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| CM entering the domain not entitled to | | Indo-Pak Conflict | | Rustam
JAMMU, May 8: What are the fundamental duties of any Chief Minister? The fundamental duties of any Chief Minister in the country are to provide a clean, fair, impartial, corruption-free, transparent and accountable administration to the people; tackle unemployment problem; redress the grievances of the people, provide civic amenities and create adequate educational and healthcare facilities; establish rule of law by reining in trouble-makers, extremists, terrorists, Pakistani-sponsored terrorists or Maoist terrorists and religious bigots; defend the Constitution at whatever cost; and supplement efforts of those engaged in the defence of the country or those combating terrorism and secessionism. The fundamental duty of Chief Minister is to address the day-to-day problems the people face at the hands of certain corrupt, irresponsible, arrogant and inaccessible officials in the civil and police administration. Yet another fundamental duty of Chief Minister is to behave in a fashion that inspires people to work for the all round regeneration of the State.
Sadly, we have in our highly sensitive and militant and separatist-infested border State of Jammu and Kashmir a Chief Minister who, instead of discharging his obligations towards the State, nation and people, has been invariably entering the domain he is not entitled by the Constitution to enter. The case in point is his oft-repeated statements on India-Pakistan relations, on the Indian Army, on the anti-terror laws or on the laws that the security forces require to deal with subversives and secessionists in an effective manner.
Take, for example, what he said on Monday at Srinagar while addressing media persons on the occasion of reopening of move offices in the State's summer capital, Srinagar. He didn't really refer to the real problems people had been facing under his rule or whatever one may call it. Nor did he say that he would do all that he could to address their concerns and mitigate their hardships. Nor did he say that his administration would eliminate the menace of corruption in his administration as well as the political establishment. He talked about everything, barring the issues of public and national import. He focused mainly on India-Pakistan relations and repeatedly emphasized the need for harmonizing relations with Pakistan whose single-point agenda is, everyone knows, to destroy India in the name of "peace" in South Asia. He didn't say a single word against what Pakistan had been doing to harm and bleed India and annex Jammu and Kashmir. Nor did he say a single word against those in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir who have been exporting terror to India and inciting the gullible Muslims of Kashmir to rise against the Indian State. He only spoke the language the canny, undependable and unscrupulous Pakistani political leadership had been speaking for years now. In fact, what he spoke about India-Pakistan relations and the so-called external dimension created an impression that he and his Government of which the Congress is an integral part represents the Pakistani viewpoint in the Indian Jammu and Kashmir. His statement that "we hope that the Centre will take all steps needed to address the internal as well as external dimensions of Kashmir issue" should clinch the whole issue and establish that he doesn't really consider Jammu and Kashmir an integral part of India in the real sense of the term and that he, like Pakistan, believes that Islamabad is one of the principle stakeholders in the State.
To be more precise, he entered the domain that was exclusively of the South Block that also houses the Indian Foreign Office. He poked his nose in the external affairs of the country and once again sought to queer the Indian pitch in Kashmir by speaking the language Islamabad speaks. New Delhi would not take cognizance of the Chief Minister's unwarranted interference in the country's external affairs. There should be no doubt about it. In fact, our Prime Minister and the AICC chief and UPA chairperson themselves are furthering the Pakistani cause in the Indian Jammu and Kashmir one way or the other under pressure from United States and similar other countries. The entire nation knows it. It is simply waiting for an opportunity to avenge the humiliations the Chief Minister and certain elements in the Indian political establishment have been causing for quite sometime now. There is no doubt that the next Assembly elections in the State and general elections in the country would ensure the exit of the NC and the Congress from office. This is the general opinion. |
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