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| Ungrateful NC attacks Congress | | Calling the bluff | |
Neha
JAMMU, July 6: The NC leadership, especially the Abdullahs, is ungrateful to the Congress party, especially Nehru and Gandhis, who destroyed the state only to keep one family of Kashmir in good humour. This is the only inference one could draw from what Omar Abdullah's uncle and Farooq Abdullah's younger brother Mustafa Kamaal on Saturday said about the Congress party. On July 5, he accused the state Congress leadership of not cooperating with the NC during the last five and a half years of governance in the state and also charged it with playing a "double-game". "The state Congress leadership always mislead the Congress high command in Delhi about the NC. They never supported the NC during the last over five and half years of governance as was expected from it," he told reporters at Srinagar.
The NC additional general secretary, who is being used from time to time by the Abdullah dynasty to advocate its line, not only accused the state Congress of playing a double role and not cooperating with Omar Abdullah's government, but also charged it with the secretly hobnobbing and flirting with the People's Democratic Party leadership."There was a clandestine understanding between some local Congress leaders with its arch rival PDP and both had tried to dislodge Omar Abdullah government a few months after Narendra Modi won the election," he told reporters. (Modi won Lok Sabha election only less than two months ago."
Indeed, the Abdullahs are ungrateful to the Congress. It is important to note that it was because of the Congress leader and then Prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru that Sheikh Abdullah, who was looked down upon by the people of Jammu and Ladakh and who was for the state's merger with Pakistan, came to power in the state in October 1947, when the state acceded to India. Again, it was prime Minister Indira Gandhi who brought back to power the deflated Sheikh in February 1975. Mustafa Kamal says that the local Congress leadership plays a double game and it never cooperates with the NC. He should know that Indira Gandhi had brought down her own party's government in 1975 to facilitate the installation of the controversial Sheikh as Chief Minister. It was Congress Chief Minister Mir Qasim who quit much to the chagrin of the local Congress leadership. Remember, ever since 1975, the Congress has been struggling to remain somewhat relevant in the state politics.
Not only in 1947 and 1975, in 1987 also, it was the Congress that cameto the rescue of the bewildered Farooq Abdullah and ensured his victory in the 1987 assembly elections - a victory that turned out to be a great setback for the national interest in the state. It was Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, who sided with Farooq Abdullah and both behaved in a most irresponsible manner. The wholesale rigging of the assembly elections in 1987 was something for which the nation is paying through its nose even today. Again, in 2008, it was Sonia Gandhi who ditched the PDP leadership to bring Omar Abdullah to power in the state, despite the fact that the NC had only 28 members in the 87-member house. Not just that, Sonia Gandhi has allowed Omar Abdullah to complete six years in office with senior Congress leaders like Taj Mhi-ud-Din giving unstinted support to Omar Abdullah. It would not be out of place to mention here that Sonia Gandhi did not revive the 2002 power-sharing formula that had said the PDP would lead the state government during the first three years and the Congress during the remaining period of three years. The charge of Mustafa Kamal that the local Congress leadership didn't cooperate with Omar Abdullah holds no ground. All the Congress ministers from Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh have all along given unqualified support to Omar Abdullah, notwithstanding the fact that their support to Omar Abdullah was costing the Congress party very dear in Jammu province and Ladakh region. It is time for the Congress to hit back and assert its authority. It has no other alternative except to call the Abdullahs' bluff. The sooner it does so the better. Not to do so or to continue to swallow insults would be only to weaken further the party's support-base in the state.
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