The Prime Minister, who staked his prestige on the nuclear agreement with USA and then on getting the nuclear liability bill passed in the parliament, has shown an unsurprising lack of leadership when it comes to tackling the Kashmir issue, or the Maoist insurgency, or in controlling the inflation or in any of internal issues that cries for a clear cut policy initiative.
And the Kashmir issue is getting out of hand. And, the person to blame for this is not the PM, but Rahul Gandhi. Media has not surprisingly downplayed his culpability in this sordid saga.
To know how, one has to go back to the last J&K election. Congress and the National Congress had gone into the election projecting the seasoned elder Abdullah, Omar's father, Farooq Abdullah as the Chief Minister. Despite his high profile life style, Farooq Abdullah, is a seasoned politician, who has handled the State before. He was all ready to take the Oath, when Rahul Gandhi stepped in and pressurised a very reluctant Farooq to make his son, the highly inexperience Omar Abdullah, the Chief Minister. At that time, everyone (read psychophants in the Congress party and their chamcha media) hailed it as a great intervention by the PM in waiting to give a youthful face to governance. Wise men murmered then that this would be a disaster, for Omar has never lived in Kashmir, had very limited administrative experience, was not respected by people and was just not ready to handle a complicated state like Kashmir, which is always volatile. He did not have the stature to govern the State, that has both national and international relevance.
And now that Omar has proved to be a disaster (the current crisis can be directly attributed to poor governance by Omar), and everyone crying for Farooq Abdullah to take over (not that he is great but he is certainly wiser), Rahul and his cronies are blocking the move, as it would tantamount to accepting that Prince Charming's (Prince Disaster?) judgement was wrong. And hey! how can someone from the dynasty be wrong? So Kashmir continues to burn, while Rahul and Omar fiddles (read parties with the high and mighty).
Dread to think what will happen to India, if such a disaster becomes India's PM!
Let us change his description from PM in Waiting to Disaster in Waiting!
