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| Who counts the people and why? | | CM's Kupwara darbaar | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Nov 16: For the past few days, the Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah is trying to reach the people to overcome what New Delhi called `trust deficit' and ‘governance deficit.’ The department of information which issued a paid advertisement yesterday and claimed that more than 4000 people met the Chief Minister at his private office at Srinagar.
Yesterday, Chief Minister held a similar darbaar at Kupwara. A press release from the Information department claimed he met (CM) three thousand people.
Even if the claims are accepted for the sake of arguments, it cannot do any good to the government which the people, by and large believe, has failed them. Who counts the people who come to meet the Chief Minister and why? What does the administration want to prove by issuing such advertisements and press notes?
Most probably, the information department wants to project Omar Abdullah as a popular Chief Minister. Or, does it want to prove that the separatists have become irrelevant and people have started coming back to the mainstream politicians?
Normally such claims cannot be made like this. It needs a thorough study to reach such a conclusion. But, if viewed from a different angle, it tells the story of failure of the state machinery. If people are coming to the Chief Minister in large numbers to seek redressal of their grievances, it means the bureaucracy has failed to deliver so much so that the intervention of the Chief Minister becomes necessary.
And for the information of the administration, Omar Abdullah happens to be the Chief Minister of the state. People will call on him. However, his efficiency cannot be measured by the number of people who call on him. On the contrary, it can be ascertained by the number of grievances redressed during public darbaars. |
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