Actions of the Chief Minister don’t match with words of sympathy Chief Minister has shown over the killing of civilians in South Kashmir’s Shopian district. While the entire Kashmir was mourning the killing of not only civilians but also the militants including an Assistant Professor of Kashmir University who had took to militancy just two days back, the Chief Minister as usual inspect the guard of honour at a conventional police parade at civil secretariat Srinagar. Had the Chief Minister had called off the conventional salute at the police parade and other celebrations on the opening day of the civil secretariat in Srinagar just to show solidarity with the shell shocked bereaved families and shell shocked populations in Kashmir, it would have sent out a message that Chief Minister and her elected government stands in state of mourning with the people whose loved ones have been killed in crowd control policing in the post gunfight clashes in Shopian areas. However ill fated people of Kashmir know that Chief Minister can’t muster the courage to stand by the side of her people in presence of a hostile ally like BJP stooping down too low to politics over even the rape and murder of an eight year old minor muslim bakerwal girl in Kathua district. Instead of asking the centre to find a ‘middle path’ to end the ‘continuing cycle of violence’ in Kashmir valley the Chief Minister should have pondered over the failures of her own government in resisting the pressures from the home and defence ministries of the central government and top brass of the army over the continuation of “ operation all out” which is now consuming the present young generation of Kashmir.
Not words but actions show the concern of the government but unfortunately the Mehbooba government is restricting its concerns on civilian killings to words of “ anguish” and unless Chief Minister does not take bold action to end the civilian killings the rising tempers can’t boil down in Kashmir valley.
Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti may find it easy to defend the killing of militants in encounters but the luke warm response to rising public anger against the civilian killings brewing up among the people in Kashmir is attracting criticism and condemnation of the PDP-BJP coalition government even from the top civil society groups in Delhi. Keeping in view the rising tempers against continuing cycle of civilian killing in Kashmir the Chief Minister can’t defend the indefensible actions of the forces working under his command and control as Chairperson of the Unified headquarters (UHQ) and minister incharge home department. Not words but actions show the concern of the government but unfortunately the Mehbooba government is restricting its concerns on civilian killings to words of “ anguish” and unless Chief Minister does not take bold action to end the civilian killings the rising tempers can’t boil down in Kashmir valley.
