Loose cannon leadership pushes J&K Congress into crisis

The Pradesh Congress in Jammu and Kashmir is facing a serious crisis of trust, and much of it is because of its own mistakes.

- DOST KHAN

The party's growing tilt towards one particular community, while ignoring and sidelining Hindus and the Jammu region in the name of vote bank politics, has pushed it into political isolation. This problem has only grown worse under the leadership of its current Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) President, Tariq Hamid Karra, whose controversial actions and soft stance on separatist issues have damaged the party's image. Many people now see him as a "loose cannon"-an unpredictable leader who has weakened the Congress's support across the region.

Once a senior functionary of the People's Democratic Party (PDP), Karra's controversial stances and inflammatory rhetoric have not only alienated large sections of the party's traditional support base but also sparked grave concerns about the ideological drift of the Congress in a sensitive border Union Territory. Many of the party functionaries, especially in the Jammu region, regard him as a political liability, whose actions are causing irreversible damage the Congress, already fighting for its survival.