It's The Same Old Story!

With the assembly elections upcoming, the restlessness in the political circles of Jammu and Kashmir flares on.

Omar Abdullah of the National Conference has called the Sajjad Lone of People’s Conference an ‘RSS stooge’ and that BJP would revoke article 370 along with Muslim Personal Law to damage the state’s demography and character.

What Omar has said, or done, is nothing new. It’s all part of that old ‘Blame Game’ in which Indian politicians where always the masters. When something like a General Election comes up, politicians without any party wise distinctions comes out of their comfy little burrows to blame someone or the other and then go back as soon as the elections get over.

Rarely does a politician speak of any practical actions that might be taken after the election. Everything that matters to the people, who listens to these politicians are the sentimental value attached to it. Indian politics in that sense is worse than the ‘Saans Bahu’ TV serials.

Here the heated debate is between two political leaders, who have had special status studying abroad and almost never seeing their ‘State’ and its people for almost half of their lifetime, about the distant possibility of revoking the special status given to the state.

When will there be an actual debate about the actual issues? Politicians need to at least attempt to come up with solutions to the actual and immediate issues that pertain to the people rather than blaming each other or promising, in ornamental languages, some abstractions that is ultimately only a figure of speech.