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| ‘Mir a chameleon, Mir a man of agencies’ | | No Autonomy, No Self-Rule | | RUSTAM
JAMMU, Aug 28: Democratic Party Nationalist president and Agriculture Minister in the NC-led coalition government Ghulam Hassan Mir is a "chameleon". He is an "agent" and "stooge" of New Delhi". He is a man of Indian "spy agencies". He is a fair weather cock. He is politically dishonest. He ditched Sheikh Abdullah. He ditched the PDP. He is a man of small stature. He is seeking to achieve a status he doesn't deserve. Senior NC leaders like party additional general secretary and Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's uncle Sheikh Mustafa Kamaal and Minister of Law, Justice, Parliamentary and Rural Development Ali Mohammad Sagar are using all these epithets and invectives while describing the political character of Mir. APHC (M) chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq also criticized Mir once but he was not that bitter. He shared and opposed his views at the same time.
What has provoked and angered these NC leaders were certain statements Mir made recently and repeatedly at various places in his assembly constituency in Kashmir. Mir had accused the votary of plebiscite in Kashmir Sheikh Abdullah of creating a mess in Kashmir and dismissed as impracticable the demands as put forth by the NC and the PDP. He had said that what people wanted was good governance, development and economic development and not autonomy and self-rule because these two "solutions" could not address the real issues of the people, especially the youth. He had not only ridiculed the NC and PDP leadership for their insistence on autonomy and self-rule but also accused the leadership of these two parties of befooling the people to promote their personal agendas. He had even gone to the extent of saying that the Kashmiri leaders had been unnecessarily reflecting on the Indian external policy. He had said that the people of the state had nothing to do with the problems between India and Pakistan. Besides, he had commended in a way the 1975 Accord between the then Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and Sheikh Abdullah. Sheikh Abdullah had given up his 23-year-old plebiscite demand or compromised his "ideology" for the sake of personal power and profit and become Chief Minister in February 1975.
Mir committed no sin when he took on and ridiculed Sheikh Abdullah and votaries of autonomy and self-rule and underlined the need for a policy aimed at ensuring peace, economic development and better future for the youth. Similarly, he hit the nail on the head when he took on those who had been poking their nose in the external affairs of India. Mir should have been commended for the line he repeatedly took, but it has not happened. NC, unlike the PDP leadership leaders continues to attack Mir. It is indeed remarkable to note that Mir has not deviated even an inch from the path he recently charted for himself. Kashmir needs more Mirs.
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