PDP's sinking ship

By Omkar Dattatray. Dated: 1/23/2019 2:15:35 PM

Given the desertions, groupism, rivalry, dissentions and the resignations of some of its leaders including former ministers, ex- legislators, both of the upper house and the lower house, it can be said with certainty that PDP is a house of cards. It implies that PDP is on the course of fall anytime in future given the party's present murky state of affairs. The party is riddled with factionalism and dissentions.
PDP was founded by its founder Ex-Chief minister of the state Late Mufti Mohammad Sayeed way back in 1998. It had become a formidable and viable political alternative to National Conference but today it is on the brink of disaster and if urgent attention is not paid by the leadership of the party, the PDP may suffer a great deal and it will not remain a viable political alternative in the upcoming elections.
Some allege that the very birth of PDP was the result of the BJP government of 1998 and some allege that the then Home Minister L.K Advani had played back channel role in the creation of PDP to counter the growing strength and presence of National Conference. The NC had also subscribed to this theory. They have said earlier that PDP is the brain child of the BJP. Factionalism, groupism, family raj have marred the prospects of the PDP and it will cost the party so dearly when the elections will be held in the state. Mehbooba Mufti the former Chief Minister and President of PDP faced rebellion after the fall of PDP-BJP coalition government in June, 2018. The rebel legislators of PDP accused the former CM of perpetuating family rule and being cut off from the grass-roots workers. The spate of resignations started with Imran Ansari, a senior leader and former Minister who had called Mehbooba Mufti "incompetent". He had gone to the extent of calling PDP as family rehabilitation party and rightly so given the fact that the affairs of the party are in the hands of the close kith and kin of Mehbooba and they are calling the shots and running the party as a family.
The cracks in PDP had begun to appear after the PDP-BJP coalition government fell as the BJP walked out of the government on 19th of June, 2018. More legislators have expressed resentment and there is no end to this drama of rebellion in the party. Rebelled legislators are of the view that discontent in the party has been brewing from last two years. The main grievances against party leadership seems to be the perpetuation of dynastic rule, cronyism and a CM who remained cut off from the grass root workers and the party's rank and file.
Many senior leaders of the party have either resigned or been ousted from the party. All this conveys that all is not well in the PDP and this fact should attract the attention of the PDP president and the party high command so that the situation does not slip out of the hands of the PDP and the party is able to fight upcoming elections as a formidable force. But it has to be seen how the party leadership will tackle the crisis of grave magnitude before the elections and how it will keep its own house in order to fight the elections when announced. PDP leadership should take immediate steps to save and resurrect the party's image and salvage it from further crisis if it has to remain a force to reckon with in the elections when held.

 

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