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| Omar, farooq on the same page | | Hanging Of Guru | | Rustam
JAMMU, Sept 3: National Conference president and Union Minister of Renewable Energy Farooq Abdullah has taken the big plunge and swung solidly behind his Chief Minister son Omar Abdullah. Three days ago, Omar shocked the nation and provoked a sort of furore in Jammu and elsewhere in the country, including the Union capital New Delhi, by his tweet about the death sentence of Afzal Guru. Guru was convicted by all the courts which tried him for his involvement in the 2001 Parliament attack case and sentenced him to death taking into consideration the nature of offence he, along with other terrorists, committed to destabilize the Indian polity and create anarchical conditions in the whole country.
Farooq Abdullah, who like his son holds a constitutional office and whose fundamental duty it is to defend the Indian Constitution and work with single-minded devotion for the unity and integrity of India by taking on and eradicating subversives, separatists and communalist, has not just defended his son to the hilt. He has also encouraged him to write such tweets and not keep things within his heart. He has, in addition, dumb-founded the nation by making a provocative statement that what Omar wrote was absolutely correct and that he should write whatever he wants to write so that the people know the truth.
What has gone wrong with the Prime Minister? Why is he maintaining a stoic silence at a time when the provocation is grave and when the father and the son have openly expressed views which have the potential of further communalizing and politicizing the already rather communalized and politicized Afzal Guru issue? Remember, Syed Ali Shah Geelani has held out an unambiguous threat that the hanging of Afzal Guru would prove very costly for India. The Prime Minister whose duty it is to defend the rule of law and rein in undesirable elements in the political establishment should have acted by now to produce the moral effect so that Farooq Abdullah and Omar Abdullah were not able to preach or air controversial views or so that they think thousand times before thinking in terms of wrecking the state and the national polity from within. That the Prime Minister has maintained silence at this critical juncture does create doubts in the minds of the aghast and outraged nation about his real intentions.
How could the Prime Minister, the executive head of the country, pursue the Congress line on Omar Abdullah and allow the likes of Farooq Abdullah to vitiate the political atmosphere in the country? It bears recalling that the Congress has not taken cognizance of what Omar Abdullah tweeted. It has dismissed the issue very lightly saying Omar Abdullah had simply exercised his democratic right and expressed his view. And, we should not be surprised over the dubious stand the Congress took on the issue of national import. The Congress has been doing so since decades. For, its concept of nation and state is different. Its only motto is appeasement and its battle-cry is give legitimacy to the politics of separatism, based on religious fanaticism. It has no ideology and it is a party which survives and thrives on negative politics, including the politics of despising the majority community.
The Congress, which is not answerable to the Parliament, can afford to come to the rescue of Omar Abdullah and Farooq Abdullah who are ardent believers in the concept of greater autonomy, bordering on virtual sovereignty. In fact, the Congress has been defending the NC to the hilt overlooking the grave crimes it has committed during the past two and a half years. But the Prime Minister cannot. He has to rise above party politics and take action against those -- howsoever powerful they may be -- who challenge the country as well as the rule of law in order to address a particular constituency and identify themselves with the likes of hardcore Pakistanis like Syed Ali Shah Geelani. Will the Prime Minister rise to the occasion and send a right message across the country that the Indian State would not tolerate anything non-sense and seditious. |
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