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| CM Omar Abdullah a liability not an asset | | STARK REALITY | | RUSTAM
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Sept 8: Greenhorn in politics and inexperienced Omar Abdullah took over as Chief Minister of sensitive Jammu and Kashmir on January 5, 2008. That day has been turned out to be an inauspicious day for the people of the state in particular and their fellow Indians in general. For, ever since his elevation to the office of Chief Minister, the state has been witnessing turmoil on an unprecedented scale, with the Kashmiri separatists ruling the roost and play all kinds of shots to dismember India and fan communalism and Chief Minister virtually giving them moral and political support, thus practically becoming part of the ongoing rabidly anti-India and patently communal movement.
In the first place the Congress high command should not have handed over the state power to Omar Abdullah considering his controversial credentials. His July 22 Lok Sabha Statement on the Amarnath land issue was a classical example of his commitment to fanaticism and perverted ideology. Once the Congress high command took the undesirable and dangerous plunge, it was incumbent on its part to keep Omar Abdullah and his activities under constant check taking into consideration the larger national interests. It didn't do that.
Instead, the Congress high command, ably backed by the UPA Government, allowed Omar Abdullah to exercise extraordinary authority and play his devious politics to further complicate the already rather complex situation in the state. As was expected, Omar Abdullah, instead of providing corruption-free, efficient, people-friendly, transparent, responsive and accountable administration to the people, misused his constitutional position and started subverting the polity from within. He started his controversial inning from day one.
You may put in any amount of effort to find if the Chief Minister has even once defended the Indian Constitution and the Indian sovereignty and taken on those posing a live challenge to the unity and integrity of India, you will come out of this exercise minus everything. Similarly, you may try to the hilt to find if the Chief Minister has even once taken on the Kashmiri communalists and those working for the establishment of Nizam-e-Mustafa in Jammu and Kashmir, you will again come out of this very serious exercise minus everything.
On the other hand, you will come across instances and instances indicating Omar Abdullah's utter contempt for India and the Indian institutions. His hatred for the Indian Army, Armed Forces Special Powers Act, paramilitary forces and Indian laws and institutions is too well-known. He speaks against them almost everyday. He condemns India and the Indian institutions not only in Kashmir and Jammu but in New Delhi as well. So much so, he challenges the very accession of Jammu and Kashmir with New Delhi in the presence of the Prime Minister and the AICC president and UPA chairperson. That his Qazigund highly outrageous statement in the presence of the Prime Minister and the UPA chairperson that the people of Kashmir needed political package and not economic and employment packages did not move them is a different story.
Had the Prime Minister and the UPA chairperson snubbed Omar Abdullah then and there in full public view, the situation in Kashmir today would have been not that alarming. He should have been dismissed then and there and booked for his what could be termed as out-and-out anti-national statement. By letting him go scot-free, the powers-that-be in New Delhi only emboldened Omar Abdullah to give a more radical orientation to his whole game-plan worked out to unsettle everything in Kashmir and prove that he is no different from those seeking dismemberment of India on one pretext or the other.
The situation has now climaxed to the point that Omar Abdullah is publicly distancing himself from his father and Union Minister Farooq Abdullah, who also is president of the National Conference and who had led the party during the 2008 assembly elections in the state. In fact, he has let down his father badly. For example, Omar Abdullah openly contradicted his father's stand on Syed Ali Shah Geelani on Monday. He asserted: "Geelani factor is an important factor." He commended the same perverted Geelani who had only the other day challenged Farooq Abdullah to address a public rally at Lal Chowk Srinagar. The response of Farooq Abdullah was: "Who is this Geelani. I don't know him. I don't recognize him. Kashmir shall ever remain an integral part of India."
What Omar Abdullah said was very significant in the sense that it not only re-established that the father and the son are treading two different paths, but it also established that Omar Abdullah and Syed Ali Shah Geelani are virtually working in tandem, of course, on the basis of quid-pro-quo/ give and take. You carry on your anti-India activities and I will keep my eyes shut and in return, you will have to reciprocate this gesture by allowing me to remain in power. We will work together for the ultimate cause but in our own ways. You will wreck the Indian state with the help of political establishment in the state from outside and I will wreck the Indian state from within and do everything under the sun to force the amenable authorities in New Delhi to give legitimacy to the politics of separatism and communalism, coupled with the cult of gun and sharp-edged boulders.
This is the situation. It's all anarchy. It's all corrption and mismanagement. The Chief Minister of Kashmir is not Omar Abdullah. The Chief Minister of Kashmir for all practical purposes is Syed Ali Shah Geelani. Both are trying to vitiate the atmosphere in Jammu province as well. The people are suffering. The Army and the paramilitary forces are at the receiving end. The administration is in a state of paralysis. The likes of Mubarak Gul, who have several personal axes to grind and protect their cheat wards, are enjoying immunity. The likes of Saroori, whose wards committed almost the similar crimes, are out of the government. The situation, in short, is horrible, with Omar Abdullah asserting that he will serve as Chief Minister for a full term of six years. What is this? Will New Delhi ever wake up from its slumber? Or, are the authorities in New Delhi stand for what Omar Abdullah and Geelani stand for? The next few days are very crucial. Let us see what happens. Let us see what the authorities in New Delhi do to promote or rein in Omar Abdullah, who has become a liability. But it would be better if the authorities in New Delhi act against Omar Abdullah, who has crossed all the lines by opposing his Father's politics and promoting the politics - Geelani Style. It would be better if someone from the Congress party replaces Omar Abdullah.
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