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| Kamaal's scathing attack on JKPCC president | | Manifestation Of Arrogance | | Rustam
Jammu, Apr 11: It was just five days ago that National Conference president and Union Minister Farooq Abdullah brought back his brother Mustafa Kamaal as additional general secretary of the party. The reappointment of Kamaal as additional general secretary by the party chief was a clear indication that the NC as a party has prepared itself for another confrontation with its coalition partner Congress. How else should one interpret his re-elevation in the party despite the fact that he had not reformed himself or despite the fact that he had made several any anti-Congress statements after he was summarily removed from the position of additional general secretary-cum-chief spokesman in November last?
Between November 2011 and March 2012, Kamaal had on a number of occasions taken on the Congress party as well as New Delhi making it loud and clear that he would never adopt friendly attitude either towards New Delhi or towards the Congress with whose support the NC has been ruling or misruling the state and that he was committed to pursue the line his father Sheikh Abdullah pursued.
It was expected that Kamaal would use his new position in the party and taunt and snub the state Congress leaders, especially JKPCC president Saif-ud-Din Soz, and avenge his humiliation and he did precisely that. (Soz had shown Chief Minister Omar Abdullah his place by not only opposing his October 2011 unilateral announcement that he would revoke the AFSPA before the Durbar opened in Jammu in November and criticized the NC's attack on the army but had also charged the NC with violating the coalition dharma by speaking against the Congress high command and New Delhi and taking decisions unilaterally.) Kamaal took just a couple of days to unleash a no-holds-barred attack on the Congress to tell its leaders that they have no other option but to obey the diktats of the NC and keep their mouth shut.
Kamaal on Monday ridiculed the Congress leadership saying it was because of the Congress itself that the ministry could not be expanded. (Soz had on a couple of occasions said that cabinet expansion was round the corner.) Kamaal dismissed the Congress as a party plagued with dissensions and factionalism. He ridiculed the state Congress leadership overlooking the fact that his cousin and Chief Minister Omar Abdullah had tweeted the same day that there was no possibility of cabinet expansion in the near future.
As if all this was not enough to provoke the already rather dissatisfied local Congress leadership, Kamaal went several steps further on Tuesday and directed it "not to go public" on issues confronting the coalition government in the state. It would be only appropriate to quote here what he reportedly said yesterday on the sidelines of a party function in Jammu. Such an exercise would help determine the attitude of the NC towards the Congress.
Directly attacking Soz for his otherwise very positive views on empowerment of local bodies, including panchayats, and 73rd and 74th constitutional amendments and asking the Congress leadership to refrain from going public on issues facing the coalition government, Kamaal, inter-alia, reportedly said: "Such utterances may earn Congress some public sympathy, but it is not going to help the state government or the coalition by any means. The Congress leadership should instead use the proper forum to project such issues. Prof Soz is chairman of the Coalition Coordination Committee (CCC), he should raise these issues on this platform or in Congress Working Committee. Even I don't know much about 73rd and 74th constitutional amendments, how come masses know of it. What is the purpose of such uttering in public? NC leaders in the government are not creating any hurdle in empowering local bodies but instead they are working for strengthening these institutions." Soz had on Monday in a public rally in Jammu said that the NC was not doing anything to empower the local bodies. He had accused the NC of adopting a very negative attitude towards the 73rd and 74th amendment of the Indian constitution.
Kamaal asks the Congress leaders not to air views on issues confronting the coalition government. But the question to be asked to him is: does the NC or the Chief Minister consult the JKPCC president, who is chairman of the Congress-NC Coordination Committee, before making controversial statements on the AFSPA, Army and Indo-Pak relations or before demanding greater autonomy for the state? The answer is a big NO. The fact of the matter is that the NC has been ignoring the local Congress leadership ever since the inception of this hotchpotch and ragtag coalition. It is behaving as if there is one-party rule in the state. Let's see what response the latest provocative statement of Kamaal evokes from the Congress. |
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