Sajad Lone the Peoples Conference Chairman and the incumbent Social Welfare Minister representing BJP part of the cabinet in Mehbooba led PDP-BJP government has said that Asiya Andrabi the Dukhtaran-e-Millat Chairperson could not be role model for women in Jammu & Kashmir but Sajad’s remark can be contested on many counts. Sajad Lone like former Chief Minister and National Conference Working President Omar Abdullah was expected to become the icon of youth in Kashmir but he despite coming from the separatist politics could not establish his own identity in state politics. Jammu & Kashmir Peoples Conference (J&K PC) under the leadership of Sajad Gani Lone was expected to emerge as main challenge to both the opposition National Conference and the ruling Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) but sorry to say that his party (Peoples’ Conference) which could have been an independent constituent like BJP and BJP in the Mehbooba led alliance is now an attached group of the BJP in Mehbooba led coalition. So before questioning the leadership of Asiya Andrabi the only women heading the largest women’s political outfit in the state should have pondered over his failure in establishing a distinct identity in the Mehbooba led coalition. Had late Ab Gani Lone the father of Sajad Gani Lone and founder of Jammu & Kashmir Peoples’ Conference (J&K PC) been alive today, then he would have brought to knees even the Prime Minister Narendra Modi not to talk of Mehbooba Mufti the incumbent Chief Minister or Nirmal Singh the incumbent Deputy Chief Minister and the head of the BJP part of the ministry in the Mehbooba government.
Sajad Gani Lone can’t deny the fact that he could not establish his own identity in the mainstream camp which Asiya Andrabi established in the separatist camp. So by all standards of understandabilities it can be said that Sajad himself suffering from the crisis of identity can’t deliver sermons on the role of his contemporaries and that too on ideological grounds for the purposes of political appeasement.
Before questioning the leadership of his contemporaries in the state politics , Sajad Gani Lone should ponder over his failures despite being the beneficiary of the legacy of his father late Ab Gani Lone. While the fact remains that Sajad as the minister incharge social welfare could order the cancellation of the Induction of Asiya Andrabi from the list of the women achievers only because of her political ideology but not on the grounds of her performances and popularity in the state politics. Just think Sajad Gani Lone ordered the cancellation of the induction of Asiya Andrabi from the list of women achievers prepared by the department controlled by him just to appease his sponsors in the BJP but on the contrary Asiya Andrabi is a woman who has built up the largest independent women’s political outfit in the state. Interestingly Sajad Gani Lone can’t deny the fact that he could not establish his own identity in the mainstream camp which Asiya Andrabi established in the separatist camp. So by all standards of understandabilities it can be said that Sajad himself suffering from the crisis of identity can’t deliver sermons on the role of his contemporaries and that too on ideological grounds for the purposes of political appeasement.
