What is Farooq up to ?

Farooq Abdullah Farooq Abdullah, president of the National Conference and former State Chief Minister, remained adept in changing political colours faster than chameleon.. If he berates one party, beware, he may join hands with that simply to either retain power or to regain it.
This is what he is trying these days. At times he is issuing statements deriding India On the other occasion, he is heard chiding Pakistan saying that Kashmir is a settled issue. Yet on the other occasions, he is heard opting for a dialogue with Pakistan for the settlement of the Kashmir issue.
At one stange he had no hesitation in joining hands with the BJP which facilitated his son to get inducted in the Union Council of Ministers as a junior Minister. It was in the beginning of the inninigs of Atal Behari Vajpayee when he forged an unwritten alliance with the BJP.
Later, he had no qualms in joining hands with the Congress for retaining power. Between 2008 and 2014 the state had a coalition Government of the Congress and the National Conference.Even when the 2014 elections gave a fractured mandate, the National Conference wished to be part of the Government.
It seems that Farooq Abdullah thinks that since the coalition Government has not been able to tackle the current turmoil, possibilities have become bright of dismissal of the state Government. It may be followed by fresh Assembly election. Farooq wants to gear up for the poll and is determined to win it and regain power for the NC.
He knows that the writ of the separatists runs in Kashmir and by joining hands with them, successs in the election is assured.He does not knolw that these separatists were against the PDP, still it won power along with BJP.The separatists were against the Congress, still it was able to share power, first with the PDP, and, later, with the NC.
Earlier he demanded restoration of internal autonomy which to him was the only solution to the Kashmir issue. When this issue was discussed with a senior separatist leader, Prof. Abdul Ghani Bhat, he smiled and said autonomy is "not the issue." Even if it is an issue and has the ability to resolve the Kashmir issue, it is a matter that has to be debated by India and Pakistan,two principal partners of the Kashmir problem.
Bhat said Farooq Abdullah's sermons do not matter. What matters is the dialogue between India and Pakistan and the two are empowered to discuss the issue of internal autonomy and decide whether restorartion of it could settle the Kashmir issue.

Abdul Ghani Bhat He said as far as restoration of autonomy, the matter has been hanging since 2000. Had the restoration of internal or greater autonomy enthused people, the National Conference would not have lost power in the 2002 and 2014 elections. It would not have been forced to form a coalition Government in alliance with the Congress in 2008.
As far as Article 370 of the Constitution is concerned, all the laws adopted by the Parliament cannot be applicable directly to Jammu and Kashmir.If several hundred laws have been extended to Jammu and Kashmir, it has been done through the approval of the state legislature. What does the NC President, Dr Farooq Abdullah demand ? He possibly wishes to return to the era when the Governor was Sadri- Riyasat and who was essentially a citizen of Jammu and Kashmir.He wants to restore the nomenclature of Sadr-i-Riyasat and that of Prime Minister instead of the Chief Minister.



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