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| NC-Cong coalition Government alien to aam aadmi | | |
Bashir Assad
JAMMU, Jan 7: Even as the Omar Abdullah led National Conference-Congress coalition Government has completed five years in office and will, for all its probabilities, complete its full term , the performance of the Government is so disappointing that corruption has reached a peak. One would recall that at the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit 2012, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah startled everybody by stating that it is not possible for the alliance Government to wipe out corruption. This clearly indicates that the Chief Minister himself has belied all his assertions because in the last four years, as the Chief of the alliance Government, he kept harping on promises to wipe out corruption. Ten years ago, Jammu and Kashmir was ranked as the second most corrupt State of the country. In 2005, after a survey of the most corrupt States done by Transparency International, an International organization, Jammu and Kashmir was placed at the second spot after Bihar. In the last one decade, corruption in Jammu and Kashmir is increasing exponentially. It can be surmised from the fact that in the State Accountability Commission, there are hundreds of corruption cases filed against dozens of former and current Ministers, bureaucrats, legislators and police officials of Jammu and Kashmir. More than 800 cases have been filed against current and former politicians and Government officials by the Vigilance Organization and Crime Branch of the State. But the bureaucrats and politicians invented a novel method of getting the proceedings of corruption cases stayed.
The present condition Government can be easily assessed if we judge the statement (that it is not possible for the alliance Government to eradicate corruption) of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah against the backdrop of such situations. In 2008, when the alliance Government of the National Conference and the Congress was formed under the leadership of Omar Abdullah, then critics termed it a 'marriage of convenience.' Their logic was that both the constituent parties of the Government will not do any work, except that from which they can get profit. In the last four years, this prediction of the critics has proved to be totally correct. The problem is not just corruption, but also bad Governance. Quite astoundingly at the time of formation of this alliance, no road map or in other words no common minimum program was set for running the Government. It was perhaps the only alliance of its kind which had no roadmap, nor had it any common minimum program. But the ideological rather perceptional differences between the coalition partners took a heavy toll on the performance of the Government and it was the aam aadmi of Jammu and Kashmir who had to bear the brunt of the internal rift of the ruling alliance.
It is equally astounding that leaders of both the parties have been staking their claims on what was never done on ground so far the implementation of development schemes was concerned. So much so, tall and top leaders of both the parties come all along from their Delhi mansions to take credit for what has never been translated on ground. |
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