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| Omar, Farooq speaking in different tones? | | Father-son duo fight it out in open | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 26: Politics within the National Conference is taking interesting turns as party’s president Dr Farooq Abdullah has began contradicting his son Omar Abdullah over latter’s recent remarks on Article 370 and restoration of statehood.
On Gupkar Resolution:
Omar in his earlier interviews had stated that he has no clue over whether the Gupkar resolution signed last year on August 4 is still intact or not as he is not aware about the stand of other political groups. “The NC hasn’t had a chance to take stock of its own status, much less the status of other political parties as part of that Gupkar declaration. What do the other participants in that meeting think, we don’t know. So, it would be wrong on my part to assume where other parties stand on it.”
On the contrary, Farooq Abdullah has said that Gupkar declaration is a valid document and that he would raise it in the Parliament. He added further: “We all reiterate that we are bound, wholly, by the contents of the Gupkar Declaration and will unwaveringly adhere to it. We are committed to strive for the restoration of Articles 370 and 35A, the Constitution of J-K and the restoration of the state and any division of the state is unacceptable to us. We unanimously reiterate that there can be 'nothing about us without us”
On contesting elections:
Omar Abdullah in his interviews has categorically stated that he wouldn’t be contesting elections until statehood wouldn’t be restored to Jammu and Kashmir. On the contrary, Farooq Abdullah has distanced himself from the comments of his son on contesting polls.
Any decision regarding participation in elections in Jammu and Kashmir will be collectively taken by all the six political party leaders who signed the 'Gupkar declaration' last year, Farooq Abdullah, had said on August 25, this year. “When election time will come, we will meet and then decide at that time what leaders (of six parties) will decide will be the decision,” Farooq Abdullah said.
Wedge within:
Pertinently, chaos engulfed the party after Omar’s close aide Tanvir Sadiq wrote in a local daily that priority at present should be the release of leaders and restoration of 4G internet. As a starting point for this, let all political prisoners arrested post-August 5 be released, revisit the domicile law and lift all curbs on the Internet and telecommunication and let the end of the pandemic and the beginning of the political process be run along parallel lines. Kashmir, its people, and the country need this,” Tanvir wrote.
Party’s former chief spokesman and a prominent Shia leader Aga Ruhullah Mehdi was first to raise the voice, terming party’s core ideology and its present stand on Kashmir’s special status frighteningly misplaced.
“‘Revisit’ domicile law? Lift curbs on Internet? …If I am not reading wrong, you are basically asking for 4G and THEIR ‘PERMISSION’ to let us start the political process? & then all is well?”
“What is a political process for you? Only an election? If we go with a reason and stand our course, even being detained is a part of the political process. Sorry, it’s insulting to ask them to ‘let us’,” Mehdi said.
“I wish and pray for their immediate release. But, believe our (house) detention is a political message and process itself. I am currently under house detention and I am honestly ready to be taken to a prison after what I say. But I would never ask them to let us. When you ask them to let us, it will naturally be on their terms,” he added.
Mehdi tendered his resignation from the party and the post soon after Omar Abdullah wrote an Oped in a national daily that he won’t contest the assembly elections till J&K’s statehood is restored. |
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