Though standards of human understandabilities are expected to prompt the leader of incumbent popular government to learn from the mistakes and failures of his/her predecessors but in Jammu & Kashmir the leaders of successive popular governments have always blame their predecessors for their own failure. Unfortunately the incumbent Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti too blames her successor Omar Abdullah for the loss of lives caused by unrest last as she has went on record to say that failure of Omar Abdullah in handling the unrest in 2010 led to unrest in 2016. Knowing that street protests are turning violent and result in deaths of youth, the incumbent Chief Minister should have taken all measures for putting the police,paramilitaries and even army in a state of preparedness to face the challenges of crowd control policing thrown up by spontaneous street protests thrice since 2008. Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti and her some ministerial colleagues blamed former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah for allowing the introduction of pellet guns after summer unrest in the year 2008 but neither the incumbent Chief Minister nor her ministerial colleagues muster the courage to admit the fact that Omar Abdullah allowed the introduction of pellet guns in the state but did not allow police and paramilitaries to used the same in crowd control policing. So instead of raising questions over the failures of the previous Omar Abdullah led NC-Congress coalition government in dousing flames during summer unrest in the year 2010 , better it would have been for the Chief Minister to ponder over the failures of her own government during last year’s unrest in Kashmir.
Addressing the crisis of street violence with some remedial measures but not the blame game politics is the responsibility of both senior Abdullah and the incumbent Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti keeping in view the importance of security of the life and property of people.
Interestingly the remarks of the incumbent Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti have come in response to the remarks of the Chief Minister who Friday this week said “Mufti government was financing stone-pelting”. Though National Conference President too was required to demonstrate political wisdom demanding his high political stature and desist from making childish remarks over the very sensitive issue of stone pelting now directly influencing the lives of youth but Mehbooba Mufti as the incumbent Chief Minister too has a moral and political obligation not to trigger a row by issuing a counter offensive remark against senior Abdullah. By all standards of political and moral standards of understandabilities both Mehbooba and Abdullah are not at liberty to engage in a war of words over the stone pelting issue which has now become the cause of deaths of the innocent youth in strife torn Kashmir valley. Situation demands that both senior Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti debate the remedial measures instead of engaging themselves in a war of words just to further the causes of provocation the time when street violence is taking a very dangerous turn in Kashmir valley. Addressing the crisis of street violence with some remedial measures but not the blame game politics is the responsibility of both senior Abdullah and the incumbent Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti keeping in view the importance of security of the life and property of people.