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| Mufti's pragmatic handling prevented Gadigarh flare up | | | Abodh Sharma
ET Report
Jammu, June 11: BJP-PDP Government might have invited criticism from the opposition on several counts on completion of its hundred days in office, but even its detractors have privately commended the manner in which it managed to nip in the bud the incident that followed pulling off of a controversial poster in Gadigarh recently.
But for the mature handling, the incident had the potential to flare up into controversy with huge ramifications as the issue had a religious and emotional overtone and threatened to alienate communities and vitiate atmosphere of religious amity in the state.
Even the bitter adversaries of Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed have confessed in private that the situation was handled with great deal of compassion and pragmatism even though the provocation was impelling. Sources in the government divulge that the Chief Minister took direct control of the situation and monitored it closely, issuing instructions to the administration.
Comparing the incident with the infamous summer unrest of 2010, a Congress leader, pleading not be named admitted that the political leadership was alive to the situation and it instructed the civil and police administration to deal the situation with compassion. "While the credit goes to the political leadership and the local administration, the role played by the leaders of Sikh social, political and religious organizations was imperative" he said regretting that during the 2010 summer unrest, when the NC-Congress alliance was in power, there were all out efforts to aggravate the situation from several agencies including those across the border.
Pertinently, after first two days following the incident, the situation was grim and many predicted that blaze could soon engulf the entire region, but the political leadership stepped in timely and guided the local administration to deal with the situation with empathy, following which all the demands of the agitating groups were conceded and it was ensured that no further loss of life or property took place.
The incident refreshed the horrifying memories of the summer unrest of 2010, which was marked by months of unrest marked by stone-pelting protests, the deaths of over 100 people. Although the state government blamed the Macchil incident for the summer unrest in the Valley, the killing of a teenager in police action at Gojawara on June 11 is widely considered as the reason for the five months of shutdown, protests, curfew and further killings.
The Gadigarh incident and the way it was negotiated by the PDP-BJP leadership would definitely have stirred up the conscience of the then National Conference led Coalition Government and the former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah in particular that they could have handled the situation in a better way and saved so many precious lives. |
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