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| Hurl a shoe to have date with Chief Minister | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Aug 18: If you cannot get permission to meet Chief Minister,Omar Abdullah,you no longer have to run after him or his advisers.What you have to do is to hurl your shoe on him and within a day or two he will pardon you.He will direct the police to release you.He will invite you to his residence and offer you a cup of tea and your problem will be solved.But the only condition is that when you hurl the shoes it should not hit him,it should fly like a missile over his head and shoulders as was the case in the Bakshi stadium.
But if you think that you can have a date with Omar Abdullah if you hurl a stone on him you are mistaken.During the last 68 days of violence in Kashmir Omar has been very harsh against those indulging in stone throwing incidents.And even when Abdul Ahad Jan hurled his shoes on the Chief Minister,during the Independence day function in the Bakshi stadium in Srinagar on Sunday,he neither was enragd nor lost his cool.Instead he exhorted people that they should throw shoes but not the stones. You can mark the excitement on the fac of Jan when he was asked by Omar to sit close to him in the chair.Jan's eyes were moist with either regrets or with excitement.
There are people who feel amazed and intrigued over the gesture that Omar Abdullah showed by pardoning Abdul Ahad Jan. Yes, possibly Omar Abdullah is grateful to Jan for having enabled him(Omar)to join the club of elites who had been greeted by shoe hurling.They included the American and the Chinese Pr esidents and the Indian Union Home Minister.For his entry into the club of elites Omar's father, Dr Farooq Abdullah,feels proud of his son's feat.
Omar has shown the way for all those who feel the weight of injustice. They can hurl their shoes on ministers and bureaucrats who have been perpetuating injustice against them. Normally it takes days together for a common man to meet a minister if he does not have a source to help him.Omar has shown him the way.He could hurl his shoe on the minister's residence and he will be shown in.She can hurl her sandal on the minister who will himself come forward for meeting such a daring damsel.
And there are over five lakh educated youth registered in the state's employment exchanges. They can form an association and during their protest rallies hurl shoes and sandals on the police.They will not only be pardoned but be given jobs.Here the policemen need not cane charge of teargas the protesters because if the men of the police simply collect shoes and sandals hurled on them they will have not to purchase shoes and slippers for their family members for years together.
Once the trend catches up the shoes sellers in Kashmir will have a roaring business.And these very people will vote for Omar in the next election because they will find in him a saviour for boosting their trade when it had witnessed a slump bcause of drop in the tourist traffic to the valley.(eom)
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