Badalta Manzar ( The changing scenario)

He's all of 39. Wears armani, is finely educated.And runs a state. Well, almost. Omar Abdullah's recent offer of a resignation and staging of a walk out from the J&K Assembly has impressed me. Now here's a leader, who takes off his coat if there's a stain on it, instead of wiping it off. No, our gentleman is a man of honour. Maybe, he has still not brought the gruesome shopian perpetrators to justice, but still he will safeguard his dignity if he is in the line of fire. And that too for an involvement in a sex scandal. itni bari zurrat!

On the other hand PDP firebrand Mehbooba Mufti is acting weird all of a sudden. Last day, she yanked off a microphone of the speaker and threw it down. A few days after, she tore down the CBI's clean chit given to Omar and dramatically threw it in the air. Now now, Madam isnt that acting too much childish? If you want to drag your grandson's name in a controversy, libel him with something else. Not with one which nobody is going to believe. And on the contrary, Omar's resignation has drawn many sympathy and support for him. Or was the lady fuming with anger over Muzaffar Hussein Beigh 's retraction of his statement?

With all this pandemonium, somewhere far from all this din, sits the kin of the Shopian sisters, staring at a blank and finishing the last morsel of the stale food. He knows, however much the goverment tries, he will not get justice. Maybe after 5 or 6 years, they will book a man for commiting the crime. But will that bring back his daughter? will it be able to take away even a little burden off his shoulders ? maybe, not...

And Omar Abdullah would be sitting in a newly stitched coat, enjoying a moral victory over the clean chit given to him by the CBI. And Mehbooba Mufti would be planning her next course of action to topple the NC rule.

By that time, another rape would have taken place which will serve as a fodder for endless accusations by the opposition. And this time, Omar might be needing to wipe off the stain with a kerchief.

(The opinion is a sudden flicker of an idea, which might change with the Badalta manzar of India and its politics)