Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 11: Recalling the saying of former late Prime Minister, Bakshi Ghulam Mohamad that nobody is anybody’s friend in politics, the former Union Minister and M.L.A , Prof. Chaman Lal Gupta has termed the recent statement of Congress leader, Rahul Gandhi that he is the “friend and supporter of Omar Abdullah” as absurd. It cannot meet the test of ground situation, he added.
In his comments on the statement of Rahul, Prof. Gupta pointed out that there is vast difference in the political philosophy of the National Conference and that of the Congress. While the National Conference takes it as Kashmir dispute and wanted its political solution through the reversal of the integration process to Pre 1953 status of the State under the slogan of Autonomy, the Congress being a National Party, can hardly afford to go with such a controversial demand. Hence how Rahul Gandhi can be the supporter of Omar Abdullah, he questioned.
Prof. Gupta also observed that the present coalition of the Congress-NC, is just a marriage of convenience. Both these parties had contested the last Assembly elections with their quite different slogans and manifestoes. Amazingly the coalition was formed even without any Common Minimum Programme. The results are obvious and bickering between the two partners.
The protests by the village leaders at the political rally of Rahul Gandhi at Jammu, was one of the outcome of the failure of the Congress to keep up their promises, which were obviously due to the outlook of the leadership of the NC. It was just a symbol of the malady, he added.
Prof. Gupta recalled that there cannot be a bigger friendship than it was between the founder of the NC, Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah and the Congress stalwart, Jawahar Lal Nehru. But it was a part of the sad history that Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah had to face longest years of be-wilderness during his friend’s era, viz Nehru.
He advised both the young leaders, Rahul Gandhi and Omar Abdullah, to be realistic in their utterances as the history may not repeat.
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