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| NC-Congress coalition heading towards disaster? | | Traitors' & 'Bluffers' | | Neha
JAMMU, Nov 21: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's uncle and NC president Farooq Abdullah's brother, Mustafa Kamaal, is not speaking much these days. He was removed from the posts - general secretary and spokesperson -- he held in the party for some 30-odd days because he had been spitting on the Congress and the Congress leadership. He was removed by his brother. There is a view that the NC president took this extreme action against his brother at the behest of the AICC. It is also believed that had Farooq Abdullah not sacrificed his brother, Omar Abdullah would have been removed from the office he held in the government. It is difficult to say whether or not these are speculations or hard facts, but one can surely say that Mustafa was unceremoniously removed for political reasons. Obviously, he was removed to mollify the local Congress leadership and the AICC (in this case Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi) so that the NC-Congress coalition remained intact and Omar Abdullah ruled the roost.
It is quite significant to note that while the NC has stopped spewing venom on the Congress leadership, some very important JKPCC functionaries have unleashed a relentless campaign against the NC. Take, for example, what one of JKPCC vice-presidents and general secretaries said on Saturday and Sunday, respectively. On Saturday day, the JKPCC vice-president contemptuously dismissed the NC as a party of "traitors" and threatened that "the double-standards of the NC will be exposed". This vice-president is a very close lieutenant of the JKPCC president. His message was loud and clear. His message was that there is no love lost between the Congress and the NC. He sent his message to the NC from Srinagar.
As if all this was not enough to annoy, ridicule and despise the NC leadership, one of the JKPCC general secretaries also took on the NC and condemned it in downright language. He on Sunday in New Delhi not only asked the AICC president to "undertake a performance review of the NC-Congress coalition government", but also used a very strong language against the NC and the NC leadership. Dismissing the NC as a party of those who "believe in soft-separatism", he said, "the security and integrity of the state is in peril and security structures have been weakened by the political rhetoric of NC leaders". "The situation today demands to take such a review, before it is too late…Not only security structures, but situation on all fronts, be that return of Kashmiri Pandits, human rights and political reconciliation, depict poor health of the state," he said while speaking at a function organized by the Lawyers Cell of Congress party to commemorate birth anniversary of late Indira Gandhi. He went on to say that "double-speak is being used (by the NC) to cover up failures and incompetence" and bemoaned saying that "Kashmir is at the cross-roads with its demographic profile shattered by the ethnic (read religious) cleansing of Kashmiri Pandits"; that the "society is in (a) shambles and continues to be in agony"; and that "unemployment, rampant corruption and helplessness (have) brought the state to the brink of destruction".
He did not just stop here. He further said: it was the opportune time for the "party high command to put an end to the attempts of bluff and befooling of people and amateurish governance by replacing the head of government" (read Omar Abdullah) and suggested that "Congress party should claim the post of chief minister and nominate an astute, honest, competent and ideologically straightforward person for the post without any further delay".
This shows that moves are afoot to create an environment which would dislodge Omar Abdullah and replace him with some Congress leader. This is significant. But what is far more significant is the dismissal of the NC as a party of "traitors", "bluffers", "soft separatists" and as a party that has weakened the "security structures". These epithets and invectives have not been used for the NC by ordinary Congress workers. These have been used publicly by senior party functionaries. It would be wrong to say that these Congress functionaries have denounced the NC on their own. They have denounced the NC as per a strategy evolved to ensure the collapse of the Omar Abdullah-led government and put in a place a new government headed by some non-NC man. The fact that the JKPCC vice-president has not been censured for what he said and that what he said was not consistent with several media reports to the effect that the Local Congressmen had been directed not to make any comment against the NC and the NC leadership should leave none in any doubt that efforts are underway to dislodge the NC. It would be interesting to watch what the NC does in reaction. |
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