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| BJP may support bill to revoke ban on beef eating | | Crucial Assembly Session | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Sept 29: It will be clear in a day or two if the private members' bills on revocation of ban on cow killing and consumption of beef in the State will be taken up for discussion in the upcoming Assembly session, starting on October 3. The Speaker of the Assembly Kavinder Gupta, who happens to be a BJP MLA, is likely to take a decision today or tomorrow, as the his Secretariat has to finalize the business agenda to be taken up during the week-long session of the State Legislature. The opposition National Conference, the CPI-M and an independent MLA from Langate (Kashmir), Engineer Rashid, have submitted bills to the Speaker's office and all the bills seek revocation of ban on cow killing and beef eating.
Reports from Kashmir suggest that the NC, the CPI-M and Engineer Rashid were not willing to oblige the PDP-BJP coalition Government by withdrawing their bills. They would insist on discussion on and adoption of their bills, as they see in their move an opportunity to corner the PDP and embarrass the BJP and score political points by playing a religious card. Reports also suggest that a section of the PDP also wanted the Speaker to accept these bills for discussion so that the PDP was able to tell their Kashmiri constituency that they were with it and with the NC, the CPI-M and Engineer Rashid as far as the cow killing and eating of beef issues were concerned. This section consists of those who showed Additional Advocate General Vishal Shrma and Deputy Advocate General Parimoksh Seth the door for their role that resulted in the issuance of an order from the State High Court directing all the concerned authorities to strictly enforce ban on cow killing and sale of beef and beef eating in the State.
As for the BJP, reports emanating from Vir Bhawan (RSS headquarter in Jammu) and Pt Prem Nath Dogra Bhawan (BJP headquarter in Jammu) suggest that BJP would go with the PDP and support the bills on revocation of cow killing and eating of beef in case the PDP asked the BJP to do so. Sources close to Vir Bhawan and Pt Prem Nath Dogra Bhawan inform that "there is general consensus that the PDP-BJP coalition Government has to be saved at any cost and if the situation so warrants, the BJP would not minding supporting the bills moved by parties like the NC".
The information given by these insiders appears to be credible. After all, the BJP had in the past supported all the actions of the PDP, including the unceremonious dismissal of Vishal Sharma and Parimoksh Seth from their respective positions. If the BJP could allow the PDP to humiliate and punish Sharma and Seth for defending the law of the land, why can't it go with the PDP if it finally decides to go with the NC and get the anti-Hindu and non-secular bills passed in the Assembly? |
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