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| To woo voters, Omar gets "biased" in treating human tragedies | | | Bharat Bhushan
Jammu, Aug 9: Known for his abrupt reaction to situations which he thinks can give him some sort of political benefit in Kashmir, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has many times been accused of bias in treating "human" tragedies.
A few days back, he was quick to condemn the recent forcing of a Muslim to break his Ramzan fast by some Shiv Sena MPs at Maharashtra Sadan in Delhi. He must react to such shameful acts. And why only he? Every right-thinking Indian ought to condemn the acts which hurt the religious sentiments of individuals. But his anger in this case was seemingly to woo Muslim voters in Kashmir where National Conference was trounced in the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections.
On the other side, when, on August 6 last, a Hindu woman, who taught English in a mosque in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, was abducted, forced to embrace Islam and then gang-raped, he preferred to keep mum on the micro-blogging site Twitter.com. Not only in this case, he has earlier also showed hesitation in condemning the incidents which, he feels, can turn the mood of the Valley people against him and his NC.
"Omar, tragedies are tragedies. These ought to be condemned in strongest possible words by one and all without any bias," feel Jammuites.
In July 2012, he had angrily reacted to the molestation of a girl student in Guwahati, but at home, he has always been accused of bias while dealing with human tragedies of Kashmir and Jammu regions. In May 2011, Omar's initiative to call Navy divers from Delhi to search out the body of Zuhaid Rizvi, a Kashmiri medical student, from Mansar lake here was widely hailed, but at the same time, he had come under severe criticism for allegedly not showing any interest in dealing with similar human tragedies in Jammu.
Take the case of two girls of minority community -- Sapna, daughter of Nand Lal and Sangeeta, daughter of Janki Nath - who were reported to have drowned, or jumped into Chenab river at Paddar in Kishtwar, but Omar had not thought it proper to also engage Navy divers for their search despite a public uproar and violent protests.
This showed that the Chief Minister was biased towards Jammu in dealing with the incidents of human sufferings, said Sudhakar of Raghunath Pura.
He felt that the Chief Minister should also have shown the same concern in the case of the two missing Paddar girls.
Khalid Malik of Rajouri said Omar was Chief Minister of the whole state and not of Kashmir only. He should have taken interest in the Paddar incident too for the recovery of the bodies of the missing girls, he felt.
Who is to be held responsible for the death of Sapna and Sangeeta? The families of the dead girls want the Chief Minister to give reply to this question and tell them why he was "biased" in treating the human tragedies of the two regions. |
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