We are in constant touch with NC and state Congress leaders: Ambika
SRINAGAR: Amid rising tensions in the coalition camp on the Kargil Autonomous Hill Development Council controversy, Congress high command Tuesday said that it was hopeful of a consensus emerging out of the deliberations between the leaders of both the parties at the state level.
The High Command is also waiting for AICC President Sonia Gandhi to return from United States in a couple of days.
We believe a solution to this issue would come through negotiations and I am sure leaders of both the parties at state level will sit together in the coordination committee again to iron out the differences. AICC General Secretary and In-charge Kashmir affairs Ambika Sonia said on phone from New Delhi.
She said that Congress high command was in constant touch with National Conference and local Congress leadership. Soni is believed to have met Chief Minister Omar Abdullah also who flew to New Delhi to brief Congress leaders.
I dont believe in presuming the things. I am optimistic and am hopeful that the issue would be sorted out amicably, Soni said. She added that the letters sent to AICC President Sonia Gandhi by the local Congress leaders seeking an intervention into the matter have been forwarded to her (Sonia) political advisor Ahmad Patel and vice president Rahul Gandhi also.
Meanwhile National Conference on Tuesday swung into damage control mode and sent two of its senior most leaders Ali Mohammad Sagar and Nasir Aslam Wani to Kargil for an on the spot deliberations with the apparently adamant Councillors who are believed to have staked claim thus defying party president Dr. Farooq Abdullahs directives of not doing so.
Political Advisor to Chief Minster and senior party leader from Kargil Qamar Ali Akhoon who along with Finance Minster Ab. Rahim Rather is believed to have engineered the conflict said, that the majority of the members would be known to everybody on the floor of house.
We are sure things will ease up and everything will be alright. Akhoon said. He, however, evaded a direct reply whether the party has withdrawn the controversial nominations of four members asserting, everything will be known on the floor of the house. Akhoon refused to reveal the exact number of councillors his party has at the moment.
In the meantime sources in the Congress camp said that senior leader and minster Taj Moihiuddin has been asked to sort out the differences with National Conference in the coordination committee. If sources are to be believed, Taj has been given go ahead by high command and the state Congress President Prof. Saif uddin Soz. He (Taj) is also believed to have spoken to the Ambika Soni and Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Tuesday afternoon on the issue.
In the meantime senior NC leader Ali Mohammad Sagar said that all the party councillors have withdrawn their claim and the councillors have been asked to adhere to the party high commands decision.
We have talked to the party Councillors and told them that they should adhere to the Dr. Farooq Abdullahs decision after which they have withdrawn the claim, Sagar said, adding that Dr. Farooq is arriving at Srinagar on Wednesday to assess the situation. Dust will settle down in few days. Sager said. KNS
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