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| PDP stands isolated | | editorial | | Chief Minister, Ghulam Nabi Azad has received support for his
statement, implicitly rubbishing his main coalition partner, PDP for
harping on the tune of self-rule and demilitarization, from the
unexpected quarter, with BJP in Jammu fully endorsing his stand on the
issue. The main opposition party in the state, National Conference too
has come out openly in support of Chief Minister ridiculing the
advocates of self-rule and demilitarization. The NC president, Omer
Abdullah, while supporting Azad that those who ask for self-rule are
themselves not clear about what they mean by the slogan they raise and
that the same is only a hollow slogan, meant to befool the Kashmiris
at large. Rejecting PDP's demand for demilitarization, both Azad and
Omer have said that those who demand withdrawal of forces from the
state, ask for doubling their own security by deployment of more
guards outside their homes and offices as well as their personal
security guards. Omer Abdullah has even dared Mufti Mohammad Sayeed
and his daughter, Mehbooba Mufti, Who are the Chief protagonists of
demilitarization that they should first come to Lal Chowk, Srinagar or
visit Anantnag without the security cover. With the other coalition
partners in the state government, including PDF and Panthers Party in
Jammu too opposing these unrealistic demands of PDP, the latter stands
isolated on the issue. They get support, if at all, it comes from the
hard core secessionist group led by Sayeed Ali shah Geelani, who is
out and out for secession of Kashmir from India and its joining
Pakistan on the ground of Kashmir being Muslim majority area. The
observers read in Ghulam Nabi Azad taking strong posture and leaving
no opportunity to ridicule the PDP demand for self-rule and
demilitarization, as a subtle retaliatory move to corner the main
coalition partner of the Congress, after the PDP forced him to
surrender his prerogative to allot portfolios to his ministers by
creating a sort of crisis in the government, making Azad to ultimately
appoint Mufti Sayeed and Mehbooba's favourite PDP minister Tariq Hamid
Qara as Finance, Planning and Law Minister. Azad would like to convert
the cold war between the two major coalition partners from the war
over distribution of loaves and fishes to an ideological war by
attacking the PDP's latest main plank of self rule and
demilitarization. In this fight he has got the support from NC as well
as BJP. An other main discomfort to the PDP on this issue, by far,
comes from one of their own founder members, Muzaffar Hussaim Beig who
has characterised PDP's plank for self-rule and demilitarization as a
hoax, aimed at befooling the Kashmiri masses. Beig's statement that
there is hardly any difference between the NC's demand for greater
autonomy and PDP's self rule has come handy to the NC, who claims that
while their agenda of autonomy is a clear cut one, PDP's self rule is
confusing and Vague.
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