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| ‘An era broken bones, amputated limbs and bruised bodies’ | | 19-month NC-Cong rule | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Aug 27: Omar led coalition has completed nineteen months in office. Apart from giving a new look to roads in Jammu and Srinagar cities in the initial days of the regime, the coalition government has failed on all other fronts.
The much hyped employment package was unveiled by the Chief Minister on the 104 birth anniversary of Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah. The Chief Minister intends to address what he called a gigantic unemployment problem in a principled manner. However, the package, Sher-i-Kashmir Employment and Welfare Programme for Youth (SKEWPY) evoked mixed reaction. The unemployed youth rejected it as a cruel joke cracked by the Chief Minister in the name of voluntary service allowance. Shockingly the package has not taken off yet.
Immediately after assuming office, the chief minister promised a clean administration. But at the end of the year he summed up the administration `Rotten to the roots'. Strangely enough Omar did not take any measures to put the derailed administration back on rails. How many corrupt officials were taken to task? What happened to dead wood in the administration? However, after nineteen months in office, Omar realized the administration had to be reshuffled. Yesterday, the cabinet ordered massive reshuffle in the administration. As they say `new broom sweep clean' the news officers would try their best to deliver. But the problem is not as simple as it appears.
According to people in Down Town Srinagar, Omar regime has been an era of broken limbs, amputated hands, damaged eyes and bruised bodies. An elderly man also adds another word; "broken panes."
The Chief Minister also failed on the human rights front. Like his predecessors he ordered probes into abuses and that is it. Omar Abdullah's government has been no different. If DNA fudging took place in Dr Farooq's regime, forensic evidence was tampered in Shopian case. But that is an old story now. A few days ago, Chief Minister's advisor, Mubarak Gul assured "killers of innocent youth" of stern action. Gul knows the killers. Can he punish them?
"AFSPA would go in my regime", Omar said after a few days of assuming office. However, since then he has publicly backed out of his promise. Last year. Omar could not tell the people that AFSPA was needed. His Law Minister, Ali Muhammad Sagar issued a statement saying AFSPA would remain in force until it is needed. And last week, Omar made a similar statement in Jammu.
Sixty-five persons have been killed by bullets and smoke canisters across Kashmir. A few of them including 9-year-old Sareer of Batmaloo succumbed to torture. Omar's `APR' not only reflects his inability to run the state but is reddened with blood. The Chief Minister's advisor talks of action against the killers. Whose blood has stained Omar's APR? Has Gul any answers? |
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