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| NC,Cong desperate for victory in Jammu & Kashmir | | | Hari Om | 10/17/2014 10:33:40 PM |
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The NC and the Congress are, on one
hand, tearing into each other and, on
the other, taking extreme stands to woo voters in the State. The political climate in election-bound Jammu & Kashmir is not favourable for the ruling coalition comprising the disparate National Conference and the Congress. Both the parties, which openly profess and brazenly preach almost the same fake secular ideology, suffered a massive defeat in the recently held Lok Sabha election. Peoples Democratic Party of Mufti Mohammad Sayeed and his daughter Mehbooba Mufti defeated the NC in Kashmir and won all the three seats hands down. The Bharatiya Janata Party under the effective and skillful leadership of Home Minister Rajnath Singh and Prime Minister Narendra Modi created a history of sorts by winning the three remaining Lok Sabha seats in Jammu and Ladakh. Both the upbeat PDP and the BJP have adopted "Mission 44+" as their goal in the Assembly elections. They are putting in all efforts to achieve their stated objective: Dislodge the corrupt, callous and corrupt Omar Abdullah regime and form their own Government in the State.
Almost convinced that their outfits have little or no chance in the upcoming Assembly election or that their parties are on the verge of political extinction, radicals among the discredited and unpopular NC and the Congress are, on one hand, tearing into each other publicly and, on the other, taking extreme stands to woo the alienated electorate. These leaders, who hold responsible positions in the party and the Government, are so desperate to improve the poll prospects of their respective outfits that they are brazenly polarising the electorate on regional, ethnic and religious lines. Sham Lal Sharma who is Minister for Public Health Engineering and a close associate of Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee, chief Saifuddin Soz, has, for example, unleashed a no-holds-barred campaign in Jammu calculated to heighten inter-regional tensions between Jammu and the valley and jeopardise the electoral chances of the BJP in those 25-odd Assembly constituencies where the Hindus constitute an overwhelming majority. His campaign has four components: Jammu must get the Chief Minister's post, the Chief Minister has to be a Hindu, the Dogras of Jammu must vote for the Congress for their socio-economic and political regeneration and the Dogras of Jammu - Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs included - cannot accept the position of servitude for an indefinite period.
To drive home his point, Mr Sharma has been saying that Jammu has no presence in the civil secretariat; that it cannot get justice because out of 7,000 employees in the State Civil Secretariat, just 200 belong to Jammu; that Jammu cannot play second fiddle to Kashmir; that we should not only think of the post of Deputy Chief Minister; and that trifurcation of the State is the only lasting solution, and if the three-way split of the State is not acceptable, Jammu must be given an empowered regional council. "We (read Dogras) have to think beyond party politics and struggle unitedly for better future of Jammu and this is not possible by limiting our vision and approach" has been his basic refrain. The fact of the matter is that the right hand man of the JKPCC chief and a well-known loyalist of the Congress high command, Mr Sharma, is leaving no stone unturned to arouse regional and ethnic passions in Jammu province. It is, however, true that the bulk of population in Jammu province is for the segregation of their region from Kashmir. The insistence of Mr Sharma that the Chief Minister of the State has to be from Jammu and he must be a Hindu has not gone down well with the NC. NC working president and beleaguered Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's uncle and comprehensively defeated party Chief Mr Farooq Abdullah's younger brother, Mr Mustafa Kamal, who is also the additional general secretary of the party, has upped the ante both against the Congress and Mr Sharma. He has not only demanded expulsion of Mr Sharma from the Council of Ministers, but also declared that the Chief Minister of the State has to be a Kashmiri Muslim. Terming Mr Sharma's statements as unfortunate and irresponsible, Mr Kamal has said: "The Prime Minister or the Chief Minister of Jammu & Kashmir not only has to be a Muslim but also from Kashmir valley. When Azad sahab became the Chief Minister, there was an outcry that he belongs to Doda (in Jammu region) and is not from Kashmir valley…So he had to show that he had a residence in Srinagar and hails from Kashmir". ` Courtesy: Daily Pioneer |
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