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| Syed Ali Shah Geelani stands surety for good conduct of boys beguiled by his speeches | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, June 25: It was quite interesting to watch Syed Ali Shah Geelani the Kashmiri separatist leader walk into a police station in Srinagar city and stand surety for three arrested boys. The boys had been picked up by the police for raising anti-national slogans and creating a law and order situation in the city. Geelani had to wait for pretty two long hours before the SHO of the concerned police station arrived back and asked the separatist leader politely to furnish a personal surety bond for the good conduct of the arrested boys in the future. Obliging the police, Geelani furnished the personal surety bond and the police released the three boys.
It is for the first time in the over two decade long history of violence in the state that any separatist leader has stood personal guarantee for the 'good conduct of anyone arrested for creating a law and order situation in the Valley.' It is baffling to understand how the senior separatist leader can on the one hand continue to make inflammatory speeches against the country, its institutions including the army, the paramilitary forces and the state police and on the other hand walk into police stations to get boys released who influenced by his doctrine of hate India get caught up in the law and order situation.
Kashmir has always been a recipe book for cooking up political contradictions and the latest one by none other than the old man of separatist politics is no exception to that general rule. It had been the standard practice for the mainstream politicians like the late Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah to swear by the accession when in power and to ask for plebiscite when out of it. Isn't it ironical that the same tall Kashmiri leader should stand by India's secular, pluralistic, non-violent credentials and then suddenly deliver a speech at R.S. Pura in 1953 trashing the accession, doubting secularism and even questioning his own decision to go with India and not Pakistan that was created because the sub-continent was divided on the basis of the two nation theory in 1947.
The late Sheikh had many contradictions, He aligned with the Congress after signing the historic Indira-Abdullah accord in 1975 and within just two years in 1977 he called the Congress party and its leaders "Gandi Nali Kay Keeday." He would leave no stone unturned praising the secularistic credentials of late Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and his daughter when called upon to attend official or social functions outside the Valley.
Once back in Srinagar, a sudden change would come upon him. From the balcony of the NC headquarters in downtown Srinagar, the Sheikh would remind Delhi of 'broken promises and breached trusts'. That was the standard formula used by the NC founder to win votes in rural Kashmir. Once comfortable after winning most assembly seats in the Muslim majority Valley by his anti-New Delhi stance, the Sheikh would air dash to Delhi, convince Indira Gandhi of his loyalty and also impress upon her the longstanding friendship between the Abdullahs and the Nehru Parivar and get into the driving seat.
It is undoubtedly the confusion created by the founder of the NC about the state's accession with India in the minds of the Kashmiri people that exploded in the form of militant violence in 1989 when his son and the then chief minister, Dr. Farooq Abdullah lost grip on the hearts and minds of the people of Valley.
The forces channelized by the NC leadership for their vote bank through anti-India propaganda erupted with violent calls for separatism once the NC's magic of vote bank politics waned.
Syed Ali Geelani is too old to harbor any political ambitions. He has travelled so far away from the road that leads to New Delhi that it is futile to even think of any future electoral ambition for the old man. And yet, the politics of contradiction which the senior separatist leader closely followed during the days the late Sheikh ruled the hearts and minds of Kashmiris has left an indelible mark on his mind. Otherwise, a wise old politician like Geelani would not stoke anti-India passions on the streets during the day and then walk into police stations in the evenings to stand personal surety for responsible behavior by the same boys beguiled by his rhetoric. |
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