<p>Congress will emerge as the single largest party after the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly polls and AICC chief Sonia Gandhi will take a call on any pre-poll alliance, All India Congress Committee general secretary Ambika Soni said here on Tuesday.<br /><br /></p>.<p>“We are going to the elections with the aim to be not only the single largest party in the state but to give a Congress government,” Soni told reporters here after assessing reasons for the party’s defeat in parliamentary polls.<br /><br />She is on a two-day visit to the state.<br /><br />After chairing a crucial meet of J&K Congress here, presided over by the party’s J&K chief Saif-ud-Din Soz with party stalwart Ghulam Nabi Azad in the chair, Soni said she will submit a detailed report about the feedback she got from the state to Sonia Gandhi. <br /><br />“I along with Azad sahib and Soz sahib will put forward the (assessment) report before the Congress president, who will take a final decision on whether the party should contest elections separately or forge an alliance with any party,” she said.<br /><br />On whether the Congress-National Conference coalition government will last its full term, she said, “We always hope that an elected government completes its full term because the mandate of the people is for a fixed term. Congress has always held that the government that is elected to office should fulfill the manifesto that they gave for getting elected. This is our general commitment.”<br /><br />Earlier, sources told Deccan Herald that the J&K Congress failed to evolve a consensus on issues like who would lead the party in the Assembly elections, and whether there should be a pre-poll alliance, forcing Soni to hold one-to-one meetings with party members to get their views.<br /><br />The state Congress leaders asserted that the party must work under a “single leadership” to ensure a “comeback” in the Assembly polls.<br /><br />“While some party men asserted that Congress will flourish only under the leadership of Soz, others put their weight behind Azad, terming him a leader of the masses,” sources said.<br /><br />Soni was deputed to Kashmir by Sonia Gandhi to gauge the mood and to check the party’s strength ahead of crucial Assembly polls.</p>
<p>Congress will emerge as the single largest party after the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly polls and AICC chief Sonia Gandhi will take a call on any pre-poll alliance, All India Congress Committee general secretary Ambika Soni said here on Tuesday.<br /><br /></p>.<p>“We are going to the elections with the aim to be not only the single largest party in the state but to give a Congress government,” Soni told reporters here after assessing reasons for the party’s defeat in parliamentary polls.<br /><br />She is on a two-day visit to the state.<br /><br />After chairing a crucial meet of J&K Congress here, presided over by the party’s J&K chief Saif-ud-Din Soz with party stalwart Ghulam Nabi Azad in the chair, Soni said she will submit a detailed report about the feedback she got from the state to Sonia Gandhi. <br /><br />“I along with Azad sahib and Soz sahib will put forward the (assessment) report before the Congress president, who will take a final decision on whether the party should contest elections separately or forge an alliance with any party,” she said.<br /><br />On whether the Congress-National Conference coalition government will last its full term, she said, “We always hope that an elected government completes its full term because the mandate of the people is for a fixed term. Congress has always held that the government that is elected to office should fulfill the manifesto that they gave for getting elected. This is our general commitment.”<br /><br />Earlier, sources told Deccan Herald that the J&K Congress failed to evolve a consensus on issues like who would lead the party in the Assembly elections, and whether there should be a pre-poll alliance, forcing Soni to hold one-to-one meetings with party members to get their views.<br /><br />The state Congress leaders asserted that the party must work under a “single leadership” to ensure a “comeback” in the Assembly polls.<br /><br />“While some party men asserted that Congress will flourish only under the leadership of Soz, others put their weight behind Azad, terming him a leader of the masses,” sources said.<br /><br />Soni was deputed to Kashmir by Sonia Gandhi to gauge the mood and to check the party’s strength ahead of crucial Assembly polls.</p>
