| When Farooq Abdullah said Kashmir isn’t India’s integral part | | Nov 16, 2016: | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Feb 10: At present when the national conference is mourning the slapping of Public Safety Act against its leaders including its patriarch Dr Farooq, the party seems to have forgotten its venom soaked statements against India issued during the poll campaigns.
At the onset of the winter period in Kashmir- on November 16, 2016 National Conference (NC) patron Dr Farooq Abdullah said Kashmir never was and never will be an integral part of India. Addressing party workers, Farooq Abdullah said, “Kashmir is not an integral part of India. New Delhi will never believe Kashmiris and will never accept Kashmir problem,” he said.
“People who are shouting Aazadi (freedom slogans) slogans hardly know what Aazadi is all about. Our young generations know what India did in Kashmir which is why the youth are today on roads for freedom,” he said.
He said both India and Pakistan must talks on Kashmir issue. “That is the only solution to this long pending problem. Otherwise, he said, it will keep on escalating.”
“We are concerned about peace. Indian and Pakistan must sit down and hold talks about the Kashmir issue,” he said.
The former J&K Chief Minister said that in the year 2000, the J&K assembly unanimously passed the Autonomy resolution calling for the restoration of pre- 1953 position to the state, but what has happened to that resolution.
Media reports paint his portrait in the following words at that time. “There is no denial of the fact that Abdullah is a master of capriciously drifting in one direction, retrace his steps fast and then swerve to another direction. And get away with it.”
In the past, he has gotten away with praise for Narendra Modi, at one point of time defending him soon after the 2002 riots. In 2011, while addressing a gathering in Ahmedabad, Abdullah said he longed for the day when he would see Allah in Modi’s eyes. What is more, soon after Afzal Guru was hanged last year, Abdullah said Guru had got a fair trial, overturning his son’s outrage over the repugnant execution.
As one New Delhi based News Magazine wrote about Farooq Abdullah: “He can be alternately pro- and anti-New Delhi, traverse seamlessly the distance from allegiance to his religion to commitment to secularism to the praise of the right-wing.”
Meanwhile, the statement Dr Farooq issued on Wednesday was to hoodwink public opinion and to manage grabbing some space for his already routed party. As his son witnessed the worst ever defeat during the 2014 polls, NC has been striving since then to regain the lost constituency. In this bid, the party sometimes has been making statements in which separatists are hailed and in other statements, same separatists are being ridiculed.
In the year 2015, on November 28, Farooq Abdullah termed Kashmir as India’s part and said POK should be given to Pakistan. “I had told them to keep that part of Kashmir and we will keep this part for resolution of the matter. We will correct the line (LoC) and this will ease travel and trade between people on both sides,” Farooq quoted Vajpayee as having told Pakistan during his Lahore visit. |
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