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| Professor Ghani's statement emboldens Omar | | Asks separatists to contest elections | | Early Times Report
Jammu, May 9: Emboldened by Professor Ghani Bhat's Sopore statement, the Chief Minister has dared the separatists to contest elections. "Let the people decide who represents them", he said.
Professor Bhat against whom, the Hurriyat (M) chairman, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has issued a show cause notice for violating the constitution of the conglomerate said UN resolutions were obsolete and could not solve the vexed Jammu Kashmir problem. He also suggested an alliance with the National Conference and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) for finding a suitable solution to the long pending dispute.
While professor's statement caused ripples in the separatist amalgam, the Chief Minister `mustered' the courage to throw a challenge to the separatists.
Interestingly, neither Omar nor anybody else from National Conference responded when Geelani dared the Abdullahs to hold a rally at Lal Chowk. "Allow me to hold a rally in Lal Chowk and I will show you whose writ runs in Kashmir."
Geelani had issued the statement in response to Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's statement wherein he had urged the separatists to refrain from hooliganism and fight politically" on December 16 last year.
Lal Chowk, pertinent to mention, remains out of bounds for the separatists since 2008. Geelani also continues to be under perpetual `house arrest' since last year's agitation. "If armed forces are withdrawn all of them (pro-Indian lobby) will go into hiding", he said in a hard hitting statement.
Geelani's supporters had welcomed the challenge. They are confident that nobody from the pro-India lobby can address a rally in Lal Chowk or anywhere else in the Valley without security. "Geelani on the other hand travelled in auto rickshaws at times. He gave police a slip several times to reach his supporters in Lal Chowk and down town area of Srinagar city", they said.
In September 2009 Geelani challenged former Chief Minister Dr Farooq Abdullah to address a rally in Lal Chowk. Geelani's challenge generated interesting discussion across Kashmir. While some quarters criticized Geelani for being "rude" others welcomed the statement. According to them this was the best way to ascertain the representative character of the people of Kashmir.
The enthusiastic supporters even amended Geelani's challenge. "We will not tell them to address a rally because we know they cannot do it. Instead let them walk from erstwhile Palladium cinema to erstwhile Regal cinema on any `working' day", they challenged. |
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