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| editorial | | Congress, PDP coalition under threat | | Although the Chief Minister, Ghulam Nabi Azad has not named any one,
yet his dig at the advocates of self rule by observing that the self
rule for these people means rule by them and not by the people is a
clear hint of his snub to the coalition partner of the Congress, the
PDP, who has been advocating self rule for Kashmir. So long as PDP
chief Mufti Mohd. Sayeed was the Chief Minister of the state, PDP
never thought of raising the demand for self rule and this slogan was
kind only after the change of guard in the state government with
Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad replacing Mufti as head of the
government and the power slipping from PDP to Congress. Thus so long
as PDP man was heading the State Government, it was the self-rule for
the PDP and when the Chief Minister's post went to the Congress the
cry for self-rule was raised. By taking a dig at the advocates of self
rule, meaning the PDP,whose leaders, Mufti Sayeed and his daughter
Mehbooba Mufti have been day in and day out making such demand, which
has been originally mooted by Pak President, Parvez Musharaf and has
been outrightly rejected by the Central government as well as the
Congress party in the state, Azad has thrown clear hint of differences
between the PDP and the Congress, the two main coalition partners in
the state government over the vital issue with the PDP continuously
harping on the tune of self rule and demilitarization as well as
pleading for dialogues with the militants on the one hand and Pakistan
on the other, even after the militancy escalating in the state as well
as spreading its tentacles in other parts of the country as its
evident from serial blasts in Mumbai, with government of India
categorically charging Pakistan for its involvement in terrorism and
then the two countries expelling each other's diplomats, the
differences between the Congress and the PDP are bound to widen. There
are reports that the Azad ministry expansion which was on the cards
these days has been put off due to growing differences within the
coalition partners over some vital issues. Ghulam Nabi Azad is learnt
to be lately feeling preturbed over the PDP now and then causing him
embarrassment by its pro terrorist overtures. Mehbooba Mufti's
statement, implicitly contradicting Ghulam Nabi Azad's claim in the
state legislature that human rights violations in J&K have lately come
down, has been taken serious exception by Azad. Until some serious
corrective measures are taken and the PDP changes its line of thinking
and desists from giving pro militant and secessionist statements and
distances itself from the anti India elements in Kashmir, there is
every fear of coalition between the Congress and the PDP getting
rocked. Under the given scenario of growing sourness in Indo-Pak
relations and the Congress lead government in the Center releasing the
necessity to harden its stand towards the militants and the
separatists as well as their mantros across the border, the
partnership between the Congress and the PDP is bound to suffer a
jolt. In the wider country's context Congress can hardly afford to
carry on the burden of terrorist and separatists friendly party, on
its shoulders.
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