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| ‘An era of innocent killings, amputated limbs and shattered panes’ | | 22 month NC-Cong rule | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Nov 12: Omar led coalition has completed twenty-two months in office. Apart from giving a new look to roads in Jammu and Srinagar cities in the initial days of the regime; the coalition government has failed on all other fronts. According to people in Down Town Srinagar, Omar regime has been an era of broken limbs, amputated hands, damaged eyes and bruised bodies. An elderly man also adds another word; "broken panes."
Immediately after assuming office, the chief minister promised a clean administration. But at the end of the year he summed up the administration `Rotten to the roots'. Strangely enough Omar did not take any measures to put the derailed administration back on rails. How many corrupt officials were taken to task?
Omar could not pay any attention to Gulmarg and the fast dying Dal Lake. While illegal structures came up in the lake during the agitation, Gulmarg was turned into a concrete jungle by influential people. Can Omar escape responsibility?
The Chief Minister also failed on the human rights front. Like his predecessors he ordered probes into abuses and that is it. Omar Abdullah's government has been no different. "AFSPA would go in my regime", Omar said after a few days of assuming office. However, since then he has publicly backed out of his promise. Last year. Omar could not tell the people that AFSPA was needed. His Law Minister, Ali Muhammad Sagar issued a statement saying AFSPA would remain in force until needed.
Omar tried to do some damage control by discussing Kashmir issue in the legislative assembly. He went to the extent of saying that Kashmir was an international dispute and that the accession was temporary and conditional. Omar won many an admirer in the Valley for his `historic speech' but it did not help him much. The timing of the speech was not perfect. It was made when the administration had to move to winter capital. Jammu is different. The BJP and the Panthers Party have threatened state wide agitation to protest his `seditious' speech in the Legislative Assembly.
According to political circles, the speech would have made a difference if delivered immediately after the agitation which commenced on June 11. On the contrary, he chose a time for opening his mouth when New Delhi was accusing him of ‘governance deficit' and `trust deficit' and when 110 persons had fallen to bullets.
The much hyped employment package was unveiled by the Chief Minister on the 104 birth anniversary of Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah. The Chief Minister intends to address what he called a gigantic unemployment problem in a principled manner. However, the package, Sher-e-Kashmir Employment and Welfare Programme for Youth (SKEWPY) evoked mixed reaction. The unemployed youth rejected it as a cruel joke cracked by the Chief Minister in the name of voluntary service allowance. The package, surprisingly took off last fortnight. |
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