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| Issueless NC raking up non-existent BJP-PDP political nexus | | Diverting people's attention from issues of governance | | Rustam
JAMMU, Feb 22: The ruling NC, which has nothing credible to sell in the State's political market, has turned so desperate that it has started raking up non-issues to hide its miserable failures on all fronts to divert the people's attention away from real issues of governance. One day it talks about the AFSPA. Next day it talks about the Army and paramilitary forces. On another day it talks about the so-called erosion of the State's autonomy and suggests talks between India and Pakistan. In fact, it has started raking up issues which do not appeal to the people of the State, barring the hardcore and arrogant NC leaders and cadres. And, it has been doing so because the entire opposition, and even its own coalition partner Congress, have been on a daily basis tearing into the Chief Minister and top NC leaders, including Farooq Abdullah.
That the NC leadership has turned desperate and feeling increasingly insecure could be seen from its accusation that the main opposition PDP and the BJP have joined hands to destabilize the NC-Congress coalition Government. Who will endorse this ridiculous charge? The PDP and the BJP do not agree on issues of the State's political future. The PDP wants self-rule and the BJP struggles for full integration. Their stands on the Army and the AFSPA are contradictory and mutually exclusive. Likewise, their stands on Pakistan are not consistent with each other. The fact of the matter is that the PDP and the BJP do not share each other's views on any issue, except on one issue: Failure of the NC-Congress coalition to mitigate the people's hardships and provide a responsive, accountable, people-centric, transparent and corruption-free administration. If the PDP and the BJP corner the coalition Government and expose its misdeeds and failures, it is their fundamental duty as opposition parties.
But the frightened and unpopular NC leadership sees in the opposition of the PDP and the BJP to the acts of omission and commission of the NC-led Government a conspiracy against the Government. Yesterday, one of the NC leaders, who has crossed all limits and exposed to the hilt his anti-India stance by terming the hanging of Parliament terror attack case convict Afzal Guru as New Delhi's act indicating its "majoritarian arrogance and aggression", again cried a PDP-BJP conspiracy against the NC-led coalition Government. "There have been series of meetings between senior PDP leaders and close aides of Narendra Modi, courtesy a former IB chief, a female NGO activist and a veteran journalist," he said without giving any proof, and described the non-existent "PDP-BJP bonhomie as a bad omen for Jammu and Kashmir". "Emergence of Modi as Prime Minister will be a bad chapter of secular and democratic India. PDP leaders are saying something in the Valley and quite contrary in Jammu and New Delhi. Lust for power has left them (PDP leaders) in lurch where they cannot differentiate between virtue and bad thing," he also said. He did not say that it was the NC that shared power with the BJP at the Centre and that his master Farooq Abdullah on occasions more than one publicly said only recently that the NC would have no problem if Narendra Modi becomes the Prime Minister. He and others of his ilk would never do that because they would get exposed if they tell the truth. This line of the NC is not going to benefit it; it will only add to its woes. People want governance and not bad politics, Things have changed in the country. Political parties which work for people will survive and others will become irrelevant like the NC has been becoming over the period. It must remember that the people are fed up with its perverted and regressive concept of secularism. |
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