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| J&K international issue, Congress mum, Delhi groping in the dark | | | RUSTAM
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Nov 12: "New Delhi has already accepted the 5 points put forward by the chairman of Huriyat Conference (G) Syed Ali Shah Geelani. Three interlocutors appointed by New Delhi have already declared Kashmir a disputed issue and they have acknowledged that Pakistan has a role. New Delhi has not denied any of these statements. Remaining four points (demilitarization, repeal of AFSPA and other anti-terror laws, release of terrorists and separatists and action against security forces) of the formula fall within the domain of the state government and we are working on them…Jammu and Kashmir is an international issue…The back-channel talks between these nations India and Pakistan) will resume soon and my government will be part of these. These talks will be aimed at finding a permanent solution to the K-issue…My (October 6 accession/merger) speech in the legislature is a history. It reflects my way of thinking and New Delhi has no role to play in it…They (people) have given me a chance to serve them for 6 years…"
Who has said so? Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said so. Where did he express these out and out break-India views? He expressed these highly outrageous and fundamentally anti-India views in Srinagar. When did he express these views and where did he reiterate that Jammu and Kashmir is an international issue and that the state only acceded to India and not merged with it? He expressed these views only yesterday. With whom he shared these break-India and segregate Jammu and Kashmir-from-India views? He shared these provocative views with a local news agency KNS. What was the purpose of the revolting Chief Minister? His purpose was to strengthen and expand his communal and separatist constituency in Kashmir by identifying himself completely with the Kashmiri separatists, particularly the protagonist of Pakistan and Nizam-e-Mustafa Syed Ali Shah Geelani, and erode the support-base of the People's Democratic Party, votary of a solution that establishes parity between India and Pakistan and empowers Islamabad to exercise equal sovereign powers with New Delhi in the Indian Jammu and Kashmir. Were these remarks of the Chief Minister off-the-cuff? No, these were not off-the-cuff remarks. It was not a lapse on his part. Whatever he said was deliberate, well-calculated and ill-designed.
What has motivated the Chief Minister to air such uncalled for views? Several reasons. The most notable one is his utter failure as Chief Minister. He has lost his way and failed the state and its people. He doesn't know how to administer the complicated, the most difficult and the highly sensitive Jammu and Kashmir State. He has no control over the government he heads. He has failed to take along his own bureaucrats, barring a few. He has failed to provide a transparent and corruption-free administration. He has miserably failed to establish rapport with the opposition parties. There is a complete disconnect between the ruler and the ruled. He has lost touch with the masses. There is what the Union Government called "Trust deficit." There is what the Union Cabinet Committee on Security called "governance deficit." He has even failed to carry conviction with some of the National Conference veterans because he has allowed himself to be surrounded by persons with no mass experience, persons who know nothing about the sensitivities of the people inhabiting different regions of the state.
The fact of the matter is that he and his National Conference are at the receiving end, with people belonging to all the regions of the state castigating them and holding them responsible for all the troubles facing not just Kashmir, but also Jammu and Ladakh. The Chief minister knows it full well. He knows it that his is a non-performing government and insensitive. He knows it that he doesn't enjoy the people's support and, hence, he has thought of a methodology that, he thinks, has the potential of deflecting the people's attention from the real issues and helping him retain control over the Chief Minister's office. What he told the news agency yesterday in Srinagar is part of that mischievous methodology that he has devised to hoodwink the public opinion and divert the people's attention away from his failures and mal-administration. (To be continued) |
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