The silence of Abdullahs’s and Muftis’ who ruled erstwhile Jammu & Kashmir state for decades are not breaking silence even over the failures of the Jammu & Kashmir Government on COVID-19 management as the crisis is deepening day after day. No dead end to the unprecedented no of COVID-19 cases should have though prompted the government to suspend it’s routine activities to focus it’s whole attention on COVID management crisis, but the field visits by Lieutenant Governor G C Murmu, his advisors and administrative secretaries going on uninterrupted in valley district even after the re-imposition of lockdown are yet to be noticed and questioned by Kashmir’s top mainstream leaders particularly three former chief ministers Farooq Abdullah, Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti heading the two biggest mainstream political parties National Conference and Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP). While the COVID-19 spread is intensifying in Kashmir only, the Abdullahs’ and Muftis’ don’t dare to seek explanations from the government over the causes and consequences of intensifying spread of COVID-19 even after the re-imposition of lockdown in Valley districts . Omar Abdullah the National Conference Vice President and a former chief minister of erstwhile Jammu & Kashmir state find time to taunt his critics and rivals on micro blogging social networking site twitter but does not find time to seek explanations from the government over the intensifying increase in the no of COVID-19 deaths and positive cases in Kashmir only . Similary Iltija Mufti the daughter of Mehbooba Mufti another former Chief Minister of erstwhile Jammu & Kashmir state handling twitter account of her mother since August 5 last year tweets freely over the statements of PDP’s critics and rivals day in and day out but does not bother to seek explanations from the Jammu & Kashmir government over the causes and consequences of the unprecedented spread of COVID-19 in Kashmir only.
Having no concerns for the non stop COVID-19 deaths in Kashmir both Abdullahs’ and Muftis’ don’t bother to break their silence but only wait for a formal call from Delhi over their future political course on power sharing amid the imposition of many controversial laws taken by the government without their involvement and engagement .
While both Omar and Iltija and even Farooq Abdullah alongwith his party’s two other parliament members could have cornered the government over the opening of the parks and gardens, launch of amaranth yatra and go ahead for the arrival of tourists amid COVID-19 lockdown re-imposed in Kashmir, they have left it for Kashmir’s netizens to seek explanations from the government on social media sites over these key issues concerning the lives of the common people in Kashmir. They don’t even bother to talk about the freedom of those netizens who are booked by police for putting anti-government posts on social media sites over the controversial decisions opening of the parks and gardens, launch of amaranth yatra and go ahead for the arrival of tourists amid COVID-19 lockdown. Having no concerns for the non stop COVID-19 deaths in Kashmir both Abdullahs’ and Muftis’ don’t bother to break their silence but only wait for a formal call from Delhi over their future political course on power sharing amid the imposition of many controversial laws taken by the government without their involvement and engagement .
