustafa Kamaal lost his security deposit.
Earlier in the Lok Sabha elections held just six months before the crucial Assembly elections, the PDP inflicted a crushing defeat on the National Conference. The PDP won all the three seats in Kashmir and the nature of the defeat of the party of the Abdullahs could be seen from the fact that even Farooq Abdullah lost the election to the PDP candidate Tariq Hamid Karra by a huge margin of about 80,000 votes. The National Conference suffered humiliating defeat despite the fact that it contested the general elections in alliance with the Congress. That the people of the State had passed a vote of no-confidence against the National Conference and all the Abdullahs could be further seen from the fact that the National Conference could get only 11 per cent of the total popular voted polled in the general election.
The fact of the matter is that the NC has no support-base left in Ladakh and that its influence in Jammu province is confined to only a few pockets. And in the Kashmir Valley, it has also become virtually a pariah. |
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