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| Kishtwar assault The Indian Left and National Conference | | | Neha
Jammu, Aug 17: The attitude of the Indian Left, especially the CPI-M, towards the pro-autonomy National Conference, has undergone a radical change. It appears surprising but it is a fact. That the attitude of the CPI-M vis-à-vis the National Conference has changed could be seen from what its MP Sitaram Yechury said in the Rajya Sabha on August 12 while reflecting on the August 9 incident in Kishtwar, which had caused fear psychosis in the minority community, as it was not really protected by the civil and police administration in the manner they should have considering the nature of the incident and prevailing environment vitiated by anti-national elements.
Sitaram Yechury, like other opposition leaders such as Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley and BSP national president Mayawati, lambasted Omar Abdullah's Government and expressed no confidence in it. He charged the state Government with not taking timely action and accused it of allowing the situation to deteriorate in Kishtwar. "I rise with deep sense of anger over the situation in Kishtwar. The situation was allowed to deteriorate. Why timely action was not taken? The situation continues to be tensed…The judicial probe was not adequate and the Centre should intervene into the issue. It was not a local issue. It was an issue of national importance," he said.
His two assertions that the state Government allowed the situation to deteriorate and the judicial probe was not adequate and his demand that the centre should intervene convey many things. It means that the CPI-M does not trust the state Government and that only central intervention can retrieve the situation in Kishtwar and elsewhere in the state. He, unlike Mayawati, did not directly demand imposition of President's rule in the state, but he hinted at a strong action against the state Government and, like Arun Jaitley, said that what happened at Kishtwar on August 9 involved sovereignty and integrity of the country. More importantly, he censured the Omar Abdullah Government in the presence of Farooq Abdullah, Union Minister and National Conference president.
What Sitaram Yechury said must have shattered the National Conference leaders, especially all the three Abdullahs. The fact is that the anti-National Conference sentiment has gripped the opposition. The National Conference leadership must sit up and review its whole policy in its own interest. |
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