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| Mustafa's sermons are two faces of same coin? | | | Though Dr Mustafa Kamaal,brother of Dr Farooq Abdulah,has lost the coveted post of Additional General secretary of the National Conference and its spokesman he has not lost his right to sermonise on issues that are related to the Governance in the state and to the tie-up between the National Conference and the Congress.He is at it again,his usual talent for raking up one controversy or the other.The latest being his commitment to be at war with the centre and the Congress.He has said that the war will continue till greater autonomy was restored to the state of Jammu and Kashmir.His war against the centre will continue till whatever injustice was done to the people of the state after 1953 was undone or rectified.Neither New Delhi nor the Congress needed to get unnerved by Kamaal's war-cry but what is a matter of concern for the Congress led UPA Government is Dr Kamaal's claim that "it is the National Conference war against the Centre and the Congress."The Government of India has the moral right to know from the NC President,Dr Farooq Abdullah,who is also a ministerial colleague of Manmohan Singh,whether Sheikh Kamaal is still in a position to speak on behalf of the party that shares power with the Congress in Jammu and Kashmir.
Mark the irony of political machinations.While Dr Kamaal has been firing one salvo after the other against the centre and the Congress his nephew,Omar Abdullah,and his brother,Dr Farooq Abdullah,have been seen doing all tricks on the ring to sustain the ruling coalition in Jammu and Kashmir and to be by the right side of those who matter in the Union Government and the Congress High Command.Thus Dr Kamaal's latest statement gives rise to two questions. Has the NC leadership left it to Sheikh Kamaal to air views and opinions that could help the party in regaining its ground that it had lost to the PDP in the Kashmir valley ? Secondly,is the NC leadership so much scared of factionalism in the party that it does not dare to throw Kamaal out of the organisation?Possibly the party leadership has opted for being a mute and passive spectator to Kamaal's fulminations against the centre and the Congress.By allowing Kamaal to open his mouth against the centre the NC leadership wants to project itself as an organisation that is not willing to play the second fiddle to the Congress and restrain him from engineering a split in the 72-year old political party.
Whatever meaning one may attribute to Dr Mustafa's harangue against the centre one cannot deny NC leadership's direct or indirect support to him which indicates that the party leadership is worried on two counts.One is the growing factionalism within the party and if Farooq Abdullah fails to stem the rot there can be many Rattanpuris and Mustafas in the organisation. Hence Dr Abdullah tries to avoid provoking dissidents by initiating any disciplinary action.Intead he has simply advised partymen to work unitedly.He and his son,Chief Minister Omar Abdullah,have,of late,been pleagued by a sesnse of uncertanity.They fear that the Congress may ditch the National Conference the way the PDP ditched the Congress in early 2008 which led to the fresh Assembly elections.It is this feeling of uncertanity that has motivated the Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy to spend more time in Jammu and Kashmir than in New Delhi.During his stay in Srinagar and Jammu Dr Farooq has been trying to guide his son on political craft though it is something different that Omar usually listens to his heart,if not to his brain waves.His frequent sojourns in Srinagar and Jammu are mainly utilised on keeping the NC flock together.He has to do it because the PDP has started making inroads into NC 's areas of influence. |
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