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| Dr Farooq Abdullah towing Kamal's line? | | NC top leadership engages in self-contradiction | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Nov 28: As if the confusion already generated by the ousted NC spokesman Mustafa Kamal was not enough, union minister and NC president, Dr. Farooq Abdullah has started towing the line of his younger brother.
Dr. Abdullah told a public meeting in Kathua district that the army is not the master and it is the chief minister and his son Omar Abdullah who is the real master in the state. Strange that the elder Abdullah should be talking in exactly the same language for which he criticized and finally removed his younger brother from the NC chief spokesman's post.
It seems that the NC and its leaders have decided to lead the state from one confusion to the other. Sometimes the Chief Minister says he shall have the AFSPA revoked come what may and then suddenly he decides that the best way forward is to amend the criminal procedure code to accommodate and address the fears of the army on account of Omar's proposal to have the AFSPA revoked from some areas of the State. What exactly is up the sleeves of the NC leaders? It should not be difficult to understand. Having led the State from one administrative and governance deficit to the other, the NC has seriously started raking up issues those could have an emotional quotient for the people in the Valley. The NC appears to be back to its old time-tested politics of playing up emotional issues those can camouflage the otherwise crucial issues of governance like development, healthcare, employment etc.
Having put themselves in direct confrontation with the army with respect to the proposal to partially revoke the AFSPA, the NC leaders are now playing up to a political game plan that might have worked in the past but cannot work in 2011.
The worst part of the flawed political strategy is that the NC leaders have been issuing self contradictory statements. Sometimes they want the AFSPA revoked; sometimes they want the criminal procedure code amended. Other times they blame the army for scuttling the proposal for AFSPA revocation and then suddenly they claim to be protecting the operational capacities of the army. It is confusion worst confounded. Small wonder that the NC would be finally the loser of its own stratagem of grandstanding that cannot be of any use in a politically sensitive state like J&K. |
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