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| CM again picks issues over AFSPA, this time with Lt General Om Prakash | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, July 20: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has picked up another controversy with his latest statement holding that Lieutenant General Om Prakash should not have called the situation 'alarming'.
The CM said nobody should make a statement like that as it is likely to create panic among the tourists and the Yatris who have been thronging the Valley in appreciable numbers this year.
Significantly, the CM also said if the situation was actually alarming then it needed to be found out who was actually responsible for allowing such a fresh deterioration in the overall security in the State.
Ever since the CM picked up the AFSPA controversy with the Army there has been no end to the simmering discontent between the two. Earlier, those sympathetic to Omar Abdullah's views on lifting of AFSPA believed it was General V.K. Singh, the former COAS who did not see eye to eye with the State Government on AFSPA. The same school of thought has indicated that General Singh's exit would smoothen out things on AFSPA resistance by the Army.
Especially it was believed that the elevation of General Bikram Singh to the top job would come as a big relief for the Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister who has been drawing and redrawing his calendar on the probable revocation of AFSPA from some districts of the State.
Hardly did those advocating this idea believe or know that the Army is not run on the whims of any single person even if he is its chief. The Army is a well-oiled machine which works in complete cohesion with all its wings and branches.
What, Lieutenant General SA Hasnain stated during his tenure as the GOC of the 15th Corps has now been reiterated by Lieutenant General Om Prakash, the present GOC of the Corps. The Army does not base its perceptions on whims or political suitability. Security perception is a hard fact well resourced and researched. It is not something the common man or the politicians in power would like to hear or not like to hear.
The fact of the matter is that any complacency on the crucial security front could tomorrow present a situation which would not be simply panic creating, but more importantly crippling of the society.
However, bitter the pill must be swallowed if that is what is the need of the hour. Had the perceptions about the security situation not be dismissed by those in power in 1987, things would not have come to the type of climax we witnessed in 1990s.
Instead of trying to score points over the Army by voicing his concerns before the media, the CM would do himself and the people of the State immense good if he sits across the table with his security managers that includes the Army to hammer out who is actually harboring misconceptions about the security situation. |
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