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| For NC votes, Azad exposes himself and the Congress | | Ideologically on the same page | | Rustam
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Jan 29: The outgoing Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Bhat Azad, who and whose party were rejected by the Jammu electorate twice in 2014, is desperate to reenter the Rajya Sabha. He is completing his term in the Rajya Sabha in the second week of February. He is so desperate to win the election with the support of the NC which was condemned by him umpteen times only recently, particularly after December 23, when the election results were announced, that on Wednesday he candidly acknowledged that the Congress and the NC stood for the same philosophy and that they are the natural allies.
"What Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru and Mahatma Gandhi were doing for the entire country, Sheikh (Mohammad Abdullah) Sahib was doing it for Jammu and Kashmir. Sheikh Sahab, Gandhiji, Pandit Nehru, Maulana Azad, Sardar Patel- they have fought together for the democracy…And I must say leadership of the two parties and the legacy continues till date…There have been clash of personalities from time to time which is bound to happen and which happens in a family also between father and son. So far as principles are concerned, we have the same basic principles and there is no difference as far as policies and principles are concerned," he said after filing his nomination papers for the Rajya Sabha seat in the civil secretariat.
Azad is a common candidate of the Congress and the NC, which share between them 27 seats -- three seats less than the number required to win the Rajya Sabha seat. He is pitted against the PDP and the BJP candidates, which will leave no stone unturned to ensure the defeat of Azad. The manner in which Sonia Gandhi sought the support of the NC and the manner in which Omar Abdullah & Co took a complete U-turn have exposed both the NC and the Congress and surprised even their supporters who have termed the alliance between the two as "unholy".
However, the candidature of Azad is not the issue. The issue is what he said about the principles and policies of the Congress and the NC. He only vindicated those who considered both the Congress and the NC responsible for all the ills facing the nation in Kashmir. It was the Congress which in 1947 accorded a dangerous respectability to the politics of communalism and separatism being indulged in by the father and founder of the Kashmir-centric and anti-Jammu and anti-Ladakh Sheikh Abdullah by conspiring against the pro-integrationist forces in Jammu and Ladakh and transferring the state power from Jammu to Sheikh Abdullah using questionable means. It was again the Congress which drove the state away from the country's mainstream by incorporating the obnoxious Article 370 in the Indian Constitution and the whole objective of the Congress was to promote communalism and separatism in Kashmir through Sheikh Abdullah and his NC. It was again the Congress which in 1952 virtually endorsed the anti-India and sectarian point of view of Sheikh Abdullah. Had the people of Jammu province not revolted against the Congress and Sheikh Abdullah under the leadership of Syama Prasad Mookerjee, the story of Jammu & Kashmir would have been altogether different. It was the Ek Nissan, Ek Vidhan and Ek Pradhan movement in Jammu that brought Nehru to its knees in 1953 and forced him not only to remove Sheikh Abdullah from the office of the Prime Minister but also had him arrested on the charge of sedition. Again, it was the Congress which in 1974-1975 entered into an accord with the deflated Sheikh Abdullah and not only brought him back to power in the state after a long gap of 22 years, but also allowed the Sheikh to review certain central laws which were extended to the state after August 9, 1953. Earlier in 1954, the Congress and the National Conference had hatched a conspiracy against the refugees from West Pakistan and their objective was to create a situation that would bar these refugees from enjoying citizenship rights in Jammu & Kashmir. The case in point is Article 35-A in the Indian Constitution which was adopted and enforced without taking the Indian Parliament into confidence. Article 35-A was nothing but a fraud committed on the nation.
What the Congress did after 1975 is also too well known to the people of the state and the nation. So, when Azad claimed that the principles and policies of the NC and the Congress were the same, he only cleared the cobwebs of confusion and tell the people of Kashmir that the Congress stood for the Kashmiri Muslim sub-nationalism. Indeed, for petty votes, Azad and the Congress could go to any extent and as far as the NC is concerned, less said the better. Suffice to say that while Omar Abdullah is sitting on the demose of the NC, Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi are sitting on the ruins of the Congress party to which Azad or Bhat belongs. |
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