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| Assessment of Chib about Omar Abdullah is flawed | | | RUSTAM
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Aug 17: Minister for Medical and Technical Education, Youth Services and Sports, R S Chib, has done well to set up a Public Relation Office at R S Pura where he would be listening to the grievances and demands of the people of the border tehsil. Public relation offices are needed at all tehsil headquarters in order to establish contact with the people and listen to their grievances and needs. Hence, the establishment of a Public relation Office at R S Pura is a step in the right direction. However, it is to be seen if R S Chib would honour his commitment that he would be invariably visiting this office to meet people.
What, however, surprising was his assertion that Chief Minister Omar Abdullah was working with a single-minded devotion for the unity and integrity of India. Chib made this loud and ridiculous assertion while addressing people who had gathered at the newly-established public relation office. Whom he tried to fool by making such a ludicrous statement? If he thought he would fool the people who had assembled there, then his assessment about them was wrong like his wrong assessment about Chief Minister Omar Abdullah.
Why did the Medical Education Minister commend the Chief Minister, who is being disliked in Kashmir, his core constituency? This is not a simple question. The learned and shrewd Chib alone can answer this question. As far as the common people in Jammu province are concerned or as far as the keen Omar Abdullah-watchers are concerned, their assessment about the Chief Minister is altogether different. They are of the view, and very rightly, that the Chief Minister has been, instead of strengthening the center-state relations, political and constitutional bonds, striving to the hilt to unsettle the settled issue of Jammu and Kashmir even since January 5, 2008, when he with the support of the Congress party took over as Chief Minister of the terrorist and separatist-infested state.
Whatever the Medical Education Minister may say to please his master, the fact of the matter is that the Chief Minister has further complicated the already rather complex situation in the state by repeatedly saying that Jammu and Kashmir is a political problem and the same could be resolved by granting to the state greater autonomy, bordering on virtual sovereignty, and that no economic or employment is the solution to the "political problem" confronting the state.
It appears R S Chib has not listened to what the Chief Minister said on the eve of the Independence Day and on the Independence Day. On both occasions, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah questioned the very relationship between Jammu and Kashmir and New Delhi and boasted that he was the only Chief Minister who was working overtime to render the Armed Forces Special Powers Act ineffective for all practical purposes, thus directly demoralizing the security forces in the state. The Chief Minister, it needs to be emphasized, made many more controversial statements, besides raking up the issue of the Kashmir issue, as also the issue of the AFSPA, while addressing the people of the state on August 14 and 15.
The Medical Education Minister would be well-advised to have a glance at the newspapers covering the Chief Minister's August 14 and August 15 speeches. He simply has to steal a few moments from his very busy schedule to have a cursory glance at the Chief Minister's speeches and draw conclusion. Everyone knows that Medical Education Minister is a busy man, as he is required to inaugurate this and that and visit hospitals everyday to not only see if things are working smoothly there and to his satisfaction, but also to enquire about the health of Syed Ali Shah Geelani at the Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Soura, though it is not under the state government. This medical institute is run by a trust.
The Medical Education Minister should avoid making statements which have all the ingredients of irritating the people of Jammu province and people across the country. They are for the state's full integration into India, and not for greater autonomy for the state. They have made supreme sacrifices in the state to preserve the Indian sovereignty in Jammu and Kashmir and defeat communal forces in the Valley. If R S Chib is not prepared to recognize these sacrifices, he should at least follow in the footsteps of the late Indira Gandhi who took stern action against Sheikh Abdullah and Farooq Abdullah when she felt that things were going out of control or when she felt that the Sheikh and his son were crossing the line by giving communal orientation to the state polity. He should also remember that the people of Jammu can do with the discriminatory policies of the state government, but they are not prepared to tolerate any move that is aimed at driving them away from the country's mainstream. |
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