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| None would believe Cong spokesperson | | Hanging of terrorist Afzal Guru | | Neha
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Feb 10: Congress' national spokesperson Ajoy Kumar on Monday dissociated the Congress party from the controversial former Union Minister Shashi Tharoor's statement on Afzal Guru, who was convicted in the 2001 Parliament attack case and was hanged and buried within the premises of Tihar Jail, Delhi, on February 9, 2013. "I think the hanging was both wrong and badly handled. Family should have been warned, given a last meeting and body returned," Tharoor said on Twitter. Reacting to the statement, Ajoy Kumar said the Congress had nothing to do with the Tharoor's statement. "Due process of law was followed. Supreme Court convicted him and the execution was the culmination of the judicial process. In no way, any law was contravened. (UPA) Government was not involved," Kumar said.
No body would believe Ajoy Kumar. For, Tharoor didn't say anything new. He only took the stand senior Congressman and Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad and his cronies in J&K took on February 6 and 7 to enlist the support of anti-India MLA from Langate Er Rashid to ensure the victory of Azad in the Rajya Sabha elections held on February 7 in Jammu.
It bears recalling that five Congress MLAs -- G M Saroori, Vikar Rasool, Haji Rashid, Muhammad Amin Bhat and GulzarWani - just on the eve of the Rajya Sabha elections in a signed statement said that they support the demands of Er Rashid that Guru should have been allowed to meet his family members and that his body should have been handed over to his family members. "The demand made by Rashid for return of Guru's mortal remains is a humanitarian issue…The views of Er Rashid regarding allowing a last meeting with his kith and kin are genuine and based on humanitarian values and denial of same was a mistake," they said in their highly questionable statement.
The Congress MLAs (all Azad loyalists), in fact, tendered apology on behalf of the Congress party and the Congress candidate Azad to get Er Rashid's vote - a revelation to which effect was made by Rashid himself while talking to reporters. "The Congress MLAs have apologized, saying that not allowing Afzal's family to meet him was a mistake and the demand for return of his mortal remains was a humanitarian issue…It was the demand of every Kashmiri and apology of Congress legislators is their victory," the very pleased Rashid said. He said he voted for Azad only after the Congress MLAs tendered apology and endorsed his stand on the Guru episode.
Ajoy Kumar says that the Congress has nothing to do with the statement of Tharoor. He is not right. The fact of the matter is that the Congress high command was fully supportive of what Azad and his cronies did for getting a vote from Rashid and what Tharoor said two days later. It should be remembered that in the Congress party the writ of the Congress high command comprising Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra only runs and that no one can make any policy statement without their consent. Indeed, the Congress has only pandered to terrorists and anti-India elements in Kashmir by tendering apology on the issue of terrorist Guru and just for a single vote and a single seat. But all this should not surprise any one in the state or elsewhere. After all, the Congress has never considered Jammu & Kashmir an integral of India to the same extent as other states of the Union and that it has also all along considered Kashmiri Muslims a race apart. |
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