Consensus eludes new J&K PCC

JAMMU, July 7: While reconstitution of the Pradesh Congress Committee in Jammu and Kashmir is on the cards, consensus eludes the senior par...

JAMMU, July 7: While reconstitution of the Pradesh Congress Committee in Jammu and Kashmir is on the cards, consensus eludes the senior party leaders over the issue of leadership in the sensitive border state.

Significantly, the Congress here is divided between two factions, even when both call for the party playing the role of an “effective and constructive opposition” in the State.

While one faction is headed by the former Union minister and All India Congress Committee (AICC) general secretary, Ghulam Nabi Azad, the other is led by former Union minister, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, and former State Congress president, Ghulam Rasool Kar.

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Well placed sources within the Congress party here told The Indian Express that the Azad faction was insisting on the induction of only those people into the Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC), who had been with the party for the last 23 years in the State. However, the faction headed by Mufti-Kar combine wanted the reconstituted PCC to comprise of all those having contested the last Assembly polls as Congress nominees in the State.

According to Sayeed, the reconstitution of the Pradesh Congress Committee in the State is expected to take place within the next week. However, Azad said that it will be done by the end of this month to enable the State to have its representation in the AICC session to be held at Calcutta on August 8, 9 and 10.

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