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| What lies beneath Farooq relinquishing JKCA headship? | | | Abodh Sharma
Jammu, May 6: Dr. Farooq Abdullah's announcement that he would not seek another term as the president of discredited Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association is being taken by his detractor with a pinch of salt.
Sources within JKCA, however, believe that Farooq has pre-empted a defeat for the National Conference in the coming state Assembly elections and with his once confidants within JKCA becoming his bitter adversaries, he has deemed it fit to relinquish the chair he held for more than three long decades. While Aslam Goni, former working president of the JKCA parted ways following controversies in the Association and the National Conference and joined Congress, Mehboob Iqbal, a former bureaucrat who remained loyal to NC and nurtured high ambitions within the JKCA, joined opposition PDP after his retirement.
Most believe that while senior Abdullah was trying to project himself as a selfless benefactor in the middle of the ensuing Lok Sabha elections, he had actually tarnished the fabric of sports administration within J&K beyond repairs by clinging on to the JKCA for over three decades in brazen violation of norms.
Even when JKCA lost its credibility and repute to the infamous scam under Farooq Abdullah, he held on to the chair even though investigating agencies upheld his prima facie involvement. He became the face of violation of the norms governing sports associations of the state as violators raised direct finger on him whenever they were questioned over their holding the offices in state associations for decades illegally.
"It was primarily because of him that the J&K State Sports Council could never restrict the office bearers of other sports associations from holding the offices for repeated terms," said a noted sports administrator. "It was ironical that while he illegally headed the JKCA for decades, either he himself, or his son Omar was the president of the J&K State Sports Council, the apex body responsible for ensuring the implementation of guidelines framed by the International Olympic Committee and the Indian Olympic Association.
The fact that most sports associations in the state have become exclusive domains of the chosen few can to quite an extent be attributed to Dr. Farooq Abdullah. The State Sports Council, which took initiative to dislodge the fiefdom of the sports administrators who have projected them as indispensable faces of J&K's sports scenario, was snubbed on the question of Farooq's continuous illegal occupation of JKCA presidency. |
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