We have ‘mainstreamists’, separatists, concessionists,
and terrorists but hardly nationalists. So who should
India speak to for sanity in Kashmir?
DOST KHAN
JAMMU: Who do Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad, Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti and National Conference
Working President Omar Abdullah, least to speak of P Chidambaram, Sitaram Yachury, Asaduddin Owaisi and herd of their likes across the country, want Prime Minister Narendra Modi should speak within Kashmir to end the 32-day Sangbaz (stonepelting) agitation, post elimination of Lashker terrorist Burhan Wani? Should the Prime Minister speak to Hurriyat hawk Syed Ali Shah Geelani, who won’t settle for anything less than Kashmir’s accession with Pakistan; Mirwaiz Umar, who is confused between Azadi and Pakistan or Yasin Malik, the
terrorist turned activist, who sits with and subscribes to what world’s most wanted terrorist Hafiz Saeed wants? Or, should Modi speak to ten-year old Sangbaz on Srinagar lanes, who takes pride in slapping a 60-year old Kashmiri for venturing out in his car to get medicines,
as moving on streets of the Valley is exclusive domain of stone-pelters? Will Geelani, Mirwaiz, Malik or the street urchins speak reconciliation when their entire terror edifice stands on confrontation? Before issuing sermons from their heavily guarded official residences, with a sinister motivation of igniting further the trouble, shouldn’t the votaries of ‘talks with all stake-holders’, who have held
constitutional positions in Jammu and Kashmir, play their pro-active role in bringing the ‘innocent’ stone-pelters and ‘oppressed’ Kashmiri leaders on negotiation table to restore peace in the Valley? Or, if they claim to have their strong presence in Kashmir, which they are supposed to have given the support during successive elections, shouldn’t they motivate their cadre to counter those responsible
for perpetual shutdown and violence, now for a month? Why shouldn’t Ghulam Nabi Azad be seen in Srinagar to be with suffering masses and help restore sanity? After all he has got elected to Rajya Sabha after giving a written-apology over the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru to seek the crucial and decisive vote of Er Rasheed. Why don’t Ghulam Nabi Azad’s supporters resist the growing intolerance, radicalisation and anti-India protests, which have now spread to his home town of Doda as well? After all Congress too
have had its pound of flesh in the Assembly elections in the areas which are presently humming with anti-India slogans. Why shouldn’t Farooq Abdullah end his London sojourn to be with the people who elected him Chief Minister several times, pre and post era of errorism? Why shouldn’t National Conference Working President Omar Abdullah have led his handful supporters, who showed their presence outside Srinagar party headquarters to demonstrate solidarity with the suffering people in Srinagar? Where are the supporters and workers who bestowed 15 MLAs to National Conference in the Assembly elections? They could be a potential counter to handful of separatists and their Sangbaz squad. Has Farooq Abdullah and Omar Abdullah forgotten how Sheikh Abdullah mobolised and mesmerised lakhs of people
in Lal Chowk Srinagar on 26th February 1975, just a day after taking over as Chief Minister of the State in the wake of Indira-Sheikh Accord. They (huge sea of people) were the same lot who had observed complete shut-down, a day earlier, on the call of Pakistan Prime
Minister Zulfkar Ali Bhutto in protest against the Sheikh’s burying plebiscite. The towering six and half feet leader had the capacity and guts to challenge Pakistan from rampant of Lal Chowk with people turning hysteric on roars of their lion. Why should Sheikh’s son and grand-son look dwarf before a few timid Pakistan sponsored separatists, who have been exploiting their co-religionists and brethren to further the agenda of a rogue nation in India’s backyards? Why should the Chief Minister of Kashmir’s premier ruling PDP be seen grappling with the situation lonely with no back-up from the cadre, which gave her party record number of seats in 2014 Lok Sabha and Assembly elections? The scene of turbulence remains PDP’s strong bastion of south Kashmir. If the party can’t mobolise support with 28 members in the Assembly, do the Chief Minister or her vocal leaders, especially the MPs, have any moral right to ask Narendra Modi to speak to the stakeholders. Unfortunately, Kashmir of today sans leaders; has enriched itself with India baiters, mostly during the past nearly twenty seven years. We have ‘mainstreamists’, separatists, concessionists and terrorists but hardly nationalists. So who should India speak to for sanity in Kashmir?
