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| Has Delhi rendered NC politically impotent? | | Guru's Hanging | | ET Report
Jammu, Feb 12: Has New Delhi rendered the National Conference (NC) --- which continues to lead the Jammu & Kashmir Government in alliance with the Congress and share power with the Congress at the Centre whose Government under pressure from the nation implemented the Supreme Court verdict on Parliament terror attack accused Afzal Guru which led to his hanging in Tihar Jail on February 9 -politically impotent? Yes, according to senior NC leader and Member of Parliament Mehboob Beg. Yesterday, the communalist of communalists and separatist of separatists Beg, who has never missed any opportunity to attack the Indian State, Indian Army and the Indian Constitution and who has always considered New Delhi the root cause of all problems, including the "alienation" of his co-religionists in the Valley, condemned New Delhi and accused it of rendering the NC "politically impotent", adding that the Guru's hanging has left the party leaders with "no explanation".
Beg turned so provocative and seditious and so angry with India that he practically lost his balance of mind. He attacked India willfully ignoring the fact that New Delhi had, according to Hindustan Times, discussed the whole issue with NC working president and Jammu & Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah at least 10 days before Guru was brought to justice and that Omar Abdullah took no time in taking all the precautionary measures in order to ensure nothing untoward happens in Kashmir in the wake of Guru's hanging. Talking to a Kashmir-based daily, Beg said: "The Chief Minister is an elected representative of Jammu & Kashmir but Government of India didn't pay any heed towards his apprehensions on the fallout of Guru's hanging". "We had been requesting the GoI to convert Guru's death sentence into life imprisonment. But, the Centre preferred to make the Kashmir its laboratory for the experiment…New Delhi by hanging Guru has left people to suffer. The GoI had told Omar to suffer as the decision to hang Guru can't be changed…I am of the firm belief that Guru has become more powerful after his death. His death will not have only short- term implications but long term as well," Beg also said. He further said: "It is very unfortunate that Guru was hanged despite the expected repercussions of the incident in Kashmir" and that "there are many other convicts facing…similar sentences whose death penalties have been delayed".
It was absurd on his part to say what he shamelessly said conveniently forgetting that what New Delhi did it did as per the judicial verdict and establish rule of law. He should have expressed thanks to the Congress-led UPA Government which took more than seven years to implement the judicial verdict, but Geelani in Beg thought otherwise and poured venom on New Delhi. Why did not he ask party president Farooq Abdullah to resign from the Union Council of Ministers? Why did not he ask Omar Abdullah to resign from the office of Chief Minister? Why he did not resign from the membership of Parliament? If he felt that the hanging of Guru had rendered him and other party leaders "politically impotent", why did not the NC say goodbye to power and why they continued to cling to power? It must remain a matter of shame for him and his ilk that they did respect the view of Farooq Abdullah who only yesterday said that Guru was hanged "according to procedure". "Afzal Guru's mercy petition was put before President. He rejected it.
The matter is over," Farooq Abdullah said. It is time for the party leadership to rein in the likes of Beg and it is also time for New Delhi to take stringent action against those who question the criminal justice system and provokes common people to rise in revolt against India. |
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