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| NC bemoans the separatists' failure | | Kashmir issue raked-up at Tral | | Rustam
JAMMU, Nov 22: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah had on Thursday bemoaned the failure of the separatists to get the Kashmir problem resolved and asserted that the deserting of the Valley by the National Conference leaders (read Farooq Abdullah and his ilk) in 1990 only turned out to be an exercise in futility. "Militancy and violence has changed not an iota on political spectrum of Jammu & Kashmir but resulted in miseries, economic disaster and blood-shed," he said at Tral, and added that "deserting their homeland in 1990's by National Conference leadership was not due to any fear or weakness but with the contention that the then emerging separatists may make dent vis-a-vis resolving vexed Kashmir issue".
Expressing his concern over the failure of the separatists to deliver the desired results, Omar Abdullah further said: "But the result is before you. They (separatists) have not been able to deliver anything other than creating bloodshed and bundles of difficulties for people. Their claim of changing the system and the flag of the State proved totally a failure and they were not able to remove even a bunker from the State what to talk of changing the system. Now, they are talking of scarcity of electricity and construction of infrastructure…I have always talked for the need of talks and will continue to bat for the same to create conducive atmosphere for addressing political issues of Jammu and Kashmir politically".
It is clear from what Omar Abdullah said that the Abdullahs had quit Kashmir in 1990 with a purpose and the purpose, according to him, was to vacate the entire political space in the Kashmir Valley for the extremists and separatists so that they did something concrete to get Kashmir segregated from India. It is a different thing that Omar Abdullah did not really reflect on the then prevailing situation in the Kashmir Valley - situation created by the NC itself in order to retain control over the state power by rigging wholesale the 1987 elections in the Valley. Had the NC and the Congress not conspired against the democratic system and allowed a free and fair electoral exercise in the Valley, the situation there today would have been totally different and there would not have any Kashmir problem. In fact, only a few days ago, the NC additional general secretary Mustafa Kamaal admitted during a TV programme that there was no problem in Kashmir before 1989.
The people do make a point when they hold both the Congress and the NC responsible for the whole mess in Kashmir and long for a situation that renders both these coalition partners irrelevant in the state's political arena. Indeed, the NC and the Congress have wrecked havoc and obstructed the process of integration. |
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