| Irrelevant NC leaders call on Governor | | Forget their past, talk about tolerance | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 16: Battered National Conference leaders from Jammu region led by Omar Abdullah's Friday man, Devender Singh, Rana called on the Governor here with a plea that PDP-BJP government is promoting intolerance.
The delegation led by Rana included former ministers Surjeet Singh Slathia, Ajay Kumar Sadhotra, Mushtaq Ahmed Bukhari, Ram Pal, MLA Kamal Arora, former legislators Kashmira Singh and Sheikh Bashir Ahmed besides Jugal Mahajan, Ch Haroon, Gurdeep Singh Sasan, Anil Dhar, Vijay Lochan, Abdul Gani Teli, Israr Khan and Dharamveer Singh Jamwal.
An analyst while talking to Early Times said: "NC leaders in Jammu have turned irrelevant as people have rejected them. By staging dramas they want to hog the headlines and tell people that they are alive and kicking."
He said, "People are not interested in the activities of the NC leaders who slept over the issues concerning the common masses when they were in power. Devender Singh Rana is trying to prove is loyalty and wants to appease his boss Omar, who stripped him of the advisor's post when he reshuffled his cabinet."
"The NC leaders seem to be day dreaming. They believe that by dividing people on communal lines they can mislead the masses. They have no agenda and people don't take them seriously anymore," he added.
The memorandum which NC leaders presented to the Governor states: "We deplore the attempts being made to divide the three distinct regions of the state on the basis of religion. Divisive elements are out with their sinister design to fragment the society into bits and pieces for furthering the political agenda of a particular political thought." "It seems NC leaders from Jammu region who called on the Governor today need to be reminded that when their party was in power they danced to the tunes of leaders from Kashmir. Their more loyal than the king approach led to alienation of people from Ladakh and Jammu regions. It's strange that out of power they are talking about intolerance. Anyway who takes them seriously," said an observer. |
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