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| Jammu, Ladakh and minorities victims of K sub-nationalism | | Secular ethos, NC-style | | Neha
JAMMU, Apr 14: On Sunday, National Conference (NC) provincial president, MLA Amira Kadal and Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's right hand man, Nasir Aslam Wani, claimed that his party and its ally represented the "secular ethos of India and State" and dismissed both PDP and BJP as parties that represent "rank political opportunism".
This is the biggest joke of the year and he cracked this joke while addressing a public meeting at Chanpora, Kashmir.
He also claimed that the NC had always sided with secular forces and entities (read fake secular formations like the UPA) even when that meant compromising on opportunities of gaining political power".
He took the people for a ride in the sense that the victims of the secular ethos, NC-style would not understand what he and others of his ilk had been saying since decades. What he said must have made many to laugh at. The NC is the one political party that has never missed any opportunity to grab political power. It worked with the Congress during the time of Sheikh Abdullah and Farooq Abdullah, despite the fact that the latter had dismissed both of them as a threat to national security, and it has been working with the Congress since January 2009 as well, notwithstanding the fact that its additional general secretary from time to abuses and ridicules the local Congress leadership and accusing it and New Delhi of eroding the state's autonomy and weakening the party of the Abdullahs.
The NC leader did not stop just there. He went on to claim that the NC-Congress coalition had been working together to "protect the interests of the minorities in India". His claim was well founded.
Indeed, the UPA has tried to the hilt to promote the interests of the minorities in India, especially the Muslim and Christian minorities.
Actually, the UPA is a formation that has polarized the Indian society by evolving and implementing ruthlessly what is being termed by the bulk of the majority community as "appeasement policy". No one would question his assertion.
However, one would surely question the so-called secular ethos of the NC and its ally. The reasons are not fat to seek. Ask the people of Jammu province as to what they think about the NC's claim that it represents secular ethos. The instant response would be like this: Down with this brand of secular ethos. The response of the Ladakhis, barring a few disgruntled elements here and there, would be the same.
The oppressed people of both these regions have been denouncing the NC and the NC-led coalition government for years now, saying they have rendered them unreal and ineffective for all practical purposes, hat they have no say whatever in the governance of the state and that theirs is the government that is of one region, of one sect and for one sect. The people of Jammu and Ladakh are absolutely right.
And ask the refugees from West Pakistan, the SCs, the OBCs and the STs as to what they think about the secular ethos of the NC and its ally.
They would denounce them in downright language and say that the NC and similar other Kashmir-centric outfits have made their life a veritable hell on earth. Remember, the NC and similar other outfits, including the Congress, have deprived these social groups of those rights which are available to their counterparts in the rest of the country. And as for the minorities like the Kashmiri Hindus and Kashmiri Sikhs, the less said the better. Suffice to say that the miniscule minority of Kashmiri Hindus quit the Valley long ago to escape persecution at the hands of fanatics and many Sikhs also migrated to Jammu and other places in the early 1990 for the same reason.
The truth, in short, is that there is no place whatever for the other in the secular ethos, NC-style. The NC's ideology is not just divisive and communal but also exclusivist. Its stand on Jammu & Kashmir vis-à-vis India, blistering attacks on the Indian Constitution, the Indian Army, the Indian institutions, its demand seeking greater autonomy (read semi-independence) and its social and economic policies should explain what it means by secular ethos. |
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