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| Why are Jammu-based Congress & BJP leaders silent? | | Central University | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, July 29: Students of Jammu University and various colleges in Jammu province are on the roads protesting against the indifferent attitude of the authorities towards their demands seeking establishment of Central University and appointment of a local Vice-Chancellor. Girl students have also joined the movement. They too are boycotting classes. All this has been going on in Jammu since days.
Students are not only holding protest demonstration. A section of them has also started hunger strike. The Panthers Party, the Jammu Province People's Forum, the Jammu Central University Morcha, the Jammu State Morcha and several other organizations have swung solidly behind the protesting student community, which has been facing the official ire for quite sometime now. So much so that the peaceful and unarmed protesting students have fallen victims to the "official policy of repression."
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah did talk to Union Human Resource Development Minister some four days ago and urged him to do the needful so that the situation in Jammu didn't go out of hand with Kapil Sibal reassuring Abdullah that he would do the needful. But this has not helped restore peace in the educational institutions, particularly Jammu University and colleges. That the students and their supporters continue to hold protest demonstrations and organize hunger strike even after the Chief Minister's intervention and Kapil's assurance has only served to demonstrate the nature of trust deficit between the ruler and the protesting student community. They want "action on the ground" and "not lip service." They have, it appears, lost their confidence in the authorities.
The aggrieved student community says that "they could understand the reasons behind the indifferent attitude of the authorities towards their demands." They also say that the "fundamental factors that has all along worked against them is that they belong to Duggar Pradesh" and that "had they belonged to Kashmir province, they would have got everything - jobs, loans, universities, medical colleges, engineering colleges, stadiums and what not - on a platter."
They say that "their grievance is basically against the Jammu-based Congress and BJP which have all along bartered away the people of Jammu province for personal benefit" and that "had the Congress and BJP leadership played its role, the Central University would have become functional two years ago" and "the state government and New Delhi would not have treated them the way they have been treating them."
It is important to note that the protesting students and their sympathizers are holding the Congress and the BJP "squarely responsible" for what they call the "miserable plight of the people of Jammu province in general and young and educated Dogras in particular." Their specific charge is that the "Congress and the BJP contest elections in the name of Jammu, but after the election they flirt with Kashmiri leadership for power and pelf, thus leaving the Dogras in lurch." This is their attitude towards those who represent them in the assembly.
"Why are the Jammu-based Congress and BJP leaders and ministers, MPs, MLAs and MLCs silent?" Why are not they imitating their counterparts in Telangana and making common cause with them?" "Why have they thrown them to the wolves?" These are some of the questions the agitating student community is asking. And, they themselves answer these questions saying the "Jammu-based leaders would never answer these questions because they are weak, meek, self-seekers, sellers and basically Kashmir-centric."
It is time for the Jammu-based Congress and BJP leaders to rise to the occasion, identify themselves with the aggrieved student community and fight for the cause of the province to which they belong. It is not something undemocratic or anti-Kashmir. It is their duty to represent and fight for the genuine causes of their respective constituencies. Why to imitate Telangana? They should ape their counterparts in Kashmir who are systematically working for the state's separation from India and doing their level best for the constituencies they represent. Will they or will they not? Only time will tell. But one thing is crystal clear: The Congress and the BJP, like the NC and the PDP, have become thoroughly unpopular in Jammu province. The people of Duggar Pradesh have realized that they have to fend for themselves. |
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