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| Assembly session that further alienated Jammu from Kashmir | | Valley's communal politics | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Oct 12: As was expected, the week-long autumn session of the State Legislature further alienated the already rather alienated people of Jammu province from the Kashmiri leadership. The proceedings in the Assembly and the Council once again suggested that Jammu people had no say whatever in the governance of the State and that it was the Valley leadership's anti-Jammu and communal politics that would continue to dominate the State Legislature.
Kashmiri lawmakers belonging to all parties spoke one language on all the issues, including the beef issue, and left none in any doubt that the people of Jammu province and Ladakh region had to obey their diktats, as they were determined to practice their politics of exclusiveness at whatever cost. Not a single lawmaker raised any Jammu-specific issue and if at someone raised it, the State Government rejected it as, for example, the demand in Jammu for the issuance of Dogra certificate.
But what the Kashmiri lawmakers did was not altogether unexpected. In fact, they did what they were supposed to do to cater to the religious sentiments of their respective communal and sectarian constituencies and meet their economic and other needs. There was no ambiguity in what they did and said in and outside the Assembly.
The opposition parties like the NC, the CPI-M and the two independent lawmakers from the Valley opposed the ruling coalition when it was needed and they, at the same time, went with the ruling coalition when they found that they were on the same side. The opposition and the ruling coalition, for example, adopted the NC-sponsored resolution on the maintenance of so-called peace and communal harmony in the State and they did so not out of conviction but out of political expediency. They joined hands only after the Kashmiri parties came to believe that the beef controversy could divide the State. Significantly, fanatics like Geelani also worked in their own way to ensure that the State remained one political unit. After all, they know that Jammu and Ladakh are their colonies and that they would succeed one day in creating Kashmir-like situation in Jammu province to achieve their larger objective.
Hence, what the Kashmiri lawmakers did and said didn't shock or surprise the people of Jammu province. They knew that the Kashmiri lawmakers were anti-Jammu by conviction and, hence, they were not surprised at all. What shocked them was the anti-Jammu stance that the 26-member BJP team in the Assembly, including Ministers, did during those seven days. They remained mum on all the issues which the people of Jammu province hated; they didn't even once spoke for Jammu. So much so, the Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh humiliated the people of Jammu province by tendering an unconditional apology for the scuffle that took place in the Assembly on October 8. The PDP asked the Deputy Chief Minister to tender apology for what it called the misconduct of the BJP lawmakers and he obliged not only the PDP but the entire Kashmiri ruling elite and Kashmiri people by obey the order. He didn't demand action against MLA Engineer Rashid who misused the official MLA hostel to outrage the religious sentiments of the Hindu community by hosting beef party there.
This is the whole situation. It's no wonder that the concerned people of Jammu province have come to the conclusion that if they are to survive and maintain their identity and achieve their due share of representation in the State, they have to form a regional party that is not only Jammu-centric but also nationalist in its approach. One thing is clear: The political scene of the Jammu province is all set to change sooner than later. |
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