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| Soz deserves kudos for his candid reflections | | Omar's Sectarian Politics | | Rustam
JAMMU, Oct 29: JKPCC president Prof Saif-ud-Din Soz deserves kudos for his candid reflections on Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and his style of functioning. He also deserves bouquets for his plain-speaking and rational and national stand on the AFSPA and issues relating to the crucial national security. He also needs to be appreciated for his timely intervention, as also for what he did to expose those who wanted to revoke the AFSPA to score political points in Kashmir. Indeed, he deserves bouquets for his spectacular and successful intervention that has saved the situation for the country as a whole.
But more than that, he deserves kudos for his very candid remarks on the kind of politics Omar Abdullah had been playing ever since he became Chief Minister with the help of the Congress party. No one had ever expected that any Kashmiri leader would ever say something about Omar Abdullah and his style of functioning he said yesterday while talking to correspondent of TIMES NOW, thus vindicating those who had been accusing Omar Abdullah and his NC for the same very reasons.
Talking to TIMES NOW correspondent, Prof Soz charged the NC with playing "sectarian politics and politics of sloganeering''. He also bemoaned saying that "there is no or very less focus on development" and added that "the government should focus towards development, instead of playing the (sectarian) politics''. (Sectarian politics means parochialism/one sect-centric politics.) Had anyone before him in Kashmir said what he said? No. Prof Soz would be remembered for years for the great service he rendered to the nation by hitting the nail on the head and thoroughly exposing the NC leadership. His' were not the off-the-cuff remarks; his responses and remarks were mature and measured.
After what Prof Soz said about Omar Abdullah and the kind of politics the NC had been indulging in, EARLY TIMES feels itself vindicated. This paper had been consistently opining since January 2009 that Omar Abdullah and other NC leaders had been indulging in "sectarian, as opposed to secular, politics to restore the ground their party lost after 1996 due to their various acts of omission and commission, as also due to their utter failure to deliver on any of the fronts". EARLY TIMES did not expose the politics, NC-style, just for the sake opposition. That was not its duty. Its fundamental duty as part of the fourth estate was to make the people aware of the grave evils which followed on what the NC leadership started doing in 2009 to retrieve its lost ground. It discharged its duty to the best of its ability without fear or favour and in the process suffered enormously and continues to face the wrath even today. The esteemed readers of EARLY TIMES are fully aware of everything.
This paper reflected on the politics, NC-style, because of three fundamental reasons. One was that the kind of politics Omar Abdullah took recourse to after assuming the office had helped the otherwise frustrated and defeated separatists . The other reason was that the type of politics Omar Abdullah played had been adversely impacted the state's polity and society as those at the helm allowed themselves to be guided by issues emotional and divisive and issues which had nothing to do with the obligations they were constitutionally and politically bound to discharge towards the people of the state and the nation as a whole.
In other words, this paper consistently reflected on the adverse impact of the politics, NC-style, on the state administration, society, polity, nation and inter-regional relations as well as the opportunities the Kashmir-based militants and separatists got to not only regroup themselves but also to do what they did in the 2010 summer in the Valley in general and Srinagar city and its adjoining areas in particular. ET consistently drew the attention of the Chief Minister and his men to the issues facing the people of the state, particularly the people of Jammu, which had been gripped by an extreme sense of dissatisfaction and discontent. In other words, EARLY TIMES focused on issues relating to governance, internal and external security and matters of regional importance and emphasized the fact that those responsible for providing people-friendly administration had left the people in the lurch and, instead, focused their attention on issues which Prof Soz rightly termed as "sectarian".
EARLT TIMES once again reassures its esteemed readers that it would continue to discharge its duties towards the people, the state and the nation fearlessly. ET also takes this opportunity to congratulate Prof Soz for the bold stand he took on the NC and the Chief Minister and his style of functioning and for his suggestion that "the government should focus towards development, instead of playing politics''. |
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