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| Mufti wins Azad loses the battle | | ‘Sinha the most misunderstood constitutional head’ | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | June 12
The PDP has won and the Congress has lost as far as the issue of allowing Governor, S. K. Sinha, to continue till the end of the Assembly election, due in October. Mufti Mohammed Sayeed had his say and Wednesday proved to be his day when a statement from the Rashtrapati Bhawan announced that the President of India had appointed N. N. Vohra, a former bureaucrat, as successor of Sinha. Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad's support to S. K. Sinha did not carry any weight.
In fact the PDP leadership had been gunning for Sinha for the last over two years. It was no longer a secret that the relations between the Mufti and Sinha had remained sore during the last over four years. The reason for it was the duration proposed by the
Government for the annual Amarnath Yatra. Had not Ghulam Nabi Azad backed, the Governor Sinha would have been told to hang his boots over a year ago when his
term ended on June 4, 2008. Reports said that a week before Sinha had to retire, the Centre had decided to allow him to continue till at least the Amarnath Yatra and the Assembly poll were completed. Sinha had received a hint to this effect and that is why he had given his OK to his engagements till the end of July .These reports said that when Mufti Mohd. Sayeed learnt about the plan of the Centre he took up the issue with the centre and succeeded in getting his demand implemented because he continues to be heard by those in Delhi in whose hands power rests.
Without his fault Governor Sinha became the most misunderstood constitutional head despite the fact that his contribution in the field of education, security and allied matters cannot be underestimated. He is possibly the first Governor who, as Chancellor of five Universities in the State respected the autonomous character of these varsities. Again he was the first constitutional head who kept the doors of the Raj Bhawan open for
academicians, politicians, students and common people open. He was again the first Governor who visited all the forward areas and remote villages during his tenure. It was his genial temperament and his scholarship that had endeared him to various school
authorities and students. He had fine relations with the top brass of the Army, paramilitary forces and the police. Political analysts have started saying that after a long time the state will have in N. N. Vohra, a Governor without Army uniform. If such analysis is read between the lines it means that Lt. Gen.(Retd) Sinha had ruled the state like Gen. Parvez Musharraf. The case was different. S. K. Sinha was a civilian through and through and a decent guy. He has been a victim of political intrigue, the result of clash of interests between the PDP and the Congress in general and between Ghulam Nabi Azad and Mufti Mohd.Sayeed. The latter did not relish the way the former was a frequent visitor to the Raj Bhawan where he sought guidance from the Governor.
Whatever may have been the reason for all this the Government of India has made a sound selection of N. N. Vohra. Vohra as Chief interlocutor of the centre on Kashmir is already known to several political leaders. That he had endeared himself to the Kashmiri
separatists was evident when the leaders of Hurriyat Conference had no qualms in meeting him when he had visited the valley in the past as Government of India's chief interlocutor. The Hurriyat leaders had refused to meet K.C. Pant who had preceded Vohra and centre's negotiator on Kashmir. |
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