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| NC turns radical, eyes Srinagar LS seat, Anantnag Assembly constituency | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Oct 18: NC president and former J&K Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah, who remained out of picture for almost six months, is back in the news. He is holding discussions with political leaders belonging to the non-PDP and non-BJP outfits, talking to media and also issuing statements on a daily basis. He is targeting Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti more as compared to the BJP, though he is holding the PDP-BJP coalition responsible for the Kashmir unrest. He knows that nothing moves in Kashmir without the help of New Delhi and, hence, somewhat soft on the central leadership.
The last three days have witnessed Farooq Abdullah in a radical mode. He spoke for Pakistan and the Hurriyat Conference and without mincing words termed them "stakeholders". He didn't say a single word against those who created chaos and anarchy in Kashmir and brought everything to a grinding halt there to achieve their sinister goal: Separation from India. On the contrary, he virtually described the struggle as people's struggle. So much so, he demanded release of separatists and their supporters and sided with the stone-pelters.
And Farooq Abdullah, who knows India will not quit Kashmir come what may, has not hardened his stance for nothing. There are reasons behind his radical stance. Two reasons are dominating his thought process. One is his "understanding" that the things in Kashmir have turned against the PDP and it was the best time to avenge the NC's 2014 humiliations and his own defeat in the Lok Sabha election. He wants to restore the ground lost to the PDP by making emotive and provocative and pro-Pakistan and pro-Hurriyat statements - statements which he believe would go well with the gullible Kashmiri Muslims.
The second most important thing that is dominating his thought process is the impending by-elections in the Srinagar and Anantnag Lok Sabha constituencies. Mehbooba Mufti resigned as Ananatnag MP after taking over as Chief Minister of the state and Srinagar seat fell vacant after Tariq Hamid Karra quit the PDP and resigned from the Lok Sabha.
Farooq Abdullah has perhaps come to believe that the NC could win both the seats and rehabilitate him self in New Delhi to play more active role.
What he has been doing for the last three four days needs to be viewed in this context. He wants to kill many birds with one stone. |
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