What makes Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leadership in Jammu and Kashmir to clamour for sympathy for a slain militant? The controversy raked by the senior party leader for giving a second chance for a militant who took up arms against the Indian nation deserves disdain. His advocacy if given the ground situation especially when one is fighting a well trained high-cash-award militant does not work. It is good prophecy for few votes but does politics also follow the rule book? If the public memory goes the slain militant Burhan Wani was instrumental in shooting down a senior army officer who was heading the ambush. The picture of his young daughter wailing and saluting alongwith her mother at the cremation had gone viral at that time. Ask this leader did that militant if asked would have given a second chance to the Indian Army man. No at all. Then why this hue and cry over killing of a militant and why not cry for the two other accomplices of him who were eliminated in the same encounter? Few months back when militants took over the Jammu and Kashmir Entrepreneurship Development Institute (JKEDI) building in Pampore three security men including two young officers were killed to safeguard the government’s building. Did the militants gave second chance to the security men? Now it is the turn of Chief Minister who went public saying security forces were not aware of holed up militants identity. For security agencies he is a militant and they do not want to make friendship with him. Ask these politicians if confronted will these militants whom they call as ‘innocent’ and ‘misguided’ youth give second chance to anybody? If the history of militancy in the State is scanned one will not find any incident of giving second chance on either side. Why these politicians are batting for militants? Is it to keep their fortunes intact? Or do they have some external pressure on them to talk so humane for a militant. Such politicians should not involve security forces in the murky game. They do not come on regional, religion or caste basis to fight militancy and have been laying down their lives for the nation. Respect it and do not demean their sacrifice.
