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| Mr Kamaal, the so-called Delhi Agreement was also not signed | | Congress The Problem | | Rustam
JAMMU, Nov 3: "Something is fundamentally wrong with the NC additional general secretary and chief spokesperson Sheikh Mustafa Kamaal. He is making statements which indicate his utter disregard for facts. He has turned so unreasonable and ungrateful that he is abusing the Congress leadership and the Congress party almost everyday. The Congress, according to him, is the problem. He is abusing the Congress and, at the same time, defending alliance with it saying the NC entered into an alliance with the Congress in the interest of the people. It also seems that Kamaal, like many other NC leaders, has gone totally frustrated and clueless. His statements do make even the naive to conclude that the NC additional general secretary had, like the Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh, lost his balance of mind and that he is making statements which are not only provocative and irritating but which also show that he is highly biased towards the Congress and New Delhi and that he is a communalist of communalists. The time has come for the Congress party to break all ties with the NC which has let loose a vilification Campaign against our party president Prof Saif-ud-Din Soz, the Congress party and New Delhi. It would be an affront to our self-respect if the Congress high command condones the NC's crimes and sins. The NC needs to be reprimanded and shown the place it rightfully deserves".
This is not the opinion of this correspondent. This was the opinion of almost all the Congress leaders whom this correspondent interviewed today to ascertain their views on what Kamaal had said during the last few days and what they were thinking about him, the NC and the alliance between it and the Congress. All of them were extremely angry with and highly critical of Kamaal, and even chief minister Omar Abdullah, and everyone suggested that "it would be a crime against god and man if our high command continues to direct us to maintain cool and swallow humiliations and taunts in the name of coalition dharma". "Our patience has ended; we will not tolerate any insult and any taunt any longer; what we immediately want is the fall of the Omar Abdullah government, as it has failed to deliver on any front and as it has now started treading a path that would ultimately jeopardize the nation's interests as well as the interests of the people and the Congress party" was their major refrain. One can feel their pain, agony and disgust.
Significantly, one of the senior Congress leaders asked three questions. One, "if the Congress is a problem, then what is it that makes the Abdullah family to maintain political ties with the problematic Congress?" He himself answered the question and said that "the Abdullah family is dishonest, unscrupulous and power-hungry" and that "it is so shameless that it pours venom on the Congress everyday and, at the same time, wants it to extend its unstinted support to it so that it could ride roughshod and govern the state in the manner it likes". "The Abdullahs are like deadly snakes who are biting us on a daily basis," he also bemoaned and added that "we are suffering because of our insensitive and irresponsible high command".
Two, "if the 1975 accord was not signed by Sheikh Abdullah, then what was it that made him occupy the chief minister's chair under the same accord?" His answer was that the "sheikh's man Mirza Afzal Beg had negotiated with the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's emissary G Parthasarthy the agreement" and that "it was approved and implemented in letter and spirit only after the Sheikh gave his consent. The accord was to be accepted or rejected in full. The Sheikh accepted the office after compromising his ideology; in fact, he had no ideology; his only ideology, like the ideology of Farooq Abdullah and Omar Abdullah, was power and pelf".
Three, "where is the signed 1952 Delhi Agreement, Kamaal, Omar and Farooq talk about day in and day out? He himself answered and said that "what the Abdullahs and others in the NC describe as Delhi Agreement was nothing but a statement made by Jawaharlal Nehru and the Sheikh in the Lok Sabha and the state Constituent-cum-Legislative Assembly" and that the "likes of Kamaal are only distorting and murdering history in order to hoodwink and mislead the Kashmiri Muslims and hide their own sins and acts of omission and commission". The Congress leader was absolutely right when he exposed Kamaal and put things in perspective not on the basis of heresy but on the basis of historical facts.
This is the situation that has emerged in the aftermath of the "vilification campaign" unleashed by Mustafa Kamaal, as also in the wake of the Omar Abdullah's demand seeking revocation of the AFSPA and demilitarization. It is difficult to say if the NC-Congress alliance would remain intact. If the mood of the local Congress leadership is any indication, then it can be said without any hesitation that the coalition is on the verge of collapse. |
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