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Can Omar's good governance wait till centre talks to separatist? | | | Early Times Report Jammu, Jan 1: Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram has once again hinted at the possibility of a dialogue between the centre and Kashmiri separatist leaders. Without giving out the specifics, the Home Minister said there could be a dialogue with the separatists if they choose to come forward for the same in 2012. he separatist leaders have reacted on the expected lines. Mirwaiz Omar Farooq, chairman of one of the factions of the all party Hurriyat conference, has said the dialogue would be meaningful only if it was tripartite. Without rejecting the dialogue offer directly, Mirwaiz Omar Farooq has again raised the traditional defence the Kashmiri separatists leaders have always done to shy away from the dialogue table. Although Syed Ali Shah Geelani has not issued any statement on the offer, it should not be very difficult for anybody to imagine the octogenarian separatist leader's reaction on the issue of dialogue with the centre. Others like Shabir Ahmad Shah, Mohammad Yasin Malik, Sajad Lone, Mohammad Nayeem Khan etc have also reacted on the expected lines. They have not opposed the dialogue, but asserted the same should be meaningful. Year that went by has witnessed comparative quiet in the Valley and the Jammu region. The Valley received a record number of tourists last year which enabled many locals connected with the tourism industry to earn a respectable livelihood. Those not otherwise directly connected with the tourist industry also heaved relief as businesses, education etc went about normally last year. The gains have definitely to be credited to the good sense of the people. It is always the common man whose writ ultimately decides whether there would be peace or turmoil. This is an accepted reality the denying of which would do no good to either the separatist or the mainstream leaders of the State. Peace has prevailed in the State last year despite the fact that the State government left almost everything to be desired. From checking corruption to providing electric power supply to the people, the State government messed up its act. It is unbelievable that corruption could become so common place during the Chief Ministership of Omar Abdullah whose biggest claim to power in 2008 was being 'Mr. Clean'. Not that anything has been established personally against the youngest Chief Minister of the country, but the fact that he has been feeling helpless before a highly degenerated, corrupt and nepotism ridden system proves Omar Abdullah must introspect. It is always necessary for a well meaning ruler to send out a powerful signal that he means business. Decisions to sack the powerful and the corrupt will always be bitter and hard to take, but unless the Chief Minister musters up the courage to break loose from the influence of those who patronize the nexus of evil he would have achieved nothing. Omar Abdullah needs to understand that all the achievements projected through official press releases mean little to the common man as long as he has to stand in queue for a ration card while others jump over his head paying a few bucks to the corrupt clerk who is the smallest fry in the sinister chain of graft that ends at the level of the district development commissioner and the HOD. Three years in power must have made it clear to the Chief Minister that he has not made any difference to the lives of the common people in the State. Would he also go down as many other young men went down the power lane with shattered dreams and nightmarish memories? |
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