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| Frustrated Omar questions Accession | | Kashmir is not J&K! | | Early Times Report
jammu, Feb 25: The possibility of a snap poll in the State has upset and rattled NC working president Omar Abdullah, who is known more for his laughable and ridiculous tweets than anything positive. He knows that if elections were held today, the NC would draw a blank in the Valley. Leave aside Jammu and Ladakh, where the NC has little or no say. Also leave aside the victory of the NC in a couple of Jammu constituencies because it won only by default. People know how the NC won from the Jammu's two Assembly constituencies.
Why the NC, which could only win 11 seats in the last Assembly elections from the Valley, would suffer major reverses in Kashmir? Why because the NC failed to discharge its obligations as an opposition party towards the State and it people. It only remained busy in playing petty games and writing tweets. The most important factor that will work against the NC will be the sympathy factor.
PDP president Mehbooba Mufti, if she finally says no to the BJP and decides to seek a fresh mandate from the people, especially people of Kashmir (which is likely to happen), she will turn tables on Farooq Abdullah-Omar Abdullah duo. She will tell the people that she kicked away the coveted office of Chief Minister for the Kashmiri cause or for the vision of her late father. Emotional and gullible as they are, the Kashmiri Muslims will turn towards her and her party and the result would a massive and humiliating defeat of the NC. Omar Abdullah, who himself lost the election from one Assembly segment and won from another by a slender margin of about 100 votes, knows the ground situation in the Valley as well as Mehbooba Mufti's political abilities and capabilities.
That's the reason that he on Wednesday questioned the accession of J&K with India and demanded that J&K be granted autonomy to the extent that it will be virtually independent of India and New Delhi will have jurisdiction only over defence, foreign affairs and communication. He questioned the accession while addressing party workers on the first Death Anniversary of the party's former General Secretary Sheikh Nazir.
His ridiculous suggestion that the accession of the State with India was limited and conditional was his desperate attempt to establish chord with the Kashmiri Muslims. They are unlikely to oblige the Abdullahs. For, they know that they, like the BJP, have no ideology and that they have repeatedly compromised their ideology to enjoy power in the State as well as at the Centre. Who doesn't know that the NC shared power with the Congress in the State and with the BJP at the Centre?
And by the way who is the NC to speak for and on behalf of the people of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh? The NC does not represent Jammu and Ladakh. But more than that, it doesn't represent even Kashmir, as its support-base has dwindled and dwindled considerably. Indeed, a party that could get only 11 per cent votes and that, too, when it contested the last Lok Sabha elections in alliance with the Congress, can't speak for the entire State. Besides, the J&K Constitution and the Indian Constitution unambiguously say that J&K was, is and shall ever remain an integral part of India.
But more than that, there is the Indian nation which is very much there to take care of persons who threaten national unity. What has been happening in the country in the wake of anti-India events organized at JNU in Delhi is a proof that the nation is seething with anger and demanding stringent action against those organized these events and those who supported it. |
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