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| Even Anantnag humiliating defeat didn't change NC | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, June 30: NC working president and Leader of Opposition in the J&K Legislative Assembly, Omar Abdullah, tried his level best during the election campaign in the by-election to snatch the high profile Anantnag Assembly seat from the PDP. The election was held on June 22. He levelled serious charges against CM Mehbooba Mufti and her government that it had deviated from her path to please Nagpur (RSS) and that she no longer represented the Kashmiri cause (read separatist cause). He also charged her and her government with not delivering on any of the fronts and even accused her of not doing anything to implement the PDP-BJP agenda of alliance.
The point is that Omar Abdullah moved heaven and earth to upset the Mehbooba Mufti's applecart, but all his machinations and his rabble rousing couldn't mar the electoral prospects of Mehbooba Mufti. She won the election hands down and established that the PDP continued to be a force to reckon with in Anantnag.
Mehbooba won in the Anantnag Assembly by-election by 12,085 votes, proving that her popularity remains unaffected by her PDP's decision to ally with the BJP. Of the 28,500 votes cast, she polled 17,701. Hilal Shah of the Congress polled 5,616 votes and IftikharMisger of the National Conference got only 2,811 votes.
That the Congress could get more votes as compared with the NC only proved that Farooq Abdullah and Omar Abdullah have lost their sheen and appeal and that their support base has considerably shrunk and that too in Kashmir Valley, once considered its stronghold. The NC's support base has not increased despite the fact that the NC is the main opposition in the assembly, which suggests that the people Kashmir have not appreciated his role and the role his NC played after March 1, 2015, when the PDP and the BJP joined hands to form coalition government in the state.
There are reasons for the declining popularity of the NC and the most important reason is that the NC leadership continues to cling to the same old line that had resulted in its defeat both in the 2002, 2009 and 2014 assembly elections. Interestingly, his father and party president Farooq Abdullah himself had suffered a massive defeat in the 2014 general election and Omar Abdullah could just make to the assembly by a slender margin of about 100 votes. He lost the elections in the other assembly constituency, while his uncle Mustafa Kamal lost his security deposit in the same election.
There is still time for the NC leadership to reform itself taking into consideration the fact that its politics has no taker in the state and that the people want the political class to work and deliver instead of taking recourse to emotive and divisive issues. |
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