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| Umar calls Omar led Govt inefficient | | | Thank God separatists, mainly the
moderates, have started getting dis
turbed by the day to day problems of people in Jammu and Kashmir. Atleast for a change Maulvi Umar Farooq's heart seems to beat when he experienced the extent of difficulties people in the state face on account of electricity crisis, acute shortage of drinking water, nonavailability of consumer items at reasonable rates. For the last 22 years these separatists have been disturbed only by the delay in the settlement of the Kashmir issue. They have been disturbed by genuine and fake complants on human rights violations by the security forces. They have either feigned ignor ance or have remained ignorant about the human rights violations in the form of extortion, brutal killings, kidnappings, forcible marriages and other crimes being committed by the militants in the state. They did not participate in the Assembly, Panchayat and civic elections because they felt that people participated in these elections only for ensuring they have good roads, better power and drinking water supply and suitable employment package for the educated unemployed youth. They remained off the poll battle because the battle they have been fighting since 1989 is aimed at, what they claim, resolving the Kashmir issue.
Now Maulvi Umar Farooq seems to be so much incensed by acute power and drinking water shortage that he has described the Government led by Omar Abdullah as the most incompetent, inefficient and corrupt. Not only this the Omar led Government is involved in largescale swindling, bungling and irregularities while spending funds on various projects. He has accused the successive state Governments of total failure in reducing power deficit and blames the Government for not having been able to increase power generation by 1800 MWs during the last five years as it had made a commitment and instead it has been able to add one MW since 2006. If Maulvi Umar's figures are correct one has no hesitation in describing the state Government's performance most shameful. He accuses the Government of lack of proper planning and has held it responsible for the plight of people in Kashmir who shiver in subzero temperature in the Kashmir valley. It would have been better had Movi Umar stretched his neck to assess the power availability situation in the Jammu region too where people fume and fret when the day temperature ranges between 38 degrees and 44 degrees celsius during the summer months.
The situation on the development front, especially on the availability of electricity, in Jammu and Kashmir would have not been as dismal as it is now had the separatists launched a campaign against it. The situation would have improved had the separatists bid farewell to their antiindia ideology and participated in the Assembly elections. It is not necessary that the separatists would have been voted to power because their areas of influence are limited in the state but they could have formed a powerful opposition front in the state Legislature thereby making it difficult for the ruling party or the ruling coalition to indulge in irregularities and corrupt practices. These separatists have wasted their 22 years and during this time they simply misguided people on various political and economic issues. In politics and in state management it is never too late to mend. One hopes people like Molvi Umar shed their known separatist doctrine and raise issues that concern people, highlight those issues that plague people, campaign against those problems and issues that bother people of the state.Let the Molvi and his associates stop looking for support and guidance from India's one of the neighbours because that neighbour has never come out of political and economic mess.Let them seek inspiration from the vibrant democratic traditions in India. |
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