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| Mr Abdullah, J&K is destined to disintegrate | | Taking Jammu for a ride | |
Early Times Report
jammu, July 28: NC working president and former Jammu & Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah under whose weak leadership the popularity graph of the NC took a big hit on Monday declared that his party would defeat those who are overtly or covertly working for the division of the state under one pretext or another. "Nobody can dare divide this state till National Conference exists and we will fight all such covert designs with full might and conviction," Omar said at the launch of party's membership drive in Srinagar, and added that his party has taken the route of struggle, sacrifice and ideology to become the custodian of the State's interests and rights.
Omar Abdullah has been handling the affairs of the NC since 2002 and ever since then, the NC is declining. In 2002, its tally in the Assembly elections came down to 28, as against its tally of 57 in 1996. In 2008, the party also won 28 seats and its performance established that Omar Abdullah had failed to play the role of a responsible and effective opposition. And in 2014, the NC could win only 18 seats, thus establishing that Omar Abdullah was just incompetent to lead his party aright or face effectively and counter the opposition's onslaught and propaganda. He and his NC-Congress coalition government had become so unpopular that even party president Faroqq Abdullah, then a Union Minister, couldn't make it to the Lok Sabha. He suffered a massive and humiliating defeat at the hands of the PDP. Similar was the fate of his uncle Mustafa Kamal in the assembly elections. His and the NC's unpopularity could be measured from the fact that Mustafa Kamal lost his security deposit; he was not even runners up. Not only this, Omar Abdullah, who for the first time contested election from two safe constituencies in the Valley, lost miserably in one and could win from another by a very slender margin.
The fact is that the NC has lost its ground even in the Kashmir Valley, once considered its stronghold. In Jammu region, it has little presence. Similarly, in Ladakh, the NC has little or no say. And still Omar Abdullah claims that the NC represents the state and its aspirations and asserts that it would defeat those seeking division of the state. No one takes him seriously, especially in Jammu region and Ladakh, where people hate, despise and abhor its autonomy line. Things would become more difficult for him and his father in Jammu and Ladakh in the coming days. The reason is that it would give a radical orientation to politics of competitive communalism and separatism to prove that it is more radical than the PDP. And the more its emphasis on Kashmiri Muslim sub-nationalism the more unpopular it would become in Jammu region and Ladakh. In fact, the politics of competitive communalism and separatism in Kashmir Valley being indulged by the NC and similar other Kashmir-based outfits would help the votaries of the state's division achieve their objective.
Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh is not a homogeneous state. It is highly heterogeneous. There is no unity between Kashmir and Jammu and even Chief Minister Mufti Sayeed acknowledged this fact on July 17 in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Gen Zorawar Singh Auditorium, Jammu University. Likewise, there is no unity between Ladakh and Kashmir. The truth is that all the three regions are pulling in different directions, with Jammu and Ladakh standing for statehood and union territory status, respectively, and working day and night for their complete merger with India and the divided Kashmiri leadership standing for autonomy, self-rule, azadi, merger with Pakistan and India-Pakistan joint control.
Omar Abdullah would well to appreciate these realities. It would be better if he concentrates only on Kashmir where the PDP has snatched its political space. It would be a mere wastage of time if he visits Jammu and Ladakh for expanding the support-base of the decline NC. Even otherwise, he has no right to talk for and on behalf of Jammu and Ladakh, where the people are out and out nationalist. He must remember that Jammu & Kashmir is destined to disintegrate sooner than later because the wedlock between them is unnatural. |
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