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| NC MLAs from Jammu join protest, stage walkout along with Omar | | 'Discrimination-with-Kashmir' is news of century! | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, June 28: The J&K Assembly on Monday witnessed a strange scene: The NC's walkout. The issue: Discrimination with Kashmir. The other day, the assembly was told that an IIT was being established in Jammu. It was this that infuriated all the non-PDP Kashmiri lawmakers and they on Monday created a scene over the issue.
Education Minister Naeem Akhtar instantly intervened to pacify the Kashmiri lawmakers, including Leader of Opposition and former J&K CM Omar Abdullah. He told the assembly that "there is a possibility for setting up out-campuses of IIM in the Valley" and that the state government would take the issue of IIT with the Government of India. "With regard to IIT, the issue may also be taken up with Government of India," Naeem Akhtar informed the House.
However, no opposition lawmaker bought the assurance and the result was pandemonium. The NC lawmakers, the lone CPI-M MLA and independent MLA from Langate all joined hands to corner the PDP and create an impression among Kashmiri Muslims that the PDP was pro-Jammu and anti-Kashmir. Naeem Akhtar again tried to pacify them by saying that the government would take up the issue with concerned authorities and IIT could be established in Kashmir, but with no result..
The most significant aspect of the whole situation was that it was the NC lawmakers who were in the forefront as far as staging of walkout was concerned.It was Omar Abdullah who took the lead and all the NC MLAs walked out all the NC MLAs which mean NC MLAs from Jammu as well.
That the Jammu-based NC MLAs also joined the walkout that was staged against Jammu should awaken the people of Jammu province and make them believe that they represent Kashmir and not Jammu in the assembly.
The question is not whether Kashmir gets IIT or not got it. There should be no problem. After all, Kashmir, like Jammu and Ladakh, is an integral part of India. The question is: Will not the establishment of another Indian institution in the Valley further alienate Kashmiri Muslims? It should because the Kashmiri leaders, without any exception, have given the Kashmiri Muslims to understand that Indian institutions are "symbols of Indian imperialism".
It cannot be denied that all the Kashmiri parties oppose the central institutions and central laws and say day-in and day-out that that one of the major factors responsible for the estrangement between Kashmiri Muslims and New Delhi is the central laws and central institutions.
The Kashmiri leaders need to catalogue Indian things they want for Kashmir and the Indian things they do not want for Kashmir. They must clear the confusion so that the Government of India and the nation come to know what really they want. They need to stop double-speak and contradictory statements. |
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