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Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee President Tariq Hamid Karra on Tuesday downplayed the discontent within the party over the alliance with the National Conference (NC), saying it should not be taken ‘too seriously’.
Karra stressed that no decision has been taken yet regarding the future of the alliance, although party leaders have expressed concerns to the high command.
He said that a section of the public believes that if Congress had fought the elections independently, its electoral performance could have been better. Karra led the party leaders here on the occasion of renaming the Jammu headquarters of Congress as Rajiv Bhawan.
He told reporters here, ‘Rahul ji has not discussed any decision regarding this matter (NC-Congress alliance). If necessary, this matter will be brought before the Executive Committee for discussion, but at present there is no such plan.
Karra said the criticism of the alliance should not be taken ‘too seriously’ and clarified that it was discussed in a conversation between Rahul Gandhi and district presidents during a 10-day training program organized for district presidents of Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Punjab in April.
He said, “When Rahul ji went to the workshop in Himachal Pradesh on April 30, he talked to the district presidents of different states separately and asked them about the difficulties being faced in taking the organization forward.”
These comments come amid reports of growing differences between Congress and National Conference in this Union Territory.
He said, ‘It has been a matter of discussion for a long time whether we suffered loss or not. But the public perception is that if Congress had contested the elections alone, perhaps the results would have been better. This is the public perception.
Earlier, Jammu District Rural Congress President Neeraj Kundan had claimed that around 19 district presidents of Jammu and Kashmir had urged the party high command to reconsider the alliance with the National Conference during a recent meeting held in Kangra, Himachal Pradesh.