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| Cong, NC, CPI-M insulting the Jammu & Ladakhi electorate | | Refusing to learn lessons from past mistakes | | Rustam
Jammu, June 28: Neither the defeated NC nor the rejected Congress seems to have learned any lesson from the past mistakes. Even the CPI-M, which is of little consequence, as it has as its members a few hundred fake comrades inhabiting a couple of pockets in Kulgam Assembly constituency in Kashmir. The Congress leaders like Ghulam Nabi Azad and the so-called NC leaders like Devendra Singh Rana, who have crossed all the lines by creating an impression that they are more loyal than the king, of attributing the defeat of the Congress and the NC candidates in the Lok Sabha election to polarization that took place on the eve of, during the election period and on the election day and they have been holding the BJP responsible for polarization of society on religious lines.
The likes of Rana are denouncing both the PDP and the BJP on a daily basis, saying the leadership of these two parties worked behind the curtain to ensure polarization. It's a spurious charge. How could the BJP help the PDP leadership polarize the election scene in Kashmir and the PDP leadership help the BJP polarize the election scene in Jammu? The PDP leadership had hardly spoken against the BJP during the election campaigning. Similarly, the BJP hardly made the PDP its election poll plank. Significantly, the likes of Rana continue to attack the PDP and the BJP even today for reasons best known to them. As for Azad, he has not been attacking the PDP. He wants to keep the option of forging an alliance with the PDP after the Assembly election in case the Congress failed to obtain majority in the Assembly. He is attacking only the BJP, the RSS and the Bajrang Dal and in the process further offending the majority community in Jammu province, and even the Buddhist and Shiite Muslims in Ladakh. It would not be wrong to say that they are insulting the electorate in Jammu province, Ladakh and Kashmir.
None of them has been recognizing that it was the NC-Congress coalition's misrule and the corrupt administration the ruling coalition handed down to the people that culminated in the decimation of the coalition's candidates. It was the disconnect between the leadership and the people, disunity among the party leadership, ego clashes, governance-deficit, failure to deliver, politics of rabble-rousing, arrogant and irresponsible behaviour, lop-sided policies, neglect of the entire population of Jammu province and Ladakh region and sections of society in Kashmir, which didn't endorse the sectarian approach of the ruling coalition, that made the people dump the NC-Congress candidates in all the three regions and repose confidence in the PDP candidates in Kashmir and BJP candidates in Jammu and Ladakh. If the NC and the Congress leadership continues to behave in the manner it behaved before defeat and behaving after defeat, both the parties would become a story of the past.
What about the insignificant CPI-M? Its state secretary Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami, who owes his entry into the Assembly to the NC in general and Farooq Abdullah in particular, has been saying that any move aimed at communal polarization in the state is fraught with dangerous consequences for the entire region. He, like the Ranas and Azads, has been accusing the BJP of polarizing the society in Jammu and Kashmir for vote-bank politics. It is not the BJP that is polarizing the society; the BJP has been saying India is one state and one people and the need of the time is governance and development and not senseless insistence on fake secularism. It is the parties like the Congress, NC and the CPI-M that have never allowed different social groups to work together. On the contrary, these outfits have along pitted one section of society against the other and followers of one religion against the other hoping their policy of divide and rule would help them capture power and retain control over it. This is a wrong approach.
And today itself, former Defence Minister and Sonia Gandhi loyalist AK Antony publicly said in Kerala that the Congress-led UPA Government's preferential approach towards one particular minority community offended the majority community in the country and the result was the UPA's debacle. It is time for the likes of Azad to imitate Antony, who for all practical purposes today opposed the decision of the Congress-led coalition Government in Maharashtra to grant five per cent reservation to the Muslims in Government jobs and educational institutions. |
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