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| Rahul should have visited land of refugees and shared their agony | | Jammu Not Uttar Pradesh | | STARK REALITY
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EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, May 14: AICC general secretary and the Congress’s prime ministerial candidate Rahul Gandhi, who has failed to click because he doesn’t have the leadership qualities, played a drama of sorts in Bhata-Parsaul in Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, on May 12 to draw political mileage out of the land acquisition controversy that created a serious law and order problem in the area with the aggrieved farmers and brutal police force clashing with each other and leading to the death of four persons. Rahul Gandhi enacted what Chief Minister Mayawati described as a “drama” to expand the Congress constituency in Uttar Pradesh. It is, however, a different matter that the government of Mayawati swung into action and arrested Rahul Gandhi in the midnight. Rahul Gandhi shamed himself and the Congress party the same night by seeking bail, which was granted. His action exposed Gandhi and provided an opportunity to the opposition to beat him and the Congress party mercilessly from right and left. The Samajwadi leader Azam Khan ridiculed him and his action and even went to the extent of saying that a man who could not spend even one night in police custody was thinking in terms of becoming prime minister. It needs to be noted that whatever happened in Greater Noida was the fall-out of the failure of the Congress-led UPA Government to adopt any legislation on land acquisition and, yet, Rahul Gandhi sought to politicize the whole issue.
But the question to be asked is: Why did Rahul Gandhi go to Bhata-Parsaul and why has he not visited what could be termed as a land of refugees, Jammu, which also houses thousands and thousands of unemployed youth, unemployed technocrats who have been holding peaceful demonstrations since years to register their protest against the indifferent attitude of the state the government towards them and facing the official wrath almost everyday? The answer is simple and straight and the answer is that he, like all others in Delhi, doesn’t consider the neglected people of Jammu, including the over 1.5 million refugees, part and parcel of the Indian society; that he, like all others in Delhi, considers Kashmir and its people, barring the Kashmiri Hindus, the sole factor in the state; that, he, like all others in Delhi, doesn’t consider Jammu and Kashmir as an integral part of India in the real sense of the term; that, he, like all others in Delhi, would want Kashmiri leadership to exercise absolute rights, including the right to deny the people of Jammu province, without any exception, what they legitimately deserve; and that he, like all others in Delhi’s corridors of power, considers Uttar Pradesh as a state political control over which would enable him and the Congress party to consolidate their hold over the New Delhi’s South and North Blocks. This is the only plausible answer.
Had Rahul Gandhi considered the people of Jammu province, including the refugees from West Pakistan who do not enjoy citizenship rights even after 63 years of independence, refugees from Pakistan-occupied-Jammu and Kashmir and refugees from Kashmir, as human beings, he would have certainly visited Jammu and shared the agony of the people this province houses. That he did not visit Jammu even once to take stock of the conditions under which the people of Jammu, including refugees, have been living since decades should clinch the whole issue and establish that he has no interest whatever in the human problem that has gripped Jammu and that he believes only in that kind of politicking that helps him expand and consolidate his constituency elsewhere in the country. That he would not visit Jammu to share the agony of the refugees even at that point in time when the police would mercilessly beat up the refugees, including women, children and aged men should further indicate his indifferent attitude towards the human problem. Similarly, he never came to Jammu to share the agony of the unemployed youth in the Jammu province. On the other hand, one would find Rahul Gandhi giving unqualified support to the National Conference-led coalition government on each an every issue.
This is Rahul Gandhi and the type of politics he indulges in. It’s no wonder then that the Congress is becoming irrelevant by the day. The results of the just-concluded assembly elections in five states of West Bengal, Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry and by-elections in Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Uttar Pradesh should leave no one in any doubt that the Congress is losing the people’s support.
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