Is Ghulam Nabi Azad on Capt Amarinder’s track?
New Delhi: The kind of discussion that is going on now about Ghulam Nabi Azad, who left the Congress and formed a separate Azad Kashmir party, a year and a half ago, the same discussion was also going on about the former Chief Minister of Punjab Captain Amarinder Singh. He too left the Congress and formed a party named Punjab Lok Congress. Last year i.e. for the February elections of 2022, the BJP had coordinated with his party. But what was the end result? Captain’s party did not get a single seat and the BJP was left with two seats, while it has three MPs in Punjab. After this extremely bad result in the election, Captain stayed out of the country for some time and when he returned, he merged his party with the BJP. Since then, he is hoping to become the governor of some state.
Ghulam Nabi Azad is repeating the same story. Elections are about to be held in Jammu and Kashmir and before that he has formed a separate party. It cannot be said if he too will amalgamate his party with BJP, like his old coleague Captain Amarinder Singh, as by doing so the purpose of forming a separate party would be defeated. Therefore inhouse adjustments are possible. He will be used to cut votes of PDP, National Conference and Congress. It is more likely that like Captain, he will not be able to win any seat and will not be able to give much benefit to BJP. After that it is possible that he will merge the party with BJP and wait to become the Governor. The politics he is doing by forming a separate party is going to run after the Lok Sabha elections next year.
