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| Those who subverted democracy in J&K are talking of saving democracy in India | | Democracy, NC-style | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Nov 3: Non-BJP parties are trying to build what they call "Mahagathbandhan" at national level and at the state levels. Their stated goal is to defeat the BJP in the states going to elections and dislodge PM Narendra Modi in May 2019. NC president and former J&K CM Farooq Abdullah has also taken the plunge and met a number of anti-Modi and anti-BJP leaders. He has declared that the move on the opposition unity is gaining strength with each passing moment and that the aim is to "save democracy to save India".
Strange was what he said on Friday. Strange because the NC is a party that is known more for subverting democracy and establishing one region's hegemony over the state's two other regions - Jammu and Ladakh -- than protecting and promoting democracy in the state, called J&K. And it started subverting democracy right in 1951, when the elections to the J&K Constituent assembly cum legislative assembly were held. It was all NC assembly as the Sheikh administration rejected nomination papers of 73 out of 75 opposition candidates. Sheikh Abdullah himself was elected to the assembly unopposed.
Ever since then, J&K has been witnessing subversion of democracy with the parties in power at the centre, especially the Congress, siding with the NC. It was in 1987 that the attempt of the NC in collaboration with the Congress to murder democracy through rigging of the assembly elections triggered a revolt in Kashmir with the aggrieved people denouncing the Abdullah dynasty and the Congress and defeated candidates like Syed Slahuddin taking to gun and engineering anti-India revolt. Such was the baneful influence of the attempt at murdering democracy in Kashmir that Farooq Abdullah had to resign on January 19, 1990 and flee to London, where he stayed for years and returned only to contest the 1996 assembly elections. What the NC did after winning the 1996 elections is too fresh to be forgotten. It not only subverted democracy again and again but it also sought to subvert the Indian State itself through its autonomy demand and autonomy resolution and by using the floor of the assembly to question the very accession of the state to India. And this is the party which is hobnobbing with anti-BJP and anti-Modi outfits to protect what Farooq Abdullah calls democracy. Who will buy his argument? |
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