Claims – yes, just claims, pure and simple – are the flowers
adorning the personality of our leaders, whether government, religious or other
social leaders, all make claims, tall and stout.
Take the government, the recent ‘hurling of chairs session’
in the Assembly is the most fatuous show on our earth. MLAs crowing at each
other like cocks! If they fight like monkeys – their ancestors – means they
have not developed into homo sapiens. Then, how can they claim, or campaign, we
are the best option for the voters? If your leaders present you in the media as
jokers devoid of sanity, how can they claim, they are even leaders?
And, here is the healthy Health Minister, who disappears
like ice in boiling water when accused, and resurfaces like Haley’s Comet after
a week, claiming: “A big conspiracy has been hatched against me....”! (And, we
fools are going to believe him, aren’t?)And, yet he claimed the post of Health
Minister!
Another Goolmaal is here, army claims: we are the
most talented in the field and fully armed with the modern technologies, and
yet, they cannot contain a few hundred militants who do not even know what
technology is! What an irony? It makes me suspicious. Are they (army) too part
of the militancy? Or, are they faking encounters to add weight to their
opposition against withdrawal of troops or AFSPA?
“Reaching people, changing lives” is the slogan (claim) of
our current government – UPA (Unproductive Alliance!). And, where their brakes
fail while ‘reaching people’ is Kashmiri separatist leadership – separate even
from their separatist philosophy! And, what have they changed? Only their vote
manifestoes! And, cabinet ministers! Or, roads, railways and bridges! And,
definitely luck of their kin by offering them all they need. And, of those who
pay-in-advance! (You remember Mushtaq Peer!)
Here is a very tall one, taller than the tallest thing on
the land: India is the largest democracy in the world – claimers’ mouth opens
wide as Pacific when they chant it: India gives its people Freedom of Speech.
And, yet detains some even on the petty issue of anti-Valentine’s Day campaign,
and closes cases of fake encounters! How sweet!
Now, take the separatists, countless in number, are not even
united against the common cause. Although, they claim night and day, from
Sunday to Monday, that they are working for the unity of all factions! Being
only a nuisance in the noses of the mainstream, have not even got a few of
their demands fulfilled. Nor they seem to tread the Ghandiji’s path, nor of
Prophet Muhammad’s (PBUH). They seem to work only for the supremacy of their
own factions. If that was not, they would not be divided into factions? And,
the struggle has become only honey for government employees because they get
some free days to linger whole days in their cosy beds. Jay ho, hartals!
And the irony is that they have not been able to involve whole society into the
struggle, and claim “all are we”!
So, between the corrupt leaders and hartals, “Aam
Aadmi Ka Anchaar” is squeezed, and sold by our dear leaders. Hum, it’s yummy! Pity
common man is confounded, and cannot decide whom to follow. What he does is, he
listens to his desires and acts as per Pleasure Principle (very detrimental for
Kashmir?).
In short, the leadership in Kashmir is, on one side greedy
and selfish, and on the other, inexperienced and dull. We have to, therefore,
wait and see the troubles, we have here in the soil and the hills, in towns and
villages, in fields and forests, mounting and cordoning us from all sides.
by Sameer Ahmad
Samlos928@gmail.com