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| NC under extreme frustration | | editorial | |
Ever since it has last power in the state National Conference has been
going away from the main stream politics and coming closer to
separatism. In its extreme frustration, as a result of all its efforts
to mend fences with the Central ruling party, the Congress and come
back to power in alliance with Congress having failed, the NC has now
adopted extreme separatist and pro secessionist policies. It has come
out with the decision to withdraw from the working groups constituted
by the Prime Minister for various fields on Jammu and Kashmir. Taking
the plea of human rights violations having crossed all pervious
records and Prime Minister's assurance of zero tolerance of the
violation of human rights in Jammu and Kashmir having not been
fulfilled, NC has not only decided to withdraw its representatives
from the working groups, but has also announced its decision to not
participate in the round table conference on J&K to be held by the
Centre in future. This is characteristic of the politicians in J&K
that when they are in power they are strong nationalists and even
centralists, but when out of power they adopt separatist postures. The
National Conference is no exception in this regard. Rather this party
has been moving from one extreme to another like the pendulum of the
clock in its policies and programmes, suiting its political
expediency. So long as NC was in power in J&K it had been advocating
with the Central government for taking stern action against the
secessionists and dealing with the militancy with iron hands. The
former Chief Minister and now NC patron, Farooq Abdullah, during his
tenure as the head of the state government, not only resented the
center giving undue importance to the Hurriyat Conference and other
secessionists outfits, but he invariably pleaded with the Union
government to adopt the option of hot pursuit of terrorists across the
LOC and bombard their launching pads in POK and Pakistan. Even during
the Kargil war in 1999 Farooq Abdullah advocated that Indian forces
should cross the line of control, taking retaliatory action against
the aggressor. Not only this, he has only recently stated that he had
opposed release of some hard core militants including Azhar Masood, in
exchange for the release of hostages of kidnapped Indian Airline
flight, which had landed at Kandhar. He has also expressed himself
against the release of some militants in exchange for the release of
then Union Home Minister's daughter Rubiya Mufti from the custody of
her kidnappers. The young NC president Omer Abdullah started his
political career as a staunch Indian Nationalist, having Atal Bihari
Vajpayee as his role model. With NC becoming a part of the ruling NDA,
Omer who had won election to the Lok Sabha for the first time joined
the union ministry and served as MoS for external affairs and
representing India at the United Nation, he took strong anti Pakistan
and anti militants line. He even justified taking of strong actions
against the militants and blamed them for all the violence in J&K. Now
after the NC has been ousted from power in J&K, due to its own acts of
failing, the party leaders have been attributing the loss of power to
their aligning with the Central ruling party and taking anti
secessionist stances. With the hope to regain the confidence of the
people of Kashmir, NC has now started adopting extreme separatist
posture, blaming the union government as well as the security forces
for all the violence in J&K, absolving the militants of any
responsibilities in violation of human rights on their part. It only
betrays extreme frustration in the party.
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