| Jammu, Mar 27: National Conference on being consistently exposed for its wrong doings is deliberately trying to deflect public attention from its governance failure. The NC, especially Omar Abdullah, after having failed to either revoke AFSPA or bring back power projects, is now accusing the Mufti Sayeed led BJP-PDP government of having failed on these accounts. The issue to bring power projects operated by the NHPC to the state is contentious. The Centre has invested huge money and man power in these projects. It's not only in the J&K that NHPC is operating such power projects but in other states also. It's for this reason that NHPC advocates that if the demand to hand over the projects to J&K is conceded, it will have a cascading effect. The fact is that PDP even in its earlier government had stated about it. But, the fact is that former Congress Minister Taj Mohiuddin, who was perceived to be more close to Omar Abdullah than his own party, was the first to project NHPC as a villain of the State and imposed water usage tax on it. Though, it was challenged , the real motive for it was presumably different from what was stated in the public. The then CM Omar Abdullah didn't reign in his cabinet minister and neither did the former CM Farooq Abdullah consulted the cabinet before handing over the projects to the NHPC. The debate has been generated to point that rationality of having these projects with the State government has been lost in the din. "But, the fact is that statistics reeled out by the government daily in the Assembly, especially in the education, which involves many NC ministers and MLAs, has exposed the real face of the NC and the Omar Abdullah. It's for this reason that he decided to make 'drama' over a non-issue, knowing fully well that any government with just few months in the office can't bring back the projects, which previous government could not in full six-years," said a senior BJP leader. |
