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| Omar's uncharitable tweet touches new towers | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Mar 27: Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah is angry. He seems to have lost his cool, if he has any, over an incident of heckling and attacking of senior Kashmiri separatist leader, Syed Ali Shah Geelani in New Delhi allegedly by the activists of Bhagat Singh Kranti Sena (BSKS) and the Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP).
Omar is so much upset over the incident that he, in his tweet ,described the activists of the BSKS and the ABVP as "goons." Omar has said "These BSKS and ABVP goons are bloody idiots. Anyone can assault an old man. As if attacking Geelani will make the Kashmir issue just disappear."
Omar Abdullah is right. The right to heckle, to attack to criticise a leader like Syed Ali Shah Geelani, it seems in the eyes of Omar, should be given only to the workers and leaders of the National Conference. Possibly Omar believes that if Geelani fulminates against India and against the state's accession with India it is an internal matter of Jammu and Kashmir state. If Geelani disputes the state's accession with India and demands implementation of the UN resolution on Kashmir, providing for grant of right of self-determination to the people of the state, it is an internal matter of Jammu and Kashmir state which does not warrant any mediation by the activists of BSKS and ABVP.
Critics argue that when Omar Abdullah and his party colleagues berated Geelani for inciting unrest and civilian strife in Kashmir during the summer of 2010 why should he question activists of BSKS and ABVP for heckling Gilani when he was scheduled to address a conference where he had nothing else to do but to fulminate against India's role in Kashmir?
Ask any supporter of the National Conference about it he would appreciate Omar's tweet saying "Geelani is a citizen of Jammu and Kashmir and under Article 370 of the Constitution of India, which gives to the state a special status within the union of India, he can be heckled and attacked only by a permanent resident of this border state.
Omar Abdullah and his father, Dr Farooq Abdullah, believe in silencing critics and political foes through arguments. They believe that the National Conference leaders and supporters should exchange arguments with their political foes and not fists and blows. They believe that lowering of trousers in front of a top female Indian political leader in Kashmir in 1983 was not as much unceremonius as heckling of Geelani by the activists of BSKS and ABVP.
Even if the separatists are not defeated through the war of words they should be put behind the bars. But that right of sending political foes and separatists to jails belongs to the NC leadership and not to the "goons" of BSKS and the ABVP.
Omar is not wrong when he says that the Kashmir issue may not disappear by heckling and attacking an old man like Geelani. Does he mean to say that the Kashmir issue may cease to exist if the activists of the BSKS and the ABVP attack young political leaders.
Had not Omar recently tweeted that he had grown old and had released his picture with grey hair and spectacles he would have invited the BSKS and ABVP activists to attack him. There was a time when the NC leadership would not hesitate spitting venom against leaders of the stature of Geelani.
Why this change in the party leadership? Possibly Omar does not want to provoke Geelani in order to ensure a peaceful summer in 2012. He has fears that once Geelani was provoked he may be as dangerous as a wounded lion and create added problems for Omar who does not want to be treated as a young political leader. He has lost the stature of being the youngest chief Minister after the 38-year Akhlesh Yadav was sworn in Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh recently.
Critics of Omar Abdullah argue that the Kashmir Chief Minister wants to keep the separatists in good humour so that in case Omar lost power he did not lose his vigour as political leader. He knows it well that he may be able to check the level of erosion that has plagued the National Conference if he fulminates against the activists of saffron brigade which may prove as good as music to the ears of people in Kashmir. |
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