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| March 23, 1987: New Delhi committed a tactical mistake | | `MUF would have crushed anti-national elements ruthlessly’ | |
Flash back
Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 22: The Assembly elections were held on March 23 in 1987. People, by and large, believe the `rigged elections’ opened a new chapter in Kashmir history. Twenty-four years down the line, a question haunts the saner elements in the state. Had Muslim United Front (MUF) formed the government, what would have the amalgam done?
There is no denying the fact that most of the leaders of the MUF had separatist tendencies. But after taking over the government they would have ruthlessly crushed the “anti-national” elements like other governments.
The JKLF leaders like Sheikh Abdul Hamid and Malik Muhammad Yasin and others were actively campaigning for the MUF. They were arrested after elections by the National Conference government. Their fate would not be any different had MUF formed the government, believe political experts.
When Sher-e-Kashmir assumed office of the emergency administrator in 1947, he got some of his staunch supporters arrested. Noor Muhammad Sofi, a baker from Koker Bazar area whose mere presence would scare Sheikh’s opponents had to spend around three months in jail during his beloved leader’s rule. He had dared to seek an explanation from his leader. Some others met a similar fate.
The MUF evoked massive support by feeding `fairy tales’ to the gullible people. “We would pass a resolution in the assembly to revoke accession”, some people were told. This is exactly what Jama’t-e-Islami had been telling the people to justify their participation in elections. The Jama’t-e-Islami contested elections when Sher-e-Kashmir called for poll boycott. “We would raise the Kashmir issue on the floor of the house”, they would tell the people. History is witness to the fact that the Jama’t legislators never raised the issue. Syed Ali Geelani once admitted that the National Conference MLAs would raise a hue and cry in the house whenever he stood up to speak.
According to political experts, keeping the MUF out of power was a tactical mistake by New Delhi. Had MUF formed the government, the situation would have been different today”, they opine.
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