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| Farooq discriminates between Omar & Kamaal | | Different Yardsticks | | Rustam
jammu, Nov 11: The JKPCC president Prof Saif-ud-Din Soz's November 9 Srinagar startling revelation that AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi was "not happy with the governance of the state" yesterday evoked very sharp reaction from Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and his uncle and party additional general secretary and chief spokesperson Sheikh Mustafa Kamaal. Questioning the very authority of Prof Soz, Omar Abdullah said "I don't know whether Soz sahab is authorised to speak on behalf of Rahul Gandhi, most certainly I am not…Rahul has never said anything about the issues of governance in the state. If Rahul has certain feelings regarding governance he will make them known to me. All I can say is that in all the years that I have known Rahul, he has not said anything regarding the way in which the governance has been functioning here. If Rahul has spoken to Soz sahab and Soz sahab is authorised to speak on Rahul's behalf then I really have nothing more to say about that". Omar Abdullah conveniently forgot that Prof Soz was the JKPCC president who enjoys the mandate and who knows much more as compared to Omar Abdullah of the National Conference. In a way, Omar Abdullah insulted Prof Soz without realizing that he was interfering in the Congress party's internal matters.
As for Kamaal, he also reportedly snubbed Prof Soz for the revelation that he made while talking to a local daily. The EARLY TIMES today reported like this: "Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) this evening mailed one of Dr Mustafa Kamaal's interviews, purportedly given to Kashmir News Agency, with a note of caution to All India Congress Committee (AICC). In an interview circulated today, Kamaal is quoted to have rebuffed JKPCC chief Prof Saif-ud-Din Soz's revelation that the AICC general secretary (Rahul Gandhi) had lately expressed his 'unhappiness' over the quality of governance in Omar Abdullah-led government in Jammu and Kashmir". The report shows that there was no fundamental difference between what Omar Abdullah said and what Kamaal said while reacting to the Prof Soz, startling disclosure. Omar Abdullah snubbed Prof Soz saying he didn't know if the latter had been authorized to speak on the issue. Kamaal also snubbed Prof Soz for the same reason. Prof Soz's snubbing was, in fact, the AICC's snubbing.
Similarly, there was no fundamental difference between what Kamaal had been consistently saying about the Army since October 25, when at least three militant-related incidents took place across the Valley, including grenade attacks in the heart of Srinagar, and what Omar Abdullah said about the Army yesterday. Kamaal directly charged the Army with engineering the grenade attacks in order to scuttle the Chief Minister's move on the AFSPA and Omar crossed the Lakshman Rekha by snubbing the Army saying he would not entertain "no" from the Army as far as the revocation of this Act was concerned. What Kamaal and Omar said could be legitimately construed as a revolt against the Army, an unpardonable act considering the fact that the institution of Army is an integral part of sovereign India. You cannot think of the institution of the state, sans Army.
As was expected, the AICC took cognizance of the latest developments in the state, including the Chief Minister's attack on the Army, as also their attack on Prof Soz, coupled with a caution to the AICC. Convinced that his brother had queered the National Conference's pitch, the party president and Union Minister for Renewable Energy Farooq Abdullah swung into action and asked his brother to resign from all the positions he held in the party. He did not sack him; he only asked him to quit not the party but the positions of additional general secretary and chief spokesperson saying his statements were against the cardinal principles of coalition dharma. Significantly, he did not apply the same yardstick to his son, Omar Abdullah. On the contrary, he overlooked the fact that what his son had said was nothing but a blistering attack on the Congress party which is represented in the state by Prof Soz. He dumped his brother only to help out his son, who has been feeling the heat for quite sometime now and who is now being looked down upon by the bulk of local Congress leadership.
If Farooq Abdullah feels that he has been able to save the situation by dumping his brother, then it can be said that he is not aware of the ground realities in the state. One of the ground realities is that the local Congress leadership has no love lost for his son. Similarly, if Farooq Abdullah feels that his action against his brother would reform him, then it can be safely said that he is overlooking the realities in the state. Kamaal is by temperament and conviction anti-Congress, anti-Army, and even anti-India and, hence, he would sooner than later spit on the Congress and the Army. In any case, Farooq Abdullah has indicated his bias in favour of his son and against his brother for purely personal and political reasons and the people do understand it. |
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