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| If dog bites man in Kashmir it is world news Is Omar upset over media reports exposing his laxity in handling Kishtwar trouble? | | | ET Report
Jammu, Aug 16: Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah, seems to be not only angry but enraged over the nation-wide attention communal riots in Kishtwar received in recent days. He is angry over the round the clock debates, news coverage on the electronic channels and over front-page coverage of the breezy communal violence in Kishtwar and some adjoining areas, in which three civilians were killed, in the print media. Possibly Omar Abdullah does not know the importance of the state he rules. He seems to be unaware of the importance of Kashmir in the global political scenario. By now he should have learnt that Kashmir like Helen of Troy has fuelled four wars between India and Pakistan. By now Omar should have realized the importance of Jammu and Kashmir which is being treated by Pakistan as its life line. By India the state is being treated a symbol of secular polity.
After the Mughals and after the partition the vale of Kashmir is not simply a paradise on the earth. It is much more than a vale of scenic beauty. It has become a land of discord between India and Pakistan. It has become, to quote Shekh Abdullah, grandfather of Omar Abdullah, a playfield for international conspiracies. As such even the 23 year long incidents of militancy related incidents continue to receive importance in coverage on the electronic and print media. This has been the main reason for Omar Abdullah to feel enraged.
And the Independence day celebrations allowed the Chief Minister a wide scope to air his anger. Upset over the way different political parties have dealt with the riot-hit Kishtwar Omar Abdullah has said on that the Kashmiris were being forced to feel themselves separate from the Indian mainstream. In an unusually harsh Independence Day ceremonial address at Bakhshi Stadium, Omar Abdullah expressed his dismay over the treatment meted out to his State by the Indian mainstream political parties. While as the parties like BJP are spearheading an agitation with various accusations, insinuations and demands, political outfits like Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party [BSP] have demanded dismissal of the Omar Abdullah-led coalition Government over the communal riots in Kishtwar town. "I was often being asked why the Kashmiris had separatist inclinations. A many times, I asked myself but didn't get an answer. After [the riots in] Kishtwar, I have now got an answer. We are different [from them] as they treat us differently", Abdullah has said. The complaining Chief Minister referred to a number of communal and other riots in different Indian States in the last several years --- including Gujarat, Bihar, UP, West Bengal --- and asked: "Which of those States had forced them to rush the national level leaders next day?" He asserted that none of those riots had led to a national level debate in the Parliament. Omar was unusually categorical in his impression that the Kashmiris were feeling themselves "separate" as they were being treated "separately and differently"
Omar Abdullah feels that Kashmiris feel they are separate. Nothing special about it. Nothing amazing or surprising about it. If people in Jammu and Kashmir, particularly in the valley, feel they are separate from the national mainstream political flow they are not wrong because Omar is the last political leader to forget that the state of Jammu and Kashmir enjoys a special status, its a separate constitution and flag. Under Article 370 of the Constitution of India the state of Jammu and Kashmir enjoys a special status within the union of India. And right from the day Omar joined politics and later sworn in as the youngest Chief Minister of the state he has been campaigning against any move to revoke special status.
This constitutional provision and the state subject law which does not allow non-state subjects to purchase any immovable property in Jammu and Kashmir and debar them from seeking jobs in the state Government departments and admission in the professional colleges together make people in Kashmir to feel they are special and separate from the rest of the people in India. Consequently, communal clashes in Kishtwar had to hog limelight in the print and electronic media. It had to be debated in the Parliament because people like Mahatma Gandhi had seen the ray of hope only in Jammu and Kashmir state where people displayed communal amity and brotherhood at a time when the entire subcontinent had been rocked and rattled by communal clashes in which several thousand people were killed at the time of the partition of India. Isn't then people of Kashmir and the valley something special, something separate? Instead of feeling upset Omar should feel proud of being head of the Government in a state that is special and separate. Yes, he is upset because the Government's laxity in dealing with the trouble has been exposed. |
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