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| Kamaal unwilling to spare the Cong party | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Aug 7: NC additional general secretary Sheikh Mustafa Kamaal will not reform himself. Nor would he change his attitude towards the Congress party. This became evident yesterday when he attacked the Congress party from right and left without naming it. He did name the PDP and said the PDP was the number one enemy of the NC, but what he said was also a blistering attack on the Congress party. He, among other things, said: "People know that sex scandal, forest scam, Amarnath land row, corruption that took place in his (read Mufti Mohammad Sayeed-led Government) brief Government from 2002-2005 and they will always keep away from him and his Party. This period was the worst period of mis-governance and it will be remembered as the darkest period post 1947 in the history of J&K". Kamaal said so while addressing the party workers' convention at Baran in Balwal Block, Raipur-Domana Assembly constituency, Jammu.
Kamaal can say that he only attacked Mufti and the Government that he led, but the fact of the matter is that Mufti was not running a one party Government. He was leading a coalition Government. The Congress party, which had 20 MLAs, was part of it. The JKNPP, which had 4 MLAs, was a part of it. The People's Democratic Forum (PDF) was a part of it. It had about half a dozen MLAs. Besides, the CPI-M, which had two MLAs, supported the coalition Government from outside. Since ours is a Cabinet system of Government, all the decisions that the Mufti Government took or all the actions that his Government took were the decisions and actions of all the coalition partners. If something went wrong, all the coalition partners were equally responsible. One cannot absolve one and hold the other responsible for the wrongs that took place during what Kamaal terms as the "darkest period".
No one is defending the Government of that time. Many wrongs were committed by many. There was rampant corruption. Even the Transparency International adjudged Jammu & Kashmir the second most corrupt State in India after Bihar. The Transparency International has also not given a clean chit to the present dispensation. Its latest report also dismisses Jammu & Kashmir as the most corrupt State in India. There was a forest scam. But what did the NC-led Government has done to bring to justice those involved in the forest scam. There was Amarnath land row, but it happened when Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad was leading the Government. Yes, sex scandal rocked the State, but who were the persons involved in the scandal and what has been done to them during all these more than three years of the NC-led dispensation.
And, what about the present dispensation? How is it different from the one Kamaal attacked yesterday? There are cases and cases of corruption against many Ministers. Everyone knows who these Ministers are. They are out of jail because the cases against them are pending in various courts, including State High Court. One simply needs to visit the State Accountability Commission to find the names of Ministers and others in the administration involved in massive scams. The Government of Manmohan Singh never censured Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, but it did censure the present Chief Minister. It held Omar Abdullah responsible for "trust deficit" and "governance deficit".
Those who believe that the Congress against which Kamaal has been carrying a no-holds-barred campaign ever since the formation of the NC-Congress coalition Government will muster courage and take on the NC additional general secretary are living in a world of the past. The Congress will not react because there is much that is undesirable in the party. That's the reason Kamaal and others of his ilk are abusing, ridiculing and snubbing the Congress leadership sometime directly and sometime indirectly as he did yesterday. That in Jammu also he attacks the Congress is a clear indication that the NC is trying to create its support-base at the cost of the Congress party. It's a different story that the people of Jammu, barring a few opportunists, are holding themselves aloof from the NC. The proof: The number of NC MLAs in Jammu Pradesh is just 6 out of 37. It has one MLA each in Samba district, erstwhile Doda district, Reasi district and Poonch district and two in Rajouri district. This is the position in Jammu Pradesh of the party which was founded in Kashmir 75 years ago. Even in Kashmir, it is the PDP which has more MLAs and more voters as compared to the NC. The erstwhile Srinagar district is the only district in Kashmir where the NC has strong support-base, which is also dwindling. But Kamaal will not look these facts in the face. Nor would he analyze the factors which have made the NC so unpopular in such a span of 15 years. |
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