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| Of CM’s Advisor and his deserted Church Lane office | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Aug 13: The Chief Minister’s Advisor, Mubarak Gul is no longer available in Chief Minister’s Private Office, Church Lane, Srinagar where he was supposed to hear public grievances every Monday to Friday from 9.30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Gul does not draw any salary/remuneration for the assignment as advisor to Chief Minister. This may be one of the reasons for staying away from the Church Lane office. However, people close to National Conference have different reasons for Gul’s reluctance to attend the office.
On August 5, the Chief Minister was heckled by the people at Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) Soura. He had gone there to `reach’ the people. New Delhi had urged him to come out to reach the people directly. However, Omar chose a wrong place for initiating the process. Or, to put it plainly he reached the wrong people.
Omar Abdullah does not understand the Kashmiri psyche. He was repeatedly admitted his helplessness during the past three months. His Advisor, Mubarak Gul, on the other hand is a politician and claims to have his hands on the pulse of Kashmiris. How did he allow the Chief Minister to visit a wrong place at a wrong time on August 5?
But then the poor Advisor is not to be blamed. He too went to a wrong spot on that fateful day. In connection with New Delhi’s `reach the people programme’ Gul visited the Bone and Joint Hospital, Barzulla. He too was heckled. He too found himself at a wrong place at a wrong time.
A visibly perturbed Ali Muhammad, who was in the hospital to take care of his wounded relative ridiculed Gul for his `shamelessness’. “He had come to rub salt into our wounds. He received a lesson of his life today”, he said.
Kashmir is passing through a critical phase. All pro-Indian organizations have gone into hiding for obvious reasons. While the leaders have either flown to Jammu or Delhi, the cadres at the grass root level have been left to fend for themselves. It, therefore, is impossible, rather dangerous for Gul to remain present in his office to hear woes of people. He knows people will not come to his office and if at all they come, the office will prove his Waterloo.
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