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Rustam
JAMMU, June 14: The general view in the state is that Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and NC working president has failed his party. But Tanvir Sadiq, Omar Abdullah's political secretary and former spokesperson of NC, doesn't endorse this view. When asked on Thursday "how do you (Tanvir Sadiq) compare the NC's legacy with what it is today"? Sadiq responded like this: "We won't be doing justice if we compare pre-1989 to what NC was post-1989 and what it is now. One should not forget that the entire dynamics of J&K politics changed after 1989. The fear factor, way it rose or may be it went down. A young man picked up a gun and didn't have a direction. He didn't know what to do but don't forget that there were agencies across the border, here also, who were trying to hoodwink them and in the process hundreds and thousands of people were dead. Now the families of those people dead thought all the mainstream political parties are our enemies. We are emotional people. If I lose a son or a brother in my family, I will always feel it is because of security personnel. So, I will always look at the security personnel with suspicion. I would not look at him as somebody who will help me and this thing carried on for 20 years. Everyone is talking about NC and how it went down and nobody is talking about the separatist politics. They didn't have a direction. They didn't know what to do. They just gave guns. Some of the people who took up guns are having a good lifestyle today". And when suggested that "Omar Abdullah is trying to run away from his own constituency Ganderbal and he may be contesting somewhere else",
Tanvir Sadiq put a counter question: "Who decides that he has to contest from there?" and said: "Why should it be that Omar Abdullah has to contest from Ganderbal".
His answer shows that he was neither here nor there and that he just beat about the bush. He didn't say that the NC under the leadership of Farooq Abdullah had won two-third majority in the 1996 Assembly elections. By not recalling the great victory of Farooq Abdullah, Tanvir Sadiq didn't do justice to the party president. Nor did Tanvir Sadiq say that it was under the leadership of Omar Abdullah that the NC's tally was reduced to just 28 in 2002, a loss 29 seats and a loss that threw the NC out of power. Besides, Tanvir Sadiq also thought it politically wise not to comment on the performance of the NC under Omar Abdullah in the 2008 Assembly elections. In 2008, the NC had again won 28 seats. One could say that the NC lost miserably in 2002 because of anti-incumbency, but no such argument could be advanced as far as the defeat of the NC in 2008 was concerned. The NC remained in opposition between 2002 and 2008, but it failed to play the role of an effective and responsible opposition. That's the reason the NC failed to click. He should have explained the causes responsible for the very poor performance of the NC in the Lok Sabha elections, but he thought otherwise to keep his master in good humour. He simply attributed the defeat of the party to the hanging of Afzal Guru and 2010. The fact of the matter is that Tanvir Sadiq tried his best to defend Omar Abdullah. It would have better had he referred to that resolution of the Cabinet Committee on Security that had censured Omar Abdullah and said the "trust-deficit and governance-deficit" culminated in what happened in 2010. Indeed, Saidq defended the indefensible and this is the way the world ends not with bang but with a whimper. |
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