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| What is common between Rahul Gandhi and Omar Abdullah? | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Feb 20: What is common in Omar Abdullah, former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, and Rahul Gandhi, vice president All India Congress? If the two belong to top political parties that is history. If the father and the grandfather of Rahul Gandhi and Omar Abdullah have been great political leaders, that is part of history. If Omar's Grandfather and father happened to be Chief Ministers and Rahul Gandhi's grandmother and Father were Prime Ministers, it is part of history.
Then what binds the two politicians together. It is their habit of commenting or voicing their feelings on issues and non-issues. While Omar Abdullah makes use of Twitter Rahul Gandhi is there to issue sermons on issues and non-issues.
Another thing that binds Omar with Rahul Gandhi is that the two cannot ignore to comment on matters that is related to the BJP. Omar Abdullah has another political foe in Jammu and Kashmir and hence he has to comment on the activities, on decisions on lack of decisions of the PDP.
For Rahul Gandhi there is no case of sedition against the President of the JNU students Union. Rahul Gandhi is soft towards Afzal Guru who was executed a convict of the Parliament attack. His execution took place when the Congress was in power in the Centre. Does Rahul Gandhi remember it? Perhaps not. Had he been aware of the execution of Guru when the party, he belongs to, was in power in the Centre he would not have sympathized with Prof. SAR Geelani who has been sent to judicial custody on charges of having held a pro-Guru conference in the Press Club of India.
Omar Abdullah seems to be cynical about the Human Resource Development Ministry's directive to hoist the national flag in all Central Universities in the country.
Reacting to the decision taken on Thursday at the meeting of Vice Chancellors of Central Universities chaired by HRD Minister Smriti Irani, Omar said on his Twitter handle: "If hoisting the flag was all it took to address feelings of alienation, problems of Kashmir and North East would have been solved decades ago."
Omar, however, said he was not against the decision as it looked like an innovative one to address separatist sentiments being voiced in various universities.
"I'm all for innovative solutions but let's not kid ourselves that slogans heard in JNU or Jadavpur will disappear with this HRD order," he said in another tweet.
Omar Abdullah is not totally wrong. When years ago the Government made it mandatory for the owners of cinema halls that they should play national anthem at the end of the movie it generated a lot of heat when majority of cinegoers used to forcibly open the gates and leave the halls.
When the separatists have not been silenced by bullets or by lockups or house arrests how can hoisting national flag silence them? This is the question Omar should have asked.
Another thing that binds Omar with Rahul Gandhi is the way they cherish berating the BJP even for some good decisions or people-friendly schemes. Omar has an added responsibility of chastising the PDP. Well one thing that differentiates the two, Rahul and Omar, is the latter's wavering political idea. He joined the BJP led Government in the Centre in 1999-2000 when Atal Behari was the Prime Minister. Even Farooq Abdullah, who headed the Government in Jammu and Kashmir, had cordial ties with the BJP Government in the Centre.
The other day Farooq Abdullah had expressed his desire that he was ready to form a coalition Government in alliance with the BJP but he retracted because of pressure mounted on him by Omar Abdullah. Farooq wanted to join hands with BJP to keep his main political foe the PDP out of power. But Rahul has never ever thought of associating his party with the BJP.
The tiff rather the political differences between the Congress and the BJP at the national level is matched by deep political differences and mistrust between the National Conference and the PDP. At one stage soon after the 2014 Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad had mooted an idea of forming a grand alliance of the Congress and the National Conference for supporting the PDP Government. Farooq Abdullah did not support the idea because he did not want the PDP to win power.
Rahul Gandhi and Omar Abdullah have a friendly bond which allowed Omar Abdullah to complete six-year term for the Government he had headed in alliance with the Congress despite demand for change of leadership in Kashmir. Rahul Gandhi supported Omar Abdullah which helped him to remain Chief Minister for six years. |
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