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| Why did BJP leaders skip funeral of Altaf 'Laptop'? | | |
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Oct 12: The BJP leadership was conspicuous by its absence at the funeral of sub-inspector Altaf Dar alias Laptop who was killed by militants in north Kashmir last week, indicating that the party has strained relation with the J&K police.
At Dar's funeral held at the Police Control Room here, when Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed and his predecessor Omar Abdullah laid wreaths at the slain cop's coffin, the absence of the BJP Ministers was not meaningless, which many in the corridors of power, including the Home Ministry, have taken a serious note of.
From retired police officials to those in service, all are trying to discover the reasons for the "unnatural behavior" of the BJP's leadership towards the khaki ranks.
If senior police officials are to be believed, for the last few months the BJP Ministers have been confronting the State police and looking down upon the cops.
For example, Health Minister Chowdhary Lal Singh recently on the floor of the House held the police responsible for the growing drug abuse in the State, leaving the top police brass, including the DGP who was present in the Assembly, red-faced.
On September 14, PHE Minister Sukhnandan Kumar allegedly misbehaved with SP Hazratbal in full public gaze during the 'Big Marathon' held at Kashmir University campus.
While anti-Government protests were going on in the area, Sukhnandan squarely blamed it on police for having failed to provide "incident free" security arrangements when over 20,000 people were present in the university for participation in the marathon. "Amid so big crowds how could police keep the event incident free in a conflict zone like Kashmir?" Though many asked this question, and supported police for having exercised maximum restraint while dealing with the mobs or else many participant schoolchildren could have got trampled, Sukhnandan took the "police conspiracy" to his heart.
Official sources said the Minister subsequently summoned the entire police top brass to his Civil Secretariat office to express his dismay. Sukhnandan is understood to have told the police that it was a total failure in the State and that police was trying to sabotage functions were BJP Ministers are chief guest, as was the case at the 'Big Marathon'. The senior police officials had a tough time as they were almost ridiculed by the BJP Minister who was not willing to listen to them.
Prior to this, Sukhnandan sought suspension of SHO Magam when some people while staging dharna on the main road had intercepted his motorcade to make him listen to their civic woes. Sukhnandan took serious note of the issue and asked the Government top brass to get the SHO transferred for 'dereliction of duty'.
A senior police official said Sukhnandan was upset with the police as he was not given the motorcade of his choice. "He is also believed to be upset with the Home Ministry for not having made some transfers in police as per his choice," said the police official pleading anonymity.
Similar "grievances", as per police, hold true for Health Minister Chowdhary Lal Singh and others from the saffron party.
But skipping the funeral of SI Dar was just not expected from the national party. This, as per the observers, was at least not expected from Deputy Chief Minister Dr Nirmal Singh.
Though it has been a week since Dar was killed, even the retired police officials are unable to forget that BJP Ministers were missing at the funeral of their hero. Former DGP Ashok Bhan in an article to pay tributes to Dar published in a Srinagar daily today has highlighted the absence of BJP Ministers at the wreath-laying ceremony.
Ashok Bhan said, "It was an excellent gesture on the part of Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed and former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah to join the DGP and other top police brass in paying floral tributes on his mortal remains…It was a befitting tribute to one of our finest ambassadors of anti-India activities." |
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