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| Fearing defeat, Farooq questions timing of election | | By-poll in Anantnag | | Early Times Report
jammu, June 2: Ever since May 25, when the budget session of the J&K legislature commenced, the opposition NC has been under sharp attack. It is the PDP president and J&K Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti who has taken upon herself the task of exposing the NC and its leadership. The last couple of days witnessed Mehbooba Mufti attacking NC working president and Leader of opposition in the Assembly Omar Abdullah, who had unleashed a no-holds-barred propaganda campaign against her and her government to create an impression in the Valley that her government was, in fact, the BJP-RSS government and that she, in alliance with the Sangh Parivar, was conspiring against the state's special status and Muslim-majority character of Kashmir - a wild allegation.
Mehbooba not only countered what she called the NC's false charge that she conspired against Kashmiri cause for the sake of power by invoking the PDP-BJP agenda of alliance, but also called the Omar's bluff saying that it was the NC and Congress which rigged the 1987 assembly elections and created conditions conducive for the emergence of militant movement in the Valley but also exposed him saying that it was his grandfather Sheikh Abdullah who set up the first Sainik Colony in Jammu more that three decades ago. The agenda of alliance contains almost everything that the PDP's election manifesto contained. It promised that the state could get a dispensation that could be more autonomous.
The manner in which Mehbooba Mufti called the Omar Abdullah's bluff has further made the NC more unpopular in the Valley and it is this exposure and the growing unpopularity that has unnerved the NC president Farooq Abdullah, who on Wednesday questioned the timing of by-poll in the Anantnag Assembly constituency and also claimed that the election would not be free and fair.
Farooq Abdullah voiced apprehensions over fairness of the upcoming by-poll in Anantnag Assembly constituency from where Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti is contesting and questioned its timing as it coincides with the holy month of Ramzan. "The elections are being held when there is the month of Ramadhan, when people here fast. And on the polling day is the anniversary of a religious leader. Is this right? Ask this to those who are the owners of the Election Commission. Do they do justice with the people of J&K," he said.
Referring to the scheduled June 19 Assembly by-election, he further reportedly said: "I have no hopes that they will conduct an honest election in Anantnag because when they postponed the elections, they said the situation was not good and they cannot take place. Tell me, is the situation any better today?"
How could Farooq Abdullah raise his finger against the election commission of India when everyone in the world knows that his late father Sheikh Abdullah and he himself were known for their electoral malpractices? In 1951, his father rigged the elections wholesale and the result was that almost all the NC candidates all across the state were elected unopposed to the Constituent-cum-Legislative Assembly. Similarly, in 1987, Farooq Abdullah and the Congress worked in tandem to subvert the electoral exercise to win the assembly elections.
The fact of the matter is that Farooq Abdullah knows that the NC candidate would lose the election and, hence, his opposition to the election commission and Ramadan argument. It appears the fear of defeat has up set Farooq Abdullah & Co. |
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