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| NC terms as political the seditious activities | | Modi visit to Srinagar | | Neha
JAMMU, Dec 1: "We don't (even) stop separatists from political activities" and "there is no question of stopping Modi," National Conference working president and Chief Minister Omar Abdullah had on Saturday said in response to questions if the state government would allow BJP Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi to hold a rally in Srinagar. "Where is the question of not allowing (Modi in Srinagar)? Please come! If you (BJP) have a party unit here and want to address 500 people, you can come. No one is stopping them (BJP) from holding political activity," he also said.
Responding to a query on his hoarding being put up near BJP rally venue (M A Stadium), Omar Abdullah said there was "nothing to cry about it as these are installed deliberately". "Hoardings are installed deliberately. Such things cannot be done by mistake. This is my state. I am resident of this state. If I want to install a hoarding, I will. It will be my only hoarding in the state. Why this irritation?," he asked.
What Omar Abdullah said about his hoarding near the BJP rally venue is not significant. It is also not significant that he said that Narendra Modi could visit Kashmir to address political rallies, as the BJP has its wing in the Kashmir Valley. Jammu & Kashmir is part of India and Narendra Modi, or for that matter all the BJP leaders and leaders of other political parties, have the right to undertake political activity in the Valley like other parts of the country. It's not pre-1953 position when the Sheikh Abdullah administration, ably backed by the Jawaharlal Nehru government at the Centre, had introduced an obnoxious permit system to bar the people of Jammu & Kashmir from visiting other parts of India and vice-versa.
What was disturbing was Omar Abdullah's statement that his government doesn't stop the seditionists in Kashmir from organizing seditious events. He described the secessionist and break-India activities as "political" and said, "We don't (even) stop separatists from political activities". By making this statement, he only vindicated those who believed, and continue to believe, that the NC-Congress coalition is overtly and covertly helping the secessionists' cause. The very fact that he described the anti-India activities as political activities should establish that there is some sort of understanding between the pro-autonomy NC, pro-1974 Indira-Sheikh Accord and Congress and hardcore separatists and communalists like Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Yasin Malik and so on.
It is regrettable that we have in Jammu & Kashmir a ruling coalition comprising the NC and the Congress which, instead of booking and arresting the secessionists on the charge of sedition, is willfully allowing the separatists to promote their separatist and communal agenda. Indeed, something is fundamentally wrong with the Congress-led UPA Government at the Centre. |
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