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| Why violence remains confined to areas represented by NC in Assembly ? | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, June 15 :-In the absence of Chief Minister,Omar Abdullah, there is nobody in Srinagar from the mainstream political stream who can counter the campaign launched by the separatists. The Chief Minister is holidaying in Himachal Pradesh and has even gone to Pangong lake in Ladakh which has been already thrown open to trekkers and tourists who visit the land of lamas for adventure.
Omar has been out of the state for the last over five days and in his absence there is nobody who has the authority to lead a campaign against the separatists.The result is that the Hurriyat (G) Chief,Syed Ali Shah Geelani's writ runs large.What is surprising and intriguing is that the protest demonstrations and stone pelting incidents in Srinagar remain usually confined to the Assembly constituencies represented in the legislature by the National Conference leaders.
Senior police officers confirmed that stone pelting incidents and protest demonstrations remain usually confined to Idgah,Khanyar,Habbakadal,Amirakadal,Batamaloo and parts of Zadibal and Sonawar constituencies which are represented by the National Conference in the Assembly.They said that it is not that the National Conference leaders and activists have been inciting trouble but they lack the much needed will and the support of people for blunting the campaign launched by Geelani and others. Does it mean that those elected to the Assembly from these trouble-torn constituencies lack peoples' support ?If it is so does it mean that they have won the 2008 or earlier polls because of rigging and manipulation ?And this impr ession can be diluted if the legislators belonging to National Conference,elected from atleast six constituencies in Srinagar city,come out of their hibernation and turn the tide against the separatists.
These police officers expressed dismay over the way the national Conference leaders simply continued to hold the police and the security forces responsible for the mishandling of the situation.One senior police officer said "we have observed utmost restraint even in the face of severe provocation from the groups of people shouting anti-Government slogans and indulging in stone pelting."
He said that a political vacuum exists in Kashmir and even in the absence of the Chief Minister the National Conference president, Dr Farooq Abdullah, should have t ried to defuse the crisis in Srinagar.He could have done it as one of the tallest political figure in the state and as a union Minister. But Farooq Abdullah preferred to spend a day or two in Ladakh and fly back to Delhi.
Another police official said that there has been no press statements from any top leader belonging to the ruling coalition in which the propaganda launched by the separatists could have been given a lie.He said the ruling alliance treats the current turmoil in Kashmir as mere law and order problem that requires tactful handling by the police and the paramilitary forces.He said "whatever is happening in Kashmir is not a mere law and order problem but the outcome of some political malady that can be treated only by a sustained political campaign launched by the ruling alliance." He said that if the Prime Minister has announced,on more than one occasion,that he was ready to hold talks with all those who shun violence why "he does not resume dialogue with the Hurriyat leaders and with those belonging to other separatist groups who have not been holding guns in their hands ? "He said if the talks with the separatists were resumed it could keep them engaged in an exercise that may not allow them much time inciting people to violence.
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