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| Hanging Of Guru Omar asks Delhi to look into wider picture | | | Neha | 8/23/2011 11:34:08 AM |
|  EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Aug 22: CM Omar Abdullah is, it appears, not happy with the union Government. The Reason: The Union Home Ministry has finally rejected clemency petition of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru. What exactly has he said about the reported decision of the Union Home Ministry on the clemency petition of Guru? He has, inter-alia, said: "The President of India, in her wisdom, has to decide on the mercy petition. As a Chief Minister, I have seen the situation over the past about two and a half year. I do have certain apprehensions as to what could happen if Guru is hanged and I have made the Centre aware from time to time. It is for the Centre to look into wider picture. My pure interest lies in maintaining peace in the state."
What does all this suggest? It suggests that he wants New Delhi to allow the dreaded Guru walk free. It also suggests an indirect threat to New Delhi. In other words, Omar Abdullah has indirectly told that New Delhi will be squarely responsible in case the hanging of Guru provokes explosions in Kashmir. It also suggests that Omar Abdullah and Syed Ali Shah Geelani & Co are on the same page as far as Guru is concerned. The only difference between the two is that while the latter has held out an open threat, the former has said the same thing in his own typical style. And, his suggestion that the Centre must look into wider picture should clinch the whole issue and once again establish that the Chief Minister takes Kashmir to mean a republic within a republic and that New Delhi and its actions are disliked in the Valley. His statement that "my pure interest lies in maintaining peace in the state" (read Kashmir) is ridiculous as it is questionable. You simply cannot subvert the rule of law in the name of so-called peace. Terrorist is a terrorists and he needs to be dealt with as such.
To be more precise, he would want New Delhi to treat the Kashmiri terrorists and separatists with kid gloves even if they attack the Indian State to further their pernicious agendas. But it is not unexpected. The Chief Minister has been making such statements from time to time to identify himself with the sentiment as represented by Geelani & Co. He is not the problem. The problem lies in New Delhi. It is New Delhi that has given him unbridled powers. Had New Delhi acted when Omar Abdullah questioned the very accession of the state to India, the latter would not have dared to make such controversial statements. New Delhi in general and the Congress party in particular are the real culprits. The nation is paying through its nose because of the bungling instinct of New Delhi and the parties like the Congress.
Paradoxically, neither the so-called ultra-nationalist BJP nor the Jammu and Kashmir Nation Panthers Party (JKNPP) has questioned the Chief Minister's stand on Guru. The silence of these political parties is quite intriguing. It has even made the concerned citizens believe that the "attitude of the BJP and the JKNPP is no different from that of the Chief Minister and Geelani & Co as far as Guru is concerned." It is for the BJP and the JKNPP to make their stand public on the issue concerning national security, territorial integrity and rule of law. They will have to explain away their respective stands on the issue.
As for the national mood, it wants New Delhi to bring Guru to justice without losing a single moment. There are cogent reasons to believe that the President of India would go by the decision of the rattled Congress-led UPA Government and reject out-of-hand the clemency petition of Guru who, along with other terrorists, attacked the Indian Parliament on December 13, 2001 - attack that culminated in the martyrdom of several security personnel. |
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