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Neha
JAMMU, June 8: The NC has not learned any lesson from its defeat in the just-concluded Lok Sabha election. On the contrary, its leadership has turned extremely irrational and made certain statements which are highly provocative and indicate the extent to which it has started going in its desperate bid to recapture the lost Kashmir constituency, which used to be its pocket-borough till 2002. It has turned so communal believing that such a stance would help it turn the tables on the victorious PDP leadership that it has started taking on patron of PDP Mufti Mohammad Sayeed. It has described the Mufti as the other face of the late Ghulam Mohammad Sadiq during whose regimes the offices of Wazir-e-azam and Sadar-e-Riyasat were abolished and the offices of Governor and Chief Minister introduced in an attempt to bring the state at par with other states of the country. The NC leadership should have welcomed the introduction of the offices of the Governor and Chief Minister, but it did exactly the opposite to misguide and instigate the gullible Kashmiri Muslims.
The NC leadership has made several statements after the defeat of the party candidates and these are in public domain. Yesterday, president of the NC and former Chief Minister and Union Minister farooq Abdullah, who was also rejected outright by the people of Kashmir, took on Mufti Mohammad Sayeed for wrong reasons. He accused him of flirting with those who are against Article 370 and who want the state's complete integration into India. "He (Mufti) was prepared to play a collaborator's role in the abrogation of Article 370 along the lines of G. M. Sadiq, who had helped in abolishing the positions of the Prime Minister and Sadar-e-Riyasat of Jammu & Kashmir and became the State's first Chief Minister in 1965," Farooq Abdullah said, and added that "a surreptitious political battle has been launched against Article 370 and the State of Jammu & Kashmir by RSS and BJP". "Damage done by G. M. Sadiq to Article 370 was the most grievous assault on the identity and autonomy of Jammu & Kashmir and today the same Mufti Mohammad Sayeed who was a lieutenant of Sadiq when Sadiq eroded
Article 370, is ready to fulfill what was left of their mission then", Farooq Abdullah also said.
In other words, he sought to create an impression in Kashmir that Mufti Mohammad Sayeed is hand-in-glove with the RSS and the BJP. "What is most worrying is not the fact that the State has powerful enemies (read the nationalist RSS and democratic and secular BJP). What is tragic is the fact that there are internal collaborators and foes within our State (read Mufti Sayeed and his daughter, party president and MP Lok Sabha Mehbooba Mufti) who are ready to do the bidding of those who have pledged to abrogate Article 370 in their election manifesto," Farooq Abdulllah was quoted as saying while interacting with party workers at the party headquarters in Srinagar. What was the fault of pro-self-rule Mufti Sayeed and other PDP leaders? Their only fault was that they, unlike the Abdullahs, didn't make Narendra Modi and BJP poll issues. There was nothing wrong in that. In fact, the PDP leadership displayed political maturity by adopting a soft attitude towards the BJP and its Prime Ministerial candidate.
By attacking G M Sadiq, Farooq Abdullah only exposed himself and established that his whole approach towards Kashmir is communal. How else should one describe what he said about Sadiq and Mufti? The people of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh have, it needs to be underlined, always hailed Sadiq for the steps that were taken during his period to integrate the state with the rest of the country, notwithstanding the fact that it was also during his period that some Jamat-e-Islami leaders made it to the state legislature. Similarly, the people of the state have all along praised Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad during whose period (1953-1964), many steps were taken to bridge the gulf between the state and New Delhi. Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad took over as the head of the government after Sheikh Abdullah was dethroned and arrested on the charge of sedition on August 9, 1953. If Farooq Abdullah feels that his senseless attacks on Mufti and Sadiq and insistence on autonomy would help him revive the party, then obviously he is living in a fool's paradise.
If he really wishes to revive the fallen-from-the-grace NC, he has no other option but to take recourse to positive politics that is based on democratic and economic issues. Even otherwise, he has no other option but to do so considering the fact that the people of Jammu and Ladakh hate and despise his party's ideology, as also the fact that there are only a handful of people in Kashmir who still support the NC.
That the NC got only less than 10 per cent of the total votes polled in the just-held Lok Sabha election is a proof that an overwhelming majority of population in Kashmir has developed hatred and contempt for the Abdullahs' outfit.
The NC has outlived its utility was the verdict of the people of Kashmir. |
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