Early Times Report
JAMMU, Nov 17: Farooq Abdullah is not an ordinary politician, notwithstanding the fact that he was defeated by PDP in the Lok Sabha election, his brother Mustafa Kamaal lost his security deposit and his son Omar Abdullah lost from one constituency and could make to the assembly from another with a narrow margin of about 100 votes. He is an established leader and president of a party, which is the oldest party of Kashmir, National Conference. But more than that, he is three-time Chief Minister and also a former Union Minister.
It was not expected of him that he would cross even the red line and seek to provoke the student community of Kashmir to again raise anti-India storm in the Valley. But, sadly, he did that without realizing that no government is a permanent government and that his own party could emerge as a force to reckon with in Kashmir.
Farooq Abdullah not only questioned the political status of the state and made a highly controversial statement that Kashmir was not and will never be an integral part of India (an untenable and ridiculous statement) but also said that those who believed that things had turned normal in Kashmir were living in a fool's paradise and that storm would again rise in Kashmir after the exams were over in the Valley.
Interacting with reporters after a party function at NC headquarters Nawai Subh, Srinagar, he said that "If the Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar thinks that by examination and change in currency (demo-netisation), the storm, which has erupted here, will die down, then he has a misconception" and added that "This storm will not die down". "Whatever they do, this storm is there and after exams, they will see that the storm will rise once again," he also said. Parrikar a day before had said that demonetization had hit the separatists very hard and that they had no money to pay to the stone throwers.
This was the most dangerous statement that Farooq Abdulah made and that suggested that Farooq Abdullah and out of power National Conference could go to any extent to create troubles in the Valley only for political gains. He didn't realize that his statement had all the potential of misleading, misguiding and provoking the student community, which during the past three days gave its verdict: Education more important that separatism.
There is still time for Farooq Abdullah and his ilk to rethink and revise their whole approach towards India where the overwhelming view is that State was, is and shall always remain part of India come what may. |
