ET Report
jammu, Mar 11: Former J&K Chief Minister and president of the "unpopular" and comprehensively defeated NC, Farooq Abdullah, has turned insensitive and insensitive to the extent that he visited Udhampur on Thursday only to rub salt on the wounds of the martyrs' families. Or should it be presumed that he has lost his way? It must remain a matter of shame for those who do not respect those who lay down their lives happily for the cause of the nation and for securing our life.
Farooq Abdullah claimed that he visited Udhampur to remember the contribution of martyr Captain Tushar Mahajan, but what he did there was exactly the opposite. After visiting the residence of Captain Tushar Mahajan, who along with another Captain and three soldiers, sacrificed their precious lives for the nation, Farooq Abdullah talked to reporters and demanded revocation of the AFSPA.
On the one hand, he urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar to rename the Udhampur Railway Station as Captain Tushar Mahajan Railway Station and, on the other, outraged the sensitivities of the family of Tushar Mahajan and families of other martyrs by demanding revoking of the AFSPA.
"I feel that AFSPA should be withdrawn but depending upon the situation and places where the Act is not required," he told media persons, and added that it should be withdrawn from the areas, where peace has returned and its imposition was no longer required there.
It was not an occasion to demand revocation of the AFSPA, which is needed the most by the armed forces involved in anti-insurgency operations in the State, but Farooq Abdullah considered it necessary to speak on the AFSPA knowing it well that the situation in Kashmir and other parts of the State, including Kathua, Samba, and Udhampur districts, has deteriorated and Kashmir is witnessing terror attacks on almost daily basis. It was time for him to express grave concern over the deteriorating situation in the State, but he chose otherwise and spoke the language of Pakistan and Kashmiri separatists.
It is obvious that Farooq Abdullah had not gone to Udhampur to condole the heroic death of Captain Tushar Mahajan. He had gone there to rub salt on the wounds of his family. Perhaps, it was his desperate attempt to strike a chord with the Kashmiri constituency, which has virtually abandoned the NC. |
