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| BJP leader hails NFSA, PDP says 'it's not a word of God' | | NC, separatists on same side | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 20: A senior BJP leader recently claimed that the National Food Security Act (NFSA) would be implemented in J&K come what may. He asserted that the legislation, when implemented, would "go a long way in providing subsidized food grains to the people of the state and maintained that the "verification time for registration under the Act has been extended so that more people can avail its benefit".
On the same day, a senior PDP leader took a different line on the NFSA. Amid attacks on the NFSA from opposition parties, including NC and CPI-M, and separatists, including Syed Ali Shah Geelani and Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, he hinted that state government would not mind "reviewing implementation of the legislation". The NFSA "is not a word of God or a religious book which cannot be changed," the PDP leader said.
It is pertinent to mention here NC working president Omar Abdullah and his party men have been protesting against the decision of the state government to adopt and implement the NFSA for days now, despite the fact that the NC-Congress coalition government had taken a cabinet decision as early as in 2011 and requested the Government of India to implement it. Abdullah and Company have been accusing the PDP-led coalition government of "forcing people of the state into submission by depriving them of bare minimum ration under the garb of implementing the NFSA in the State".
The NC leadership took a complete U-turn on the issue after Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and other separatists opposed the implementation of the NFSA and motivated the gullible Kashmiris to hold protest against the Act. Mirwaiz even threatened an agitation in Kashmir if the state government went ahead with its decision on the NFSA. In other words, the NC adopted anti-NFSA stand in order to identify itself with the separatists. But it was expected.
Now that the PDP senior leader has said that the NFSA "is not a word of God or a religious book that cannot be changed", it can be said that the state government would take its own time on it. What PDP leader has means is the official line.
What will the BJP do now? Will it fall in line and act in the manner after Finance Minister Haseeb Drabu said that he would not consider the demand of BJP leaders seeking withdrawal of the 12.5 per cent Jaziya tax on Mata Vaishno Devi Pilgrimage or other Hindu Holy Pilgrimages? Or will it put its foot down and insist on implementation of the NFSA? There are reasons to believe that it will be the PDP whose writ will run and the BJP would have no option but to yield. |
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