Says public not part of debate, expectations only from Govt
Srinagar, Sept 11 : A day after Chief Minister Omar Abdullah questioned whether the Congress wanted the people of Kashmir to “go to jail over the national song”, Pradesh Congress Committee president Tariq Hamid Karra strongly rebutted the remarks, asking how the people of Jammu and Kashmir had come into the picture when the expectations were solely from the Government of J&K.In a post on X, Karra, as per news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), termed Omar’s statement “detached from reality and highly unfortunate.” He said, “How did the people of Jammu & Kashmir come into the picture when our expectations were clearly and exclusively from the Government of Jammu & Kashmir? The public has nothing to do with this debate. It is the government that is expected to stand upright.”Karra further questioned whether anyone in Kerala had ever been jailed for singing only two stanzas of Vande Mataram, and asked if it was wrong to expect the J&K Chief Minister to uphold secular and inclusive values like his counterparts in non-BJP ruled states.“Did a single person in Kerala go to jail when its government chose to sing only the first two stanzas of Vande Mataram at the Independence Day parade? Are we wrong to expect our Hon’ble CM to be equally capable of standing up for secular and inclusive values as the CMs of Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and now even Karnataka and Telangana have done by limiting Vande Mataram to the first two stanzas at state events?” Karra asked—(KNO)
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