G H Mir : A deserter by conviction, a defector by compulsion

Gh Hassan Mir, a defector of National Conference (NC) , Awami National Conference (ANC) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in yesteryears and a deserters of Abdullahs’ and Muftis’ in the yesteryears never stops talking against the core public sentiment of People of Jammu & Kashmir and always delivers sermons of democracy to appease people at the helm in Delhi. He is the mainstream politician who throughout his political career mostly preferred personal political ambitions over core political sentiments of the people who sent him to assembly not once but many times in the past. He is known for being instrumental in staging a political coup against the erstwhile Farooq Abdullah led National Conference Government to become a full fledged cabinet minister under the leadership of late Gh Mohammad Shah but his association with the erstwhile Omar Abdullah led NC-Congress coalition government as a nomine of the Congress party was by all standards of understandabilities a departure from his ideological stand against National Conference. Mir not only worked as an associate of erstwhile Omar Abdullah led coalition ministry but he outsmarted even some senior National Conference leaders in showing his loyalty to Omar Abdullah as Chief Minister of erstwhile NC-Congress coalition government. Interestingly Mir has also a long history of association with PDP under the leadership of late Mufti Mohammad Sayeed but he deserted even late Mufti for his political ambitions as he had an increasing tendency to emerge NO:2 in PDP and his political ambitions prompted him to desert even late Mufti in the end. By virtue of his actions Mir has all the qualifications of a professional political defector and in the process he has not deserted only the leaders under whom he worked as a minister and frontline political worker but also the people who elected him not once but many a times in the past. Mir was one of those few mainstream politicians who were not put under detention after the abrogation of article 370 and downgrading of erstwhile Jammu & Kashmir state to a union territory in August last year.
Mir’s latest remark against National Conference over the rejection of central government’s delimitation panel shows his knee deep alignment with the incumbent central government and yet another move to desert his political masters of the past yet again. So obviously for his political ambitions Mir tends to prove once more that he is a deserter by conviction and a defector by compulsion.
Mir’s attendance at the joint meeting of some former ministers and leading business tycoons with the top central leadership after the abrogation of article 370 last year landed him into yet another political controversy. Interestingly his association with former Army Chief V K Singh presently Minister of State for Defence in the Narendra Modi led BJP government at the centre remains unquestioned as his name was dragged into a controversy over funding of Kashmir’s mainstream political leaders during the reign of erstwhile Omar Abdullah led NC-Congress Coalition government when he was a minister in the state cabinet and V K Singh was army chief . His connections with the then army chief V K Singh hit the headlines of some national dailies published from Delhi and other major state capitals. Mir’s latest remark against National Conference over the rejection of central government’s delimitation panel shows his knee deep alignment with the incumbent central government and yet another move to desert his political masters of the past yet again. So obviously for his political ambitions Mir tends to prove once more that he is a deserter by conviction and a defector by compulsion.