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STARK REALITY
RUSTAM
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Jan 1: NC MLA, Chief Minister’s uncle and former Cabinet Minister Mustafa Kamal has done it again. He has attacked JKPCC chief Prof Saif-ud-Din Soz and he has ridiculed the Congress with whose support NC is ruling the state.
His attack on the JKPCC chief is personal and his is a calibrated attack on the Congress party. Paradoxically, he also heads Ethics Committee of the J&K Assembly. It is not for the first time that he has violated the cardinal principles of coalition dharma and painted Soz and Congress black, unscrupulous, unprincipled and treacherous.
He has been abusing and ridiculing JKPCC chief and the Congress since the installation of the NC-congress coalition government. Yesterday, Mustafa Kamal not only accused Soz of “having personal grudge against NC” but also described the “alliance with the Congress as a compulsion.” He, in addition, overruled the possibility of the NC “forming government in the state with the Congress party in future.”
His grudge against Soz was that “he wants to dislodge” NC-led government despite the fact that “he has been enjoying political status due to Late Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah and the NC.” “Soz is the party president due to the patronage of New Delhi, he has also said. If it is not a personal attack on the JKPCC, then what it is?
And, his grudge against the Congress was that it “has always cheated NC in the past” and “it can repeat the history again.” “Formation of the government with the Congress was a compulsion to save the people from Governor’s rule” and this won’t happen in future.” This – apart from his charge that the Congress has always cheated the NC -- was the upshot of his whole argument against the party that handed over the state power to the NC on a platter in 1947, 1975 and again in 2009 much to the chagrin of the people of Jammu and Ladakh and local Congress leadership.
It would be only appropriate to point out here that had the Congress not backed NC in 1947, 1975 and 2009, the latter would not have tasted political power. It’s true that the Congress on occasions changed its attitude towards NC and ensured collapse of NC-led government in the state in 1953 and 1977. Congress being a national party had to adopt a tough stand taking into consideration the larger national interest.
Fact remains that Congress has time and again pinned its faith in NC whose credentials have always been doubtful for having resorted to politics of triple-speak and blackmail. It is no more a secret that the state has always witnessed uncertainty, instability, anti-India troubles in Kashmir, inter-regional tensions and extreme form of tensions between the state and New Delhi.
Present dispensation has done all that it could to unsettle settled things, notwithstanding Congress being part of the government. In fact, association of the Congress with NC has also lowered position of the former in the eyes of the people, besides eroding its support-base not only in Kashmir but in Jammu province as well.
NC has undoubtedly used its position to weaken Congress and consolidate its own constituency. However, the question is: Is Mustafa Kamal attacking JKPCC chief and the Congress on his own or he is indulging in the Soz and Congress-bashing as per strategy? Party president Farooq Abdullah’s did counsel Mustafa Kamal on the birth anniversary of Sheikh Abdullah but to no avail.
Similarly, the question is: what is it that is barring the Congress from coming out of the government? No party could have any truck with such parties which enjoy power with the help of a particular party and condemn it in downright language at the same time. Congress leadership has only made common people believe that there is something fundamentally wrong with it. The Congress’ politics is indeed a strange kind of politics. |
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