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| Arrogance by Ministers and politicians becomes order of the day in J&K | | |
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Aug 7: Senior National Conference leader and Minister of Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution Choudhary Mohammad Ramzan today allegedly abused, harassed and humiliated Chief Minister of Public Health Engineering Department, Kashmir, Muzaffar Ahmad Lankar at a high level official meeting in the PHE Minister Sham Lal Sharma's office. The officer walked out with tears in his eyes and drove straight to his office in Rajbagh, only to write and tender his resignation.
On Wednesday, Congress leader (and the one-time pro-India Ikhwanul Muslimoon chief Kukka Parray's son) Imtiyaz Ahmad Parray allegedly manhandled a lady doctor, Rehana, at Hajan in Sumbal area of Bandipora district when he refused to come out of her hospital to treat his ailing sister at a private chemist's shop. The politician reportedly caught the lady doctor by her hair and pushed her against a wall, though Parray has denied the allegation and claimed that the physician actually declined to treat an Ikhwani's sister. Police has registered an FIR, as also a counter FIR.
On Tuesday, NC Sarpanch and leader in Budgam Abdul Ahad allegedly threatened and abused Chief Medical Officer Budgam Dr Mehmooda Kar at an emergency medical camp at Chhoon village, close to the district headquarters of Budgam. The camp had been set up to treat over 1,000 residents of the village who complained of diarrhea and gastroenteritis after consuming contaminated water of a local reservoir built and maintained by PHE Division Budgam. On the CMO's written complaint, Budgam Police Station has reportedly registered FIR against the ruling NC leader.
The list goes unlimited as with every passing day one or the other incident of the arrogance of Jammu and Kashmir politicians takes place. So the Higher Education Minister Akbar Lone is no exception when he slaps and silences a poor unemployed voter at Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's public rally in Rafiabad constituency ahead of the Lok Sabha election. The Minister made a brazen misuse of the power and authority he gets from the voters' ballot. Next month only, the hapless voters punished the Higher Education Minister for his uncouth behavior and the Chief Minister for keeping his eyes and ears shut to the atrocities committed by his Cabinet colleagues. NC was routed on all the three constituency in the valley.
Chief Minister had previously tolerated much more of his Ministers and political associates. One of such bizarre incidents went live on the national TV when none other than Akbar Lone hurled naked abuses in the name of the mother and daughter of the senior PDP leader and highly respected religious leader Maulvi Iftikhar Ansari on the floor of the Assembly in Srinagar. Lone was then holding the more sensitive chair of the Speaker of Legislative Assembly who is bound by law and tradition to remain neutral and give equitable treatment to the members irrespective of their political and party affiliation. Chief Minister kept watching the drama for five minutes, refusing to reprimand the unbridled politician.
Weeks before last year's communal outburst in Kishtwar, NC leader and then Minister of State for Home Sajjad Ahmad Kichloo allegedly abused and slapped the Chief Executive Officer of Kishtwar Development Authority at an official meeting minutes before Chief Minister's arrival in town. The official went to file FIR against the Minister but the Police refused to entertain any complaint against the junior Home Minister. The complainant approached a judicial magistrate who ordered registration of a criminal case against the Minister.
In Budget session this year, PDP's MLA of Rajpora and a former Minister of State for Education Syed Bashir slapped a watch & ward official repeatedly when the Assembly marshals on the Speaker Mubarak Gul's orders were physically removing the MLA from the well.
Will this arrogance, which the common voters will definitely avenge in the upcoming Assembly elections, sustain for a second if the Chief Minister and other custodians of the public servants' self-respect and dignity decide to act as per their conscience and bounden duty? Chief Secretary has the greater responsibility of taking cognizance and conveying to the political establishment in no uncertain terms that arrogance with the public servants will not be tolerated. Right Mr Khanday? |
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