ET Report
Jammu, Aug 29: The Panun Kashmir (PK), a premier organization of the persecuted and hounded out community of Kashmiri Hindus, will organize a roundtable conference on Sunday in Jammu on the PDP-BJP Agenda of Alliance. Sources close to the PK leaders say about 50 persons drawn from all walks of life will participate in the roundtable conference and express their views on the Agenda of Alliance. The objective of the organizers of the roundtable conference is to provide a platform to the concerned citizens so that they could discuss the implications of the Agenda of Alliance. Some of those who would speak on the theme include PK leaders Ajay Chrungoo and Agni Shekhar, former Bar president BS Slathia and senior BJP leader and former Dean of Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Jammu, Prof Hari Om, and thereafter there would be a detailed discussion on the Agenda of Alliance. It could also adopt a resolution for the consideration of the Government of India.
The Agenda of Alliance became a subject of discussion from the day it was released to the press. It was released on March 1, 2015, the day the PDP-BJP coalition formed government in the state. Ever since then, its critics have been accusing the framers of the Agenda of alliance of "betraying" the national cause as well as "betraying the nationalist camp in Jammu & Kashmir". Its critics have gone to the extent of terming it as "dangerous", "agenda of subversion", "a new charter of bondage for Jammu" and "another rivet in the chain of Jammu slavery".
It was AIIMS Coordination Committee (ACC) which took the lead in condemning the Agenda of Alliance a number of times. It repeatedly charged the BJP with "subverting the Jammu mandate". Its grouse against the BJP was that it allowed the PDP to "snatch the sanctioned AIIMS for Jammu" and "establish it in Kashmir". The ACC, which spearheaded the movement for more than two months for the establishment of AIIMS in Jammu, not only focused on the circumstances under which the AIIMS was shifted from Jammu to Kashmir but also tore into the BJP several times, saying that the Agenda of Alliance had "jeopardized the national interests" in Jammu & Kashmir. All of its statements were blistering attacks on the BJP leadership, especially the BJP ministers and legislators. Its refrain was that they "sacrificed Jammu's interest for loaves and fishes of office".
However, it is the PK that has taken the first initiative to hold a roundtable conference on the Agenda of Alliance and come out with a concrete response to it. It would be interesting to know what the roundtable conference comes out with. |
