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| Mirwaiz, APHC will never accept Chief Minister's challenge | | Elections & Kashmiri Separatists | | Rustam
jammu, May 11: All-Party Hurriyat Conference (APHC-M) chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq yesterday said that nobody from his outfit would ever contest elections and added that he and his colleagues in the APHC-M will continue to create environment that forces the Government of India to implement the UN resolutions on Jammu and Kashmir and organize referendum there to ascertain the will of the people of the State.
"The Hurriyat cannot forget sacrifices rendered by the people of Kashmir and contest elections. Hurriyat ideology is not of power mongering but for resolution of Kashmir issue. Elections cannot ease the pain of people, who have given supreme sacrifices for the cause of freedom and better future of Kashmiris," Mirwaiz reportedly said while speaking at a public contact meet in Srinagar. He, in addition, asserted that "by holding referendum, they (the State Government and the Government of India) will certainly come to know as to who are the true representatives of the people".
Mirwaiz talked of referendum overlooking the fact that such an exercise cannot be undertaken in this part of the State. The UN resolutions had suggested referendum in the entire State of Jammu and Kashmir as it existed on August 15, 1947. What does this mean? This means this part of the State and the Jammu and Kashmir territories, including the so-called Azad Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan region which Pakistan occupied illegally in 1947 after waging war. The UN resolutions nowhere suggested plebiscite region-wise or district-wise. The resolutions clearly asked Pakistan to vacate the aggression so that peace was restored in the occupied areas by the India forces. Pakistan never vacated the aggression and, hence, the question of organizing referendum in the Indian Jammu and Kashmir doesn't arise. Mirwaiz knows it and still he is trying to achieve something that is unachievable. He is simply fooling himself and misleading the people of Kashmir.
Mirwaiz, it appears, made these statements in response to the Chief Minister's challenge to the effect that he would dissolve the Assembly in case the separatist outfits, including the discredited and out-on-the-limb of APHC-M, are prepared to test their popularity by participating in an electoral exercise. Mirwaiz just can't afford to take the plunge and participate in any electoral exercise. He would become totally irrelevant the moment he accepts the Chief Minister's challenge. The reason is that his outfit, which consists of a number of self-seekers and blackmailers, would not win even half a dozen Assembly seats. The position of Yasin Malik and other separatists like Geelani, Shabbir Ahmad Shah, Bilal Lone, Nayeem Khan, to mention only a few, would be no different in case they decide to contest elections. They would lose and lose very badly.
One can very well understand the limitations and compulsions of Mirwaiz. Mirwaiz is not that popular. In fact, he has over the period become quite unpopular in Kashmir. His area of influence is confined to a few pockets in the downtown area, especially the area around Jamia Masjid, Srinagar. He has no support-base even in the Lal Chowk area and Hyderpora and areas around this locality near the Srinagar Airport. Hyderpora and parts of Lal Chowk area are the places where Syed Ali Shah Geelani and Yasin Malik play their sectarian and separatist politics.
Mirwaiz is fully aware of the ground realities as they exist in the Kashmir valley. That's the reason he is mortally afraid of contesting elections. His statement that none from his outfit would contest elections needs to be viewed in this context. |
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