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| Abdullahs' dangerous duplicity at work | | NC Leadership | | Neha
JAMMU, Dec 4: The duplicity is glaringly manifest in the positions taken by CM Omar Abdullah and NC president Union Minister Farooq Abdullah in recent times, especially when the intra-family and intra-party feuds have popped up into the public arena and the concerted campaign by the ruling NC against AFPSA and Army is on. Omar wants the Centre and the people at large in rest of India to believe that his uncle Mustafa Kamaal has gone berserk due to power ambitions and for these reasons is taking a public line which is radical, communal and pro-separatist. At the same, time Omar wants all of us to believe that his pro-separatist, pro-Geelani policies and attack on AFPSA is essentially a pro-people, nationalist and patriotic in content. He wants the Centre to realize his indispensability as the only nationalist alternative available and, at the same time, wants the separatist constituency to appreciate his relentless commitment in loosening and undermining the sovereignty of India over Jammu and Kashmir.
His father Farooq Abdullah is carrying on with this brazen duplicity in New Delhi. In a recent interview, he tried to bring to the notice of the public the failures of the Army and the entire security establishment. "What do they (Army) handle? If they are able to handle, how the hell do these terrorists come… How are they coming in if they are able to handle the… how do they enter?" He expands the same theme to put the blame on the entire system when asked to comment about the successful bids of infiltration. "It is the failure of the entire system. It is the failure of the intelligence. We have internal intelligence, we have external intelligence. There is a failure somewhere if they are coming in." In these expositions one thing is glaring. He is not talking about past. He is talking about the present, about continuing intelligence failures, coming in of terrorist and so on and so forth. He is not talking about improvement of the situation on the ground. And, yet, at the same time, he is talking about the curtailment of the role of Army and removal of AFPSA.
The whole rationalization takes a dangerous turn when the Abdullahs seek to connect their position on AFSPA with the people's mistrust, and freedom. "I think the time has come when people should be trusted…Time has come when people should be given space to breathe." He alludes about the mistrust of Kashmiris, not about terrorist regimes operating in the valley; not about the drug and counterfeit currency cartels which have taken control of the ever enlarging segments of the society; or the campaigns of radicalization. The NC leaders never talk about bitter realities which are a direct result of terrorism. The NC leadership, like the types of Arundhati Roy, link army's successful role not with the freedoms available to the people in the state despite a relentless campaign to destroy them by none other than the separatists of various hues and strands. They link Army with perhaps the type of secret security cells of Hitler. If it would not have been so then removal of AFSPA would never have been equated to providing of breathing space to people by NC leadership. The freedoms available to the people in Kashmir have been primarily due to the sacrifices of the security establishment, particularly the role of Army.
The NC leaders as well as their patrons in New Delhi have not till now recognized the fragility of the situation on the ground where a small development in Pakistan may lead to catastrophic deterioration of situation in those areas in Kashmir valley where the Abdullahs claim the situation has improved.
The contradiction of the stand is very simple and yet very profound. The NC accepts the reality of continuing infiltration and cross-border movement of terrorists. Yet the NC does not see its link with the internal situation. When it says internal situation is better it actually is commending the Army's role and the relevance of AFSPA and not the other way round, particularly when NC has totally failed to mobilize political opinion against the menace separatism in the state. The Army cannot be Satan and the saint in the same breath. But dangerous duplicity is at work on the ground. We have all to beware of it. |
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