Early Times Report
jammu, May 12: That National Conference (NC) was communal, separatist and rabidly communal was never in doubt, notwithstanding the fact that it always falsely claimed that it was secular and that it believed in the principle of justice and equity, as also in the balanced development of all the three regions of the state.
However, on Wednesday, the NC for the first time without mincing words said that it was against the people of Jammu province and it considered the Jammu youth irrelevant. The case in point is the ongoing controversy over the National Eligibility Entrance (NEET), with the separatists and parties like the NC, the Congress and the CPI-M (all Kashmir-centric) opposing the Supreme Court order and the people of Jammu hailing it.
It was none other than president of the defeated NC Farooq Abdullah who took the lead to tell the Jammu youth, nay the people of Jammu province, that they are no more than slaves and that they have to live and suffer under the Kashmiri hegemony. He on Wednesday termed the state government's failure to stop the extension of NEET to J&K as "an indication of PDP's complete integration into the BJP" and said "there was a systemic effort to undermine and sideline the State's institutional autonomy even in areas that specifically fall under the State List under the Constitution". He made this provocative statement at Shopian while party workers at a function organised to commemorate the Death Anniversary of Sheikh Mansoor Ahmed.
Farooq Abdullah not only blamed the PDP-BJP government for the extension of NEET to J&K, despite the fact that the state government left no stone unturned, including invocation of Article 370 and Article 35-A of the Indian Constitution, to get the state out of the ambit of the NEET, but also demanded legislation that would negate the April 28 decision of the Supreme Court that there will be one NEET across the country for under-graduate medical students and mar the career of the talent youth of Jammu province.
Pitching for anti-Jammu legislation, Farooq Abdullah said, "The PDP-BJP government should not hesitate to bring in an Act through the State Legislature to protect the rights and future of our students if the need arises".
The very fact that he vouched for a new legislation aimed at negating the apex court was a clear message for the people of Jammu province that they do not matter and that the NC is a fundamentally party of Kashmiris, for Kashmiris and by Kashmiris. Now that he has cleared the air and pitched for anti-Jammu legislation, it is time for the people of Jammu province to stand up and defeat all the anti-Jammu forces wherever they are. What Farooq Abdullah said was the gravest provocation and it cannot be ignored. |
