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| To be inhospitable is NC's culture | | | It was day's news. Senior National Conference leaders, including ministers, had to remain standing while the party President,Farooq Abdullah, and the Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah, addressed newsmen after the end of the working committee meeting in Jammu on Saturday. If Ministers and other senior party leaders kept on their toes it was not the outcome of their respect for the party President and the Chief Minister. If they continued to remain standing it was not the result of their anger against the NC leadership. They were not protesting against anything because they had nothing to protest against when even the less deserving leaders had been inducted in the council of ministers and those deserving elected to the Rajya Sabha or made provincial presidents. They had to keep on standing for a long period because there were no chairs reserved for them. No doubt some of the newsmen invited some of the ministers to share the seats with them the ministers refused. They had fears that if they shared seats with the newsmen they would be labeled as the agents of the fourth estate. They preferred to keep on heir feet which they felt was the only way to demonstrate and display their loyalty to the Party Chief and the Chief Minister. They had to exhibit their loyalty because they are not sure whether they would be retained in the council of ministers or not after Chief Minister had dropped a hint that he would reshuffle the cabinet after the budget session of the state Legislature and may drop those whose performance has not been up to the mark.
Neither the Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah, nor the NC President, Farooq Abdullah, was uneasy over the discomfort of the ministers and other party leaders who had to suffer while remaining on their feet more accurately than the security personnel that had ringed the party headquarters. It is quite evident. Had the father and the son, if not the Holy Ghost, felt uncomfortable with the discomfort of the senior party leaders they would have asked the managers to arrange chairs for the ministers. Had they been upset over the situation they would have pulled up the managers for the mismanagement. They did nothing. Possibly the two wanted to test the patience of the ministers and legislators whose monthly emoluments were being hiked shortly.Faooq and Omar,possibly,wanted to convey to the party workers that if the party President and the Chief Minister did not bother and care about the ministers and other senior party leaders the workers need not expect any favour from them.
Those who have been watching the ups and downs of the the 73-year old National Conference form a close range treat the Saturday's incident as part of the party's culture. It has been usually seen that the National Conference leadership is people friendly, worker friendly, whenever it is out of power. Whenever it is out of power it is quite friendly with the people connected with the fourth estate. And whenever it is in power its leaders are inaccessible not only to common people but to those connected with the print and the electronic media. Out of power even a senior party leader, including former Chief Ministers and ministers, are so nice that they pick up the receiver themselves whenever the phone rings in their residences. Once in power even the junior ministers are inaccessible to people and usually the phone calls are answered by their private secretaries or servants who keep on dodging the callers with cooked up tales on ministers’ engagements. In power the NC leaders, during party functions and gettogethers, though they are quite rare when compared to the Congress and the PDP,are not as hospitable as the Muftis or Kars are. It is time for the NC leadership to have some sort of introspection so that Saturday's incident is not repeated. The party leadership and those occupying ministerial chairs need to learn rudiments of hospitality from Mufti Sayeed,Ghulam Rasool Kar,Harsh Dev Singh,Ajay Sadhotra and a few others. It will be a healthy change if the managers of the press meet are pulled up or debarred from acting as managers of such functions in future.(eom)
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