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| Avoid playing politics over shrine blaze | | | Notwithstanding the fact
that the state Government
handled the otherwise stormy situation, the product of destruction of the Shrine of Dastgeer Sahib in Srinagar, tactfully the entire credit should be given to the people of Kashmir who did not carry their anger an anguish over the destruction of the shrine beyond permissible limits. People deserve appreciation because of their cooperation with the security forcees in allowing normalcy to be restored to Kashmir. Yes, separatists and subversives tried to use the Shrine incident for dest abilising peace in Kashmir. Peace remained derailed for five days with groups of people clashing with the security forces. Fortunately the Shrine incident did not prolong the conflict and violence to the dimensions which had been witnessed during five summer months of 2010 when about 120 people fell dead in the firing opened by the security forces for containing violence. This time during the six-day unrest there was no casualty for which the security forces deserve bouquets and not bricks.
For the first time in the past over three years Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah, has acted as a seasoned politicians when he sought a public apology for the restrict ion’s His Government had to impose during the protest rallies over the shrine blaze. Omar has said the situation arising in the wake of the Dastgeer Sahib shrine fire demanded imposition of restrictions in some parts of the city. "I make no apologies for the administrative measures used over the last few days in a handful of police stations. Situation demanded it," Omar wrote on micro-blogging site Twitter. The Chief Minister said the people who are making noise about the restrictions in old city would have been happier to see a repeat of 2010, when clashes between security forces and protesters became a routine. "So while I have no hesitation in apologising to people inconvenienced by the restrictions, we did what we had to do to keep peace," Omar has said. Omar alleged that there were people who would have liked to exploit the tragic loss of the shrine. "Unfortunately there are people completely devoid of any scruples who would exploit the recent tragedy and that could not be allowed. Had Omar and his party been in the opposition the two would have raised a bigger hue and cry that one witnessd during the last six days in Kashmir. The Chief Minister need to know that majority of people in Kashmir are still shrine believers and the blazing shrine may have hurt them beyond repair. And if politicians gave a call for shutdown they were acting within the permissible limits of demo-cractic practices and traditions. But the situation in Kashmir can assume alarming dimensions if people protesting against desecration of holy book or against torching of the shrine were allowed leniency. Afteer all incidents like the Shrine blaze can act as a convenient tool for the separatists and militants to derail peace and normalcy without opening a single gun short or without hurling a grenade. In this context one would differ chairman APHC, Molvi Umar F arooq, who has suggested to the ruling coalition leaders not to play politics on the shrine incident when he and is associates in the separatist amalgam tried to exploit the incident to their advantage. Omar Abdullah has denied this opportunity and advantage to them. |
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