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| Detained NC leaders want to leave country? | | Party denies; Says they will stay in Kashmir after being set free | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Jan 14: Reports about a few detained National Conference leaders trying to work out a deal with the government to move out of the country is an indication that these leaders have realized that the road has ended for them.
The National Conference has denied that any of its leaders are working out such a deal and they would continue to stay in the Valley even after they are set free.
More than 40 Kashmir centric leaders were detained on after August 5, 2019, when the Government of India (GoI) announced its decision to abrogate J&K’s special status and divided the erstwhile State into two union territories. Earlier the detained leaders were lodged at Centaur Hotel on banks of Dal Lake and later they were shifted to MLA Hostel in Srinagar. Nearly half of them have been released during the past few months.
Three former chief ministers of J&K Farooq Abdullah, his son Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti were detained on the same day but lodged separately. Farooq Abdullah was subsequently booked under Public Safety Act (PSA) and is serving detention at his Gupkar residence, which has been declared as sub-jail. Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti have been detained in the government guest houses in Srinagar.
An analyst while talking to Early Times said, “Although the NC has denied that its leaders want to move out of the country but many people believe that top leaders of the party have no other option other than brokering a deal and saying goodbye to Kashmir. Their type of politics has no takers in the newly carved out Union Territory of J&K.”
He said, “Kashmir centric leaders during the past 70-years misled the people by raising hollow slogans and thrived on false narrative. They kept on telling the people that J&K’s accession with the Union of India is temporary and it’s a dispute which needs to be resolved. Their narrative stands punctured post August 5.”
Referring to the recent statement of senior leader of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Muzaffar Hussain Beigh, that Mehbooba Mufti’s threatening tone prior to August 5 could be one of the reasons for Kashmir centric leaders being placed under detention, an observer said, “Not her statements only but her actions too were provocative. As a chief minister of J&K she made every attempt to give legitimacy to the separatists by terming them as the stakeholders. She always used to say that Pakistan has to be involved to resolve Kashmir.”
He said NC leaders, including Farooq and Omar Abdullah, after losing power had become very vocal about the role of Pakistan in Kashmir. “It seems now these leaders have been left with no other option but to move out as there is bleak possibility about them fitting into new set up” the observer added. |
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