It is the worst day for the National Conference and Peoples Democratic Party in Jammu and Kashmir, BJP leaders said on Friday as senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad has resigned from the Grand Old Party. Rahul Gandhi and his close circle to the party’s electoral collapse.
As Congress leaders copy-pasted the video where PM Narendra Modi tears into his eyes during Azad’s farewell speech, to pay the latter’s resignation the debt of that gesture, BJP leaders have dubbed it ‘NC and PDP’s. Liete bahot bada din hai’ (Bad day) said. for NC and PDP).
A top BJP leader associated with Jammu and Kashmir said, “Congress is almost extinct, it is the worst day for NC and PDP in the state.
The day Azad resigned, the BJP was busy working out a strategy to strengthen its organization and fill the void created by Azad’s exit from the Congress.
The core group of the party’s Jammu and Kashmir unit met at the residence of Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday evening to chalk out a strategy on areas where the party can strengthen itself. The meeting lasted for four hours.
Bad news for NC and PDP?
A senior BJP leader said that the Congress is eating its vote bank in the Jammu region. “Wherever the Congress gets a place, BJP will benefit from the weakening of the Congress,” he said. The contest will be between Azad’s new party and NCP and PDP and all will target their respective vote bases. We will have a chance to woo Congress voters who will never vote for PDP or other regional party. Azad could emerge as an alternative to Farooq Abdullah’s party as both have a soft nationalist image. Also, Abdullah is facing ED case and there is a rumor in UT that he has some setting with us in Delhi and he may be harmed. There is another factor in J&K as we have seen with Abdullah, the party considered closer to the Center or the PM gets an advantage in some areas,” said a senior BJP leader.
Another advantage that the BJP is seeing is that the election will not be one-sided. Another leader said, “There will be many players in the election and this will ensure that the elections will not be entirely in favor of one party.”
Azad’s exit from the Congress and the revelation that he would launch his own political outfit has given hope to the BJP.
Another senior state leader explained why Azad’s departure was good news for the saffron party. Azad is the son-in-law of Poonch Rajouri sector and hails from Doda district and Bhaderwah. They have their own vote bank in the union territory. With them exiting the Congress along with the top party leaders in the region, the old old party is almost gone. ,
In the 2014 elections, when Jammu and Kashmir was a state, the Congress won 12 seats, while the BJP won 25.
Azad on Friday sent a strongly worded five-page letter to Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi announcing her resignation from all posts.
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