Indefensible defence of Mehbooba, Omar on NIA jurisdiction

Claiming credit for all popular measures taken in Jammu and Kashmir on concerns of people over their security and blaming each other for every unpopular measure resulting in undue harassment to the separatists and the people aligning themselves with them on ideological lines is an old ploy of both PDP and National Conference (NC) and more so in election time. The latest war of words between National Conference Vice President and former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti the PDP President and another former Chief Minister over the institutional and operational role of NIA in Jammu and Kashmir is the desperate attempt of both Abdullah and Mehbooba to divert the attention of the people from their failure in denying the institutional and operational jurisdiction to National Investigative Agency (NIA). Both Omar and Mehbooba are equally responsible for assigning NIA the role which it enjoys today in the investigation of several cases of funding against separatists and others. While Omar Abdullah the National Conference Vice President granted administrative access to NIA as Chief Minister of NC-Congress coalition government the PDP President Mehbooba Mufti offered operational access to NIA as Chief Minister of PDP-BJP coalition government. Though both PDP and National Conference have never been honest to their words on both the extension of central laws and as well as extension of connstitutional and administrative jurisdiction to central government’s investigative agencies but better it would have better for both Mehbooba and Omar to promise people that if voted to power their parties would withdraw the institutional and administrative jurisdiction to National Investigative Agency (NIA) in Jammu and Kashmir. Blaming each other over NIA jurisdiction is just indefensible defence of both Mehbooba and Omar not going down the throats of people in Kashmir where the main contest is between NC and PDP in all the three Lok Sabha constituencies.