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Early Times Report
jammu, July 13: Are all in the ruling PDP not happy? Yes, it appears. If not many, at least two very senior PDP leaders are quite unhappy and they are expressing their unhappiness publicly. They are Lok Sabha members and former Cabinet Ministers, who held the portfolio of finance. One is Tariq Hamid Karra and other is Muzafar Hussain Baig. Significantly, both Baig and Karra, like all the four BJP Members of Parliament, were conspicuous by their absence in the Iftaar party hosted by Chief Minister Mufti Sayeed on Sunday at Ashoka Hotel, New Delhi. It was the PDP MP and former Finance Minister Tariq Hamid Karra who was the first senior leader to express his unhappiness after the formation of the PDP-BJP coalition government. So much so, he urged patron of PDP and Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed to rethink the party's decisions with the BJP.
"If the Government of India continues with same prejudiced approach towards Kashmir, PDP should rethink on its relation with the BJP as continuation in the coalition seems to be doing more damage to both Kashmiris and the party," he said in a written statement on June 17. "The Agenda of Alliance has been just confined to paper and right from the day one there has been no consonance between the functioning of the PDP-BJP coalition government with the said Agenda. Be it return of power projects from NHPC, allocation of resources or distribution of institutions between the regions, there are so many contradictions within the coalition," he further said. Not just this, expressing dismay over, what he called, the Centre's "brazenly apathetic attitude" towards the flood-affected people of Kashmir, Karra also said that the "so-called" flood-relief package announced by the Government of India "amounts to rubbing salt into the wounds of Kashmiris".
On July 12, Karra yet again aired his dissent and went to the extent of saying that there is no perceptible change in the state since change of guard. "Unfortunately, people of the state today seem to have got mired in a dismaying scenario of cynicism and disillusionment as, even after the change of guard, they see nothing moving on the ground on political, security, economic and development fronts," he said in a statement. "It is high time that the state's political executive (read Chief Minister Mufti Sayeed) objectively assess the situation on the ground so that much-needed course corrections could be made in the government functioning without any further delay…While the founding principle and the core agenda of the PDP was based on fighting repression in all its forms and manifestations, ironically, now in an alliance with the BJP, the party today is perceived to have become an anti-thesis of its own political philosophy," the hard hitting statement further said.
Not content with all this, he further said: "People had reposed their faith in the PDP, given the impressive track record of the coalition government headed by Mufti Mohammad Sayeed between 2002 and 2005. At that time, instantaneous relief was visible on the ground on security and development fronts because of the then government's assertive pro-people policies. Unfortunately, this time round, there is no such perceptible change in the situation. In fact, the general perception is that the things are going from bad to worse".
The upshot of his whole statement was that it was time for the PDP leadership to learn from the "systemic downfall of the National Conference (NC), once an unchallenged political force in the state". It was a very significant political statement.
In between on July 7, it was Muzaffar Hussain Baig who expressed the view that Mufti Sayeed stood betrayed and also urged him to be wary of dream merchants and Birbals. He also expressed the view that the coalition government might not survive for a long time. Claiming that the Chief Minister was in a difficult situation, he said that he hoped that the government in Jammu and Kashmir "lasts long successfully". "But it is better to last less than long, if it is not successful and fails the people", he, in fact, said.
He also took a jibe at some ministers in the Coalition Government and said some ministers in coalition had become arrogant and abusive. "I think it is very important that the ministers attend their workers and the common people. There is a complaint, which comes time and again, that some of our ministers have become arrogant. Sometimes they are even abusive. Now, they are in the government because Mufti Sayeed put them in government. Mufti Sahib is a Chief Minister because he has a party, his workers and followers. If a minister insults Mufti Sahib's worker or disappoints him on an issue which they can deliver, where he can provide some relief to that worker, then I think the particular minister is doing a disservice not only to Mufti Sahib but also to the office of the minister. It is also shameful that people tolerate such ministers. The Chief Minister has to be wary of dream merchants and 'Birbals.' You see it is actually the captain who is held responsible for the good and bad game of his team. Sometimes even new comer batsmen have scored centuries. I do not know whether that is the case in the present government. Ultimately, it is the Chief Minister who has to carry the burden. Does he get the requisite support, not only verbal support, but administrative, political, intellectual, diplomatic support from his colleagues - I don't know. But the Chief Minister deserves to get that," Baig further said.
It needs to be noted that he didn't name any minister, but people know who he hinted at. Baig and Karra are not ordinary persons. They are the founder members of the PDP. Hence, when they make statements like they made and that too in public, it means party politics within the BJP has assumed somewhat alarming proportions. It would also be not out of place to mention here that not a single central BJP leader and minister on Sunday joined the Iftaar party hosted by the Chief Minister. This was the first ever Iftaar party which any Chief Minister from Jammu & Kashmir organized in Delhi. |
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