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Cong leadership from Kashmir and Jammu a divided lot
Compulsions of politics
7/7/2015 12:27:52 AM
Early Times Report
jammu, July 6: JKPCC is a divided house. The attitude of the Congress leaders from Jammu region is different from that of JKPCC Ghulam ahmad Mir. Mir is an ethnic Kashmir. Many Congress leaders from Jammu region have not only been supporting the ongoing movement for the establishment of AIIMS in Jammu, but also opposing the state government for different reasons. Take, for example, the views of two senior Congress leaders and former Cabinet Ministers, Sham Lal Sharma and RS Chib. Both are highly critical of the present dispensation and both have been accusing it of perpetrating injustice after injustice on the people of Jammu region.
Besides criticizing the decision of the PDP-BJP coalition government to shift the sanctioned AIIMS from Jammu to Kashmir, they have also been criticizing other policies of it, including the new recruitment policy, discrimination with Jammu in matters relating to education, especially the duration of B Ed course. The duration of the B Ed course in the University of Kashmir and the Central University of Kashmir is one year from the session 2015-16 and the duration of the same course in the University of Jammu has been revised to two years.
They, Like the Panthers Party leadership, are saying, and very rightly, that one state cannot have two sets of laws for the same subject. They are wondering how could two universities in one state with same Chancellor, same Pro- Chancellor and same Ministry of Higher Education can adopt two distinct policies regarding the same course and maintaining that the "obnoxious move is utterly unconstitutional, unethical and unscrupulous".
But more than that, while Sham Lal Sharma has started demanding adequately empowered regional council for Jammu, asserting that the only way to end discrimination with the people of Jammu region is the reorganization of the state polity on a regional basis, Chib has gone to the extent of suggesting that complete separation of Jammu region from Kashmir Valley is the only way out left for protecting the interests of Jammu region. Earlier, Sharma had also demanded trifurcation of the state. The point is that many senior Congress leaders from Jammu region share the views of Sharma and Singh. It is quite understandable. The politics in Jammu region is different from that in the valley. If the Congress leaders from Jammu region are to remain relevant, they have to identify themselves with the Jammu sentiment, which is different from that of the Kashmiri sentiment. The political scene of Jammu region is such that the local Congress leaders can't afford to toe the line their counterparts in Kashmir have been pursuing.
Kashmir Politics: JKPCC chief Ghulam Ahmad Mir is nakedly playing Kashmir-centric politics and taking on the PDP-BJP coalition government, saying it has failed to deliver on all fronts. So much so, he has urged the PDP to snap ties with the BJP and assured the PDP of the Congress' outside help in running the state government.
"Even at present, we are ready to accord our external support to Mufti Mohammad Sayeed and he will continue to remain as chief minister of the state. What everyone wants and yearns in the state of Jammu and Kashmir at present is that this coalition of BJP and PDP must end as it has failed the people and undermined the aspirations of the voters in the state," state Congress chief G.A. Mir told an a Srinagar-based news agency. Elaborating the offer to Mufti further, Mir said that "everyone in the state understands that not even a single promise made to the people ahead of polls has been fulfilled by the present regime and that whatever assurances were given to the masses are proving to be a hoax one by one".
"In the name of rehabilitation, cruel jokes are being made with the flood sufferers. Irony is that peanuts are given to the victims in the name of relief and this government beats the trumpet of delivering the governance on ground. Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed has to one day withdraw support as it has become inevitable for this coalition to wind up the office. I can tell you that if Mufti has to withdraw support, why not now. What for is he waiting. Mufti Sahib resigns, we will support you and you will continue to remain the chief minister of the state. The sole purpose of the Congress in supporting Mufti Sayeed is that the party wants to stop the march of RSS and other communal elements into Jammu and Kashmir. We want to tell Mufti Sahib that there are other states in India wherein there are non- BJP governments. Aren't they functioning in a normal way? Why such a misconception is being created that without BJP in the government, Jammu and Kashmir would cease to exist. See the promises it made in New Delhi. See what the plight of return of power projects is. The dialogue with separatists continues to remain a distant dream and no one in the government is talking about the plight of people who continue to suffer as government has failed completely on ground," Mir further told the news agency.
It was clear from what Mir told the news agency that his politics is patently Kashmir-centric and that he shares the views of other Kashmiri parties on dialogue with separatists, NHPC-managed and controlled power projects, relief for and rehabilitation of flood victims in Kashmir and on the BJP and the RSS.
All this demonstrates that there are two Congresses in Jammu & Kashmir, one seeking to cultivate people of Jammu region and the other seeking to expand its constituency in Kashmir.
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