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| Farooq acting as a jilted lover | | His accusations against centre, Mufti for J&K's ills are only half true | | Early Times Special Correspondent
Jammu | Feb 16
Behaving like a jilted lover whose love overtures and advances are turned down by the beloved and who in frustration goes all out of the way to defame his sought of darling and hurls choicest abuses on her, assassinating her character as well as the character of the successful lover, the former J&K Chief Minister and NC patron Dr. Farooq Abdullah, whose overtures of re-conciliation with the Central ruling party and NC's tie up the Congress are aborted, has in a single breath laid the responsibility of all ills of the state today on the shoulders of the Central ruling dispensations as well as his rival Mufti Mohammad Sayeed.
While Farooq Abdullah's accusations against Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, of conspiring to topple his government in 1964 by engineering defections of some NC MLAs, forming a government of defectors led by his estranged brother-in-law G M Shaw, then instigating communal riots in South Kashmir, to defame the Shaw government and ultimately toppling the same by withdrawing the support of then Mufti led Congress to the Shaw government, does have some weight, his laying of the blame on the central ruling dispensations for the problems being faced by the people in J&K and blaming them for being insincere towards the welfare of the J&K people, are only half true. Dr. Farooq Abdullah as well as his illustrious father and the tallest Kashmiri leader, Sheikh Abdullah and for that matter the National Conference cannot not absolve themselves of the responsibility, for being accomplices to the machinations of the powers that be in the Centre to deny the people of J&K their due place in the Indian comity and exploit them to the hilt.
Right from the first assembly elections held in the state in 1952, which were rigged whole-hog by Sheikh Abdullah government, with Congress government in the centre being a passive partner, the people of J&K have always been denied free and fair elections to choose their representatives to govern them. The rulers have been installed by the centre on the people here with the active support and complicity of the dominant political party and its leaders in the state. They in turn are accountable only to their masters in Delhi, but not to the people of the state. While the powers that be in the Centre have always thrust the leaders whom they felt convenient to them on the, people of the state, theses centrally prompted ruling leaders in the state exploited the common man to the hilt. The first Prime Minister of the state, Sheikh Abdullah was no exception nor was Farooq Abdullah during his various tenures as Chief Minister of the state. Sheikh Abdullah exploited to the full Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal's weakness for him and his antipathy to Maharaja Hari Singh, against whom Nehru entrained the grudge to have hurt his ego. Both Nehru and Abdullah contrived to force Hari Singh to abdicate in favour of his minor son Karan Singh and then opt for self exile, at a premature stage. Sheikh Abdullah, who had no following at all in Jammu and Ladakh was thrust on the people of these two regions as well, against whom he indulged in worst discrimination in all the fields. With full support and backing of Nehru Abdullah acted as a despotic ruler, suppressing all the fundamental rights of the people of Kashmir, Jammu as well as Ladakh, by running a highly corrupt government. The incorporation of Article 370 in the Indian constitution, providing for special status to J&K, was the brain child of Sheikh Abdullah, to use it as a means to deny the people of the state their fundamental rights and suppress their basic liberties. Abdullah's overthrow, arrest and Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad's corrupt rule and then G M Sadiq replacing Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad, with a brief stint of Bakshi's puppet Shamasudin's government---all this is a history.
While Farooq Abdullah sheds tears over overthrow of his duly elected government---courtesy conspiracy hatched by then Governor Jagmohan and then Pradesh Congress Chief Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, he conveniently forgets his joining hands again with the Congress, under Rajeev—Farooq accord, to fulfill his lust for power and above all the rigging of 1987 assembly elections jointly by the National Conference and the Congress. It was this development which shook the faith of Kashmiris in Indian democracy reflecting genuinely in Kashmir as well and in turn was to a great extent responsible for the alienated and frustrated Kashmiri youths to fall prey to the hostile neighbouring country Pakistan and take guns to wage war on India. Have you any answer to these, Dr. Farooq Abdullah? |
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