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| Omar foresees mid-term polls | | PDP-BJP Govt swearing in today | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Apr 3 : With the PDP-BJP coalition likely to take oath tomorrow (Monday) , National Conference Working President Omar Abdullah believes that this government won't last long and said he has told party workers to remain active as elections can be just round the corner.
"With the current PDP-BJP government led by the untested Mehbooba anything is possible. I for one will not sit and relax thinking that elections are far away. I am working and I have told my colleagues to remain active keeping in mind that elections can be just round the corner," Omar told a national magazine.
The NC Working President said Mehbooba Mufti had on record said that she neither has the experience nor the stature of her father to sell this unpopular alliance without some categorical commitment from the Centre and that too, from no lesser person than the Prime Minister. "She held her ground for two months and a few days. Obviously something dramatically changed in the last week or ten days that she suddenly became willing for talks with Amit Shah and other senior leaders in the BJP. It does not bode well for the State."
Omar, the former Chief Minister of the State also ruled out of forging alliance with any party in the near future. "At this point in time, we are focused on growing the National Conference like the Congress and others and we will continue to do that. The possibility of a pre-poll alliance is not even in the glimmer of our horizon," he said.
Taking on Mehbooba Mufti, Omar said she made the cardinal mistake of equating the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Amit Shah with Dr Manmohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi because those are the people she was used to dealing with in her previous avatar when they were in alliance with the Congress. "The biggest mistake the PDP is going to make is to think that they are dealing with people similar to Dr Manmohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi. They are not," he claimed.
"Mufti Mohammad Sayeed turned down the offers of the National Conference and the Congress saying that there was no point tying up with these parties and that he needed the support of the Government of India for flood relief and so on, but the flood relief never came and so much else that was promised never came either."
He said Mehbooba has to change her ways. "I think this was her first lesson. I don't envy her. She finds herself in the most difficult position in one of the most difficult states where she doesn't know who she can trust and rely upon." He said Mehbooba is completely "untried and untested". "She has been a legislator but there is a huge difference between being a legislator and an administrator. She has absolutely no administrative experience whatsoever. At least when I came into the post I had three years of experience as a minister in the Government of India. It does make a difference. She has none whatsoever. Therefore, the learning curve for her is going to be extremely steep, and Jammu and Kashmir is a very unforgiving place for mistakes, for those learning on the job. |
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