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| Yes, it's true NC is responsible for people's woes | | | NEHA
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Nov 30: NC president and Union Minister Farooq Abdullah hit the nail on the head when he declared in Kolkata the other day that the "separatists won't get an inch of Kashmir." What he said was consistent with the national mood. Similarly, he was absolutely right when he defended the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) and POTA. The enforcement of the AFSPA and POTA in Kashmir was the need of the time. Their application was needed to rein in the Pakistani-aided and abetted Kashmiri ultras, who had used violence as a tool to dismember India and achieve their sinister designs.
It was expected that the Kashmiri separatists and PDP leadership would denounce Farooq Abdullah for his candid remarks and it actually happened. Almost all the Kashmiri separatists and the so-called mainstream PDP leaders took no time in denouncing Farooq Abdullah and virtually dismissing him as an Indian agent and a power-hungry politician. So, what they said should not surprise anyone. It would be too much to expect from the Kashmiri separatists like Sayed Ali Shah Geelani and others in Kashmir that they would see reason and take pro-India and pro-anti-terror laws remarks kindly. They believe in anarchy and lawlessness because they see in the return of peace to Kashmir their own downfall and irrelevance. Hence, criticism of Farooq Abdullah.
However, to say all this is not to convey an impression that whatever the Kashmiri separatists and PDP said was incorrect. They were correct when they held NC leadership responsible for the sufferings of the people of Kashmir. It is the NC that is responsible for holding the people of Kashmir aloof from the national mainstream. It is the NC that is squarely responsible for the communalization of the Kashmir's polity. The NC leadership has at point of time after 1947 done anything to promote in Kashmir politics based on democratic and economic issues. In fact, ever since 1947, it has been raking up emotive and divisive issues in order to hold the people Kashmir aloof so that it could rule the state, exploit the sensitivities of the Kashmiri Muslims, and enrich itself at the cost of the people. The NC leadership is enjoying and common people are suffering.
One can cite here a number of instances to prove that the state has only witnessed chaos, anarchy, corruption, mal-administration, nepotism, strife, worst form of communalism, regional tensions, confrontation with New Delhi and all bad things whenever the NC ruled the state. Neither Sheikh Abdullah nor Farooq Abdullah ever did anything to address the real concerns of the people. They took recourse to undemocratic means to achieve power and retain control over it. They murdered democracy to the extent possible. In 1951, the Sheikh rigged the elections wholesale, thus leaving the people high and dry. Farooq Abdullah, too, followed in the footsteps of his father and rigged election in 1987 on a massive scale, thus preparing ground for the rise of violence and separatism in Kashmir. The late Abdul Gani Lone and Hizbul Mujahideen chief Sayed Salahuddin were the products of those undemocratic practices Sheikh Abdullah and Farooq Abdullah took recourse to in order to fulfill their insatiable lust for power and pelf. Farooq Abdullah had even gone to the extent of inciting the Kashmiri youth to go to Pakistan and undergo arms training to take on India and he had taken this extreme step to deflect the people's attention away from his own failures.
Omar Abdullah is also doing the same. Instead of focusing his attention on the issues facing the people or handing down a responsive, accountable, corruption-free and impartial administration, he is raking up emotive and divisive issues and indulging in reckless and dangerous activities. People want a fair administration and administration that delivers and caters to their basic needs, but he is indulging in India-bashing and Army-bashing and doing all that he could to bring back to the Valley hardened militants from Pakistan and PoK. People want Omar Abdullah to act as Chief minister and establish law and order, but he is doing all that he could to keep the pot boiling in Kashmir. The result has been what we have been witnessing in Kashmir since January 2009.
The moral of the story is that the Kashmir-based critics of Farooq Abdullah and NC are partly right and partly wrong. Will the NC leadership change its style of functioning? Will it stop indulging in rabble-rousing? Will it work for the welfare of the people? These are very, very difficult questions. |
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