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| Yechury defends Guru's hanging, Tarigami opposes it | | Divided Left | | Rustam
Jammu, Feb 11: The National Conference (NC), which is heading the J&K Government, is not the only political party whose senior leaders are expressing diametrically opposite views on the hanging of Parliament terror attack convict Mohammad Afzal Guru. (While NC vice-president and J&K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has been admitting that he was taken into confidence by the Union Government before executing Guru and strengthening the security grid to control the emerging situation in the Kashmir valley, his uncle and NC additional general secretary Mustafa Kamaal has been attacking India, the Congress, Army, majority community and virtually inciting the Muslims of Kashmir to rise in revolt against India.) Top leaders of the Communist Party of India - Marxist (CPI-M), like the NC, are also airing contradictory views on the hanging of Guru.
CPI --M Polit Bureau member and Member of Rajya Sabha Sitaram Yechury, for example, has defended the execution of Guru saying the law of the land has taken its course as far as attack on the Indian Parliament is concerned. "I think the law of the land with all its provisions has finally been completed as far as the Afzal Guru case and the attack on the Indian Parliament is concerned. The issue which had been lingering (on) for the past 11 years has finally completed its due course". What he said just cannot be described as his negative attitude towards the belated and much delayed decision of the Union Government to implement the verdict of the Supreme Court of India. Indeed, his statement clearly indicates his endorsement of the Government decision.
In contrast, State CPI-M leader and member of J&K Legislative Assembly Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami, an ethnic Kashmiri, has, like all the Kashmiri leaders, who have given their reactions to the hanging of Guru so far, opposed the decision. "It has been our consistent demand to commute death sentence awarded by Supreme Court to the Parliament attack convict Mohd Afzal Guru into life imprisonment. We think the execution of Afzal Guru, carried out on (February 9) morning, is fraught with narrow view point and sensitivities of Jammu and Kashmir have not been taken into consideration,'' Tarigami added.
What exactly Tarigami of Kulgam (Kashmir) meant by the statement that "it has been our consistent demand to "commute death sentence…into life imprisonment? Did he mean the CPI-M leadership as a whole? He could not mean that, as Sitaram, a national leader and one of the prominent think-tanks and ideologues of the CPI-M, made his party's stand clear by commending the judicial process. He definitely meant that constituency in Kashmir and that leadership in the Valley or whatever one may terms it, which all along opposed the judicial verdict on Guru saying his execution would be fraught with dangerous consequences. And whose "sensitivities Tarigami talked about while opposing the hanging of Guru? Did he talk about the sensitivities of the entire population of the State? He just could not do that, as the sensitivities of the people of Jammu and Ladakh, the State's two of the three regions, barring a few communalists in a couple of towns in the erstwhile Doda district of Jammu province, were not outraged by the hanging of Guru. He definitely meant a section of Kashmiri society or supporters of Kashmiri separatists and parties like the NC. There should be no doubt it.
However, it is not surprising that he took a line different from that of Sitaram Yechury. For, he belongs to a different school of thought. Will the likes of Yechury take cognizance of what Tarigami said to please the separatist and communal constituency in Kashmir? |
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