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| NC turns pro-Pak, hits India hard | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 2: When Farooq Abdullah ruled Jammu & Kashmir as Chief Minister for three terms and even when he served as Union Minister in the UPA Government, he only rarely tinkered with the idea of retrieving Pakistan-occupied-Jammu & Kashmir (poJK). He, however, remained on many other controversial issues but refrained from crossing the red line.
But ever since Farooq Abdullah and Omar Abdullah are out-of-power, they have been struggling to remain relevant and brazenly mouthing controversial statements one after the other.
Last week Farooq Abdullah made headlines after he dared PM Narendra Modi to reclaim PoJK. Addressing party workers in Kishtwar, Jammu, Abdullah had said: "Arre tumahare baap ka hai? Tumahare paas wo taqat hai kit um wo hissa (poJK) vapas le sako" (Is it the property of your forefathers? You don't have the power to take the territory back). "they say in Parliament and thee is a resolution that PoK is India's territory," he had also said, and added that "it (Kashmir) is not the personnel property of India so that it could make a claim over it like an inherited property of forefathers".
Following in the footsteps of his father, working president of the NC Omar Abdullah on Thursday raked up another controversy by claiming that PM Modi's ministers were provoking Pakistan t launch terror attacks like in Jammu & Kashmir's Nagrota town where seven soldiers were killed in Tuesaday.
"The Nagrota attack is the result of provocative statements made by various ministers against Pakistan," Omar Abdullah said on the sidelines of party programme in Anantnag district, Kashmir. He said he disapproved of Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar's statement that Indiadidn't want war with Pakistan "but if someone looks at the country with evil eye, we will gouge his eyes out and put them back in his hand".
He said if such a statement is made by the Defence Minister then "we should expect attacks like Nagrota".
He further said Modi's claim that demonetisation would end terrorism in the country was another reason for terror attacks being stepped up in Jammu & Kashmir.
The BJP immediately lashed out at him with party spokesperson GVL Narasimha Rao saying Omar's statement was "completely irresponsible."
Another BJP spokesperson Siddharth Nath Singh called the statement "outlandish", adding that the NC leader was "conveniently" trying to put the blame for the Nagrota attack on Indian leaders, especially the Defence Minister.
Even Dr Farooq Abdullah had received brickbats for questioning India's legal right on Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
The BJP spokesperson had made it clear, "PoJK is an integral part of India. Parliament has passed a resolution regarding this. Farooq Abdullah has also affirmed his faith in the resolution while speaking in Parliament. But, now we don't understand why is he singing a different tune".
A section in the BJP even went on to say that "Farooq Abdullah has insulted all those who sacrificed their lives for Kashmir".
Farooq Abdullah had even claimed, "Pakistan is one of the stakeholders of the Kashmir issue, which even India has accepted."
Questioning Modi government's Pakistan policy and strategy to deal with dissent in the Valley Farooq Abdullah had also stated, "Jammu & Kashmir had acceded to India on three subjects of defence, foreign affairs and communication, which have been re emphasized by the former Sadr-e-Riyasat Karan Singh in Parliament recently". |
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