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| Questionable Jammu Leadership Omar again ups his ante against India, advocates political solution | | | Rustam | 9/6/2011 1:47:36 AM |
| EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Sept 5: The National Conference contested assembly elections in 2008 hoping that it would sweep the polls like it swept the polls in 1996. But it did not happen. It could capture only 28 seats. The NC had captured 28 seats out of a total of 87 seats in 2002 as well. The NC got the minimum number of votes both in 2002 and 2008. The PDP had captured more seats in 2008 as compared to the NC. The PDP had captured 21 seats. The performance of the NC both in 2002 and 2008 established beyond any shadow of doubt that it had lost its popularity and that even the people of Kashmir didn't repose the kind of confidence that they reposed in 1996, when the party captured more than 50 seats on its own, notwithstanding the fact that its vote share was not impressive. And, still the owners of the NC like Chief Minister Omar Abdullah describe their party as the most important factor in the state's political situation saying it represents the general will of the people.
Omar Abdullah, like his grandfather and father and extremists like Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Yasin Malik, has been repeatedly saying that Jammu and Kashmir is a political issue that needs a political solution. He reiterated his stand yesterday as well and asserted that the "solution to political issue of Jammu and Kashmir is on the anvil". "The solution to political issue of Jammu and Kashmir is on the anvil," Omar said after laying the foundation stone of mega tourist circuit Naagar Nagar at Kathi Darwaza in downtown Srinagar. "The political leadership of all shades of opinion need to join hands and contribute positively and sincerely in this pursuit," he also said. He, in addition, said: "He would continue to advocate that the basic political issues of the state cannot be resolved by economic measures or progress on development front. The successful tourism season, visiting of over six lakh visitors and an equal number of Amarnath pilgrims this year, has not solved the political problem even as it has largely helped economic betterment of the people in general".
Omar Abdullah needs to explain as to what exactly he meant by political problem. Why should he explain the meaning of what he calls political problem? He should explain the meaning in order to clear all the doubts and inform the nation as to what for he stands. Such an explanation has become imperative considering the fact that Kashmir has been ruling the state and exploiting the people of Jammu and Ladakh since 1947, when the state acceded to India strictly in accordance with the law on the subject.
It needs to noted that the Kashmiri leadership has established in the state a political system that is of the Kashmiri Muslims, by the Kashmiri Muslims and for the Kashmiri Muslims - a political system that treats the people of Jammu province and Ladakh region as subjects, and not citizens, whose life is not one of political and economic aspirations or who are entitled to just crumbs. It also needs to be underlined that it is Kashmir and the people of Kashmir, barring the hounded out Kashmiri Hindus, who have destroyed Jammu politically, economically, culturally and socially and who have been exploiting, browbeating and emotionally blackmailing New Delhi to extract concession after concession with New Delhi not disappointing the Kashmiri leadership.
Omar Abdullah must explain what he means by political problem taking into account two fundamental factors. One is that Kashmir is ruling over the state and that all the Chief Ministers of the state till date have been ethnically Kashmiris - all belonging to a particular religious sect. The other is that Kashmir ruined, and continues to ruin, Jammu province in every respect. Any failure on the part of Omar Abdullah to explain as to what exactly he means by political problem would surely make the people conclude that he is just a rabble-rouser who is desperate to retain control over his communal constituency and that he, like Mohammad Ali Jinnah, is an ardent believer in the concept of the pernicious two-nation theory that led to the communal partition of Indian in August 1947 and created Pakistan.
What Omar Abdullah says does cause alarm. But what is more worrisome is the indifferent attitude of the Jammu leadership to what Omar Abdullah says and does to unsettle things in the state, as also to communalise the state polity. |
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