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| 1975 Accord: Nazir proposes, Beg disposes | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Dec 9: Senior NC leader and Member Parliament Dr Mehboob Beg has taken another very senior party leader and general secretary Sheikh Nazir head on and rubbished his claim that Sheikh Abdullah did not sign the 1975 Accord that had led to the untimely demise of the then Congress government in Jammu & Kashmir and installation of the father and founder NC and a votary of plebiscite Sheikh Abdullah as the state Chief Minister after a long gap of 22 years.
Nazir had on Friday last accused New Delhi of following the policy of "might is right in Kashmir" and cunningly bemoaned saying that the "Kashmiris continue to suffer for no fault of theirs". "Even after suffering for more than six decades, we still don't know what our fault is? They (New Delhi) should tell us why we have been left to suffer. The Government of India is following might-is-right policy on Kashmir", he had said. He had also said "Sheikh Sahib was not directly involved in the 1975 exercise. It was Mirza Mohammad Afzal Beg and G Parthasarthy who were talking to each other. Sheikh Sahib was always concerned over what had happened with him in 1953. We had not lost much till 1953 but after his arrest erosion of autonomy started. Before levelling allegations against Sheikh, people should read history and check the facts. The 1975 Accord doesn't have the signature of Sheikh Sahib, neither was it tabled in the State legislature". Endorsing the views of Nazir, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's uncle and party additional general secretary Mustafa Kamaal said the same day that "he (Nazir) speaks truth, as he knows the reason and meaning of even punctuation marks of all accords". Kamaal has been taking this line for years now.
No one had expected that Mehboob Beg would contradict Nazir and rubbish his claim, but he did muster courage yesterday and very effectively countered the ailing Nazir. In fact, he put things in right perspective and called the Sheikh Nazir's bluff. Countering Nazir, he said that the "1975 Accord happened between Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah and Indira Gandhi". To make his point more clear, he further said: "It will be wrong to say that the Accord happened between Mirza Afzal Beg and G Parthasarthy…Mirza Afzal could not go to meet Parthasarthy himself, Sheikh and Indira were the part of it…I don't know in what context Sheikh Nazir said so, but the fact remains that Mirza Afzal Beg was merely a representative of Sheikh when the Accord was signed". Significantly, Beg is son of Mirza Afzal Beg, who was thrown out of the party by Sheikh Abdullah in the late 1970s. Beg in a way lambasted both the general secretaries of the party. It appears all is not well with the NC.
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