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| Farooq Abdullah gracious enough to acknowledge defeat | | Autonomy & AFSPA | | NEHA
JAMMU, Sept 2: One may or may not agree, but it is a hard fact that NC president and Union Minister for Renewable Energy Farooq Abdullah on occasions publicly and gracefully acknowledges his defeat. Yesterday, he said something no NC leader, not even his son and Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, would have dared to say considering the nature of the constituency he represents. The case in point was his yesterday's admission that it would take decades and decades for the State to get autonomy and for the AFSPA to go from the State. These are "complex issues," he said. In fact, he was quoted as saying "these are complex issues and may take century to implement them in toto". Not only this, he also asked reporters not to ask him state-related questions; he asked them to ask the country-related issues, as he is a Union Minister. "Ask me questions about the country and not about the State. I am a Union Minister," he told reporters who were asking him some pertinent State-related questions. Farooq Abdullah made these important statements on the sidelines of a function at post office in Srinagar.
Now that Farooq Abdullah, who is a Cabinet Minister at the Centre and who feels the pulse of Delhi, has stated that autonomy and the AFSPA are complicated issues, it is time for the Chief Minister and his colleagues in the Cabinet belonging to the NC to ape the top party leader and stop seeking to achieve the unachievable. New Delhi cannot afford to grant autonomy to the State and revoke the AFSPA, notwithstanding the fact that there are many elements in the Union capital who have been directly and indirectly supporting these demands of the NC and other Kashmir-based political outfit plus the rights associations and sections of media. New Delhi cannot concede these demands because the national mood is against those who are creating problems for it in the Kashmir Valley. The nation, in fact, wants the Army to exercise extraordinary powers as the situation in Kashmir is extraordinary. It also wants New Delhi to integrate the State fully into India by doing away with Article 370. This is the national mood.
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and his colleagues in the Government and the party would do well to tour the length and breadth of the Kashmir Valley to tell the people that autonomy is an unachievable goal and the revocation of the AFSPA out of question. They must inform their constituency. If Farooq Abdullah could say so, why can't they. Even otherwise, they cannot speak differently on the same issue. In other words, Farooq Abdullah and Omar Abdullah cannot speak differently.
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