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Congress steps up campaign for rotational chief minister
Sunday December 25, 2011 01:36:28 PM,
IANS
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Jammu: Congress, the ruling alliance partner of National Conference in
Jammu and Kashmir, has stepped up its campaign for rotational
chief ministership, seeking its own party leader for the post.
A faction of the party led by Pradesh Congress Committee president
Saifuddin Soz has started holding rallies where Soz himself
maintains silence on the issue, while other leaders make it a
point to rake up the issue.
"It is imperative to have a Congress chief minister as Omar
Abdullah has completed three years in office," senior unit vice
president Mangat Ram Sharma has been saying at rallies here.
At a rally in Sangrama in north Kashmir, former state unit
president of Youth Congress Shoaib Lone went to the extent of
declaring Soz the next chief minister. "He (Soz) is the leader who
can change the destiny of Jammu and Kashmir," he said.
Asked to comment on this, Soz has said: "The party workers have
the right to air their views."
His latest comment on the issue has been: "It's for the party high
command to decide."
Abdullah completes three years in office Jan 5. The Jammu and
Kashmir assembly has a term of six years.
National Conference maintains that Abdullah would be the chief
minister for a full six years.
"This is the agreement of the party with the Congress high command
and there is no change in it," Law and Parliamentary Affairs
Minister Ali Mohammad Sagar told IANS.
But the Congress is firm. A minister close to Soz said there were
two reasons for their demand of change of guard.
"Firstly, Omar has completed his first three years in office."
Secondly, "the Congress has its own political interests to guard
and it must take the frontline role in the government to do so",
he said.
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