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| Separatists, NC, Congress, CPI-M upping ante against PDP | | Lawlessness, anarchy in Kashmir | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Sept 22: The situation in Kashmir is deteriorating with each moment. The state police have virtually raised their hands as the authorities want them to go soft against the undesirables. This soft approach has further emboldened the undesirables to vitiate the atmosphere in the Valley and instigate gullible Kashmiri Muslims to defy the law of the land. The Mullas and Maulvis, the separatists and fanatics, the business leaders and other civil society groups and backward-looking intellectuals and commentators have found in the prevailing situation a God-sent opportunity to muddy further the Indian waters in the Valley and further their seditionist and communal agenda. They have all threatened that the situation would go out of hand in Kashmir on the day of Eid in case the Mufti Government not lift ban on beef consumption.
As if all this was not enough to create a serious situation in the Valley, the so-called mainstream Kashmiri parties and even some senior PDP leaders, including a Minister, have also taken the plunge to create an ugly situation in the Valley that forces Chief Minister Mufti Sayeed to ask Speaker of the Assembly, Kavinder Gupta, a BJP MLA from Jammu, to allow discussion on all the private members' bills which seek repeal of those laws which banned cow slaughter and beef eating decades ago to respect the religious sentiments of the Hindu community. The parties include the NC, the Congress, the CPI-M and the PDP Minister, who has joined hands with these parties and fanatic Engineer Rashid, an independent MLA from Langate (Kashmir) and Imran Raza Ansari. "Nobody can interfere in our (Muslim) religious matters. Eating beef is allowed in Islam and we will continue to eat it," said Ansari, who is Minister for Technical Education and Sports.
Ansari and the parties like the NC, the Congress and the CPI-M have all asked the people not to pay any heed to the relevant laws as well as the High Court verdict that these laws must be enforced and those found guilty of violating it must be booked and brought to justice. Like Ansari, the NC and the Congress also want the Mufti Government to allow discussion on the private members' bills on cow killing and beef eating. Taking strong objection to what the NC called "overtly partisan" remarks of Speaker Legislative Assembly on anti-beef ban bill, the NC on Monday said any sabotage of the party's bill would be unacceptable and lead to serious implications.
"The Speaker's preemptive remarks that he won't allow certain bills to be tabled reeks of a very tragic partisan and ideological bias which goes against the ethics and covenants of democracy and constitution. The Speaker has no right to interfere into the democratic process of law-making by curtailing the rights of elected representatives to propose amendments in existing laws. This is not just a political point but a legal point as well. Any bills proposing amendments in existing laws cannot be stonewalled by the Speaker. If this happens this would be unprecedented and would discredit democracy and its institutions in the State", the NC said in a press statement.
As for the Congress, it said it will corner the Mufti Government in the Assembly for what it called its "total failure" to defend the petition seeking ban on beef consumption in Jammu & Kashmir. "It was really a shocker that Government was itself not knowing that its own Additional Advocate General (a BJP/RSS man) was behind the petition. Government utterly failed to pursue the matter in the court of law. There would have been no crisis if the Government had pursued the matter. We will ask Government the reasons of its failure and more importantly will ask PDP to clear its stand on the beef ban," the Congress said. "Resolutions and bills have already been submitted in the Assembly seeking repeal of law pertaining to beef ban. The Congress party will study these resolutions and accordingly will clear its stand," the Congress further said.
As for the CPI-M, less said the better. Suffice to say that the CPI-M is the extension of All-India Muslim League.
So, there is hardly saner voice in the Kashmir Valley. Everyone in Kashmir wants to grind his/her own axe and further embitter the already rather bitter inter-regional and inter-communal relations. It is obvious that they have made the situation very difficult for the Chief Minister. If he allows discussion and passage of the anti-Hindu and anti-cow private members' resolutions of bills, Jammu will be in flames and the country would witness political explosions against the BJP. And, if he decides to act otherwise, the PDP would lose its face in Kashmir, its core constituency. His problem is that there in no middle path available to him. The fact of the matter is that Jammu & Kashmir would enter a horrible phase after September 24 - a phase that could result in communal disturbances in the Valley and the collapse of the coalition Government. Indeed, the Chief Minister is face to face with a peculiar situation as he is to deal with Kashmir and Jammu, which stand for different ethos. |
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