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| Farooq demanding discussion on interlocutors' report, Omar demanding revocation of AFSPA | | Status Of Congress -- II | | RUSTAM
JAMMU, Jan 31: If on January 29 Farooq Abdullah underlined the need for discussion on and implementation of the controversial report of the interlocutors, his son and Chief Minister Omar Abdullah insisted on the same day that he would take rest only after the Armed Forces Special Powers Act is lifted from certain areas. Saying that withdrawal of the AFSPA was on the top his agenda, Omar Abdullah expressed "surprise over 'more resistance' from the Army for removal of the Act from certain areas of the State despite assurances that their interests would be protected".
"Unfortunately, there is more resistance than I would have liked from the Army for the reasons I don't understand. It's a considered decision that the areas that we are looking at for the removal of AFSPA are the areas where we don't require the Army to operate. They are not operating on counter-insurgency grid. Unfortunately, the Army never had counter-insurgency as its task for district Srinagar. Right from the beginning, it was first the job of the BSF and the BSF was replaced by the CRPF why can't that continue," he said while taking on the Army.
So, while Farooq Abdullah insisted on a discussion on the interlocutors' report and its implementation, Omar Abdullah insisted on revocation of the AFSPA. Both aired the views which again indicated their bias against the Indian laws and Indian political system, whatever it is, and the Army overlooking their obligations towards the constitution and the Indian State.
Anyway, but Farooq Abdullah and Omar Abdullah said was not surprising. They said what they believed in. This is not the main issue. The main issue is the role of the Congress in the state polity. It is the state Congress leadership which is responsible for whatever the NC leaders did in the past and what they have been doing since January 5, 2009, when the NC, which had only 28 members in the 87-member Legislative Assembly, captured state power after manipulating the Congress high command. Ever since then, Omar Abdullah and Farooq Abdullah have been indulging in competitive communalism and competitive separatism to controvert the growing influence of the PDP, the main opposition party which stands for self-rule and a mechanism that enables Pakistan to share sovereign powers with India in the Indian Jammu and Kashmir. The Congress did assert but only once when JKPCC president Prof Saif-ud-Din Soz put his foot down and took on Omar Abdullah for his unilateral decision on the AFSPA. This happened in October-November last year. The JKPCC never asserted its authority before October-November 2010 and nor afterwards. This is a statement of fact.
It would be only reasonable to say that the state Congress leadership has failed not only its own constituency in Jammu and Kashmir but also become a party to what the NC has been doing to wreck the polity from within and outside by raking up highly controversial/divisive issues and insisting on them. The truth is that the state Congress is no more than a C-team of the NC whose only duty is to endorse and support all the decisions and actions of Omar Abdullah and Farooq Abdullah. In other words, the Congress has no say whatsoever in the governance of the state. It is NC rule; it is not the rule of the NC-Congress coalition. That's it. The Congress high command has practically abandoned the state Congress leadership and put all the eggs in the NC basket for reasons not really difficult to fathom. One of the reasons is that the Congress high command is playing the role the Muslim League played in the country before 1947 to ensure the partition of India on the basis of religion. It is no wonder then that the concerned citizens "want burial" of this outfit. They are so fed up with the Congress party. |
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