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| Dogra youth the Jammu's last hope | | 1000-Crore Package | | Neha
JAMMU, Sep 4: Last August witnessed the Dogras in a fighting mood. Not in a fighting mood. In fact, they fought splendidly and forced the otherwise adamant Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal and others of his ilk to climb down and drop the idea of appointing a non-Dogra as the first Vice-Chancellor of the Jammu Central University. The Union Government knelt under pressure created by the determined and unrelenting Dogras, especially the chivalrous, committed, honest and non-purchasable Dogra youth, including the school, college and university-going girl students. The Union Government appointed a Dogra as the Vice-Chancellor. Leave aside the fact that the opinion of the Dogras is divided over the appointment of a bureaucrat as the Vice-Chancellor. The said bureaucrat had done his masters in history from the Jammu University as a private candidate when he was Divisional Commissioner of Jammu province. He had done his doctorate also as a part-time scholar.
What exactly the Dogra youth did last month to force the authorities to bite dust and appoint the first Vice-Chancellor? They disturbed the class work or they paralysed the functioning of the Jammu-based educational institutions, including the Jammu University and colleges. They organized strong and long marches to attract the attention of the indifferent, callous and vindictive authorities. They organized impressive protest demonstrations. They launched a signature campaign and they observed fast for days together to achieve their stated goal.
However, it was the girl students whose participation dramatically changed the whole situation in the Duggar Pradesh. They galvanized the opinion of the Dogras in no time. The methodology they adopted was very effective. What did they do to ridicule the Jammu-based ministers, MPs and MLAs? What did they do to make the Jammu-based politicians speak on the issue? They offered bangles to the ministers, MPs and MLAs; they urged the Dogras not to attend any function to be addressed by any minister, any MP and any MLA; they made a passionate plea to the Dogras to socially boycott their representatives as they had failed to take up the issue; and they ridiculed the ministers, MPs and MLAs and described them as the "touts of Kashmiri politicians".
The methodology employed by the girl students produced the desired result and the otherwise indifferent political class in Jammu mustered some courage and reacted favourably. One MP told media persons that he would sit on dharna in the Parliament if the demand of the Dogras was not conceded. The Jammu District (urban) Congress Committee, too, asked the authorities to concede the demand of the protesting Dogra youth, including the brave girl students. The BJP leadership, which like the Congress, had been watching the volatile August as a mute spectator also issued a statement that it would launch an agitation on the issue if the demand was not conceded by August 31 and it made a mockery of itself in the sense that it made the statement when it had become almost certain that the Union Government had made up its mind, of course, at the behest of the frightened Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, to appoint a Dogra Vice-Chancellor. The truth, in short, is that the girl students changed the whole scenario in no time.
The authorities in the state and at the centre have again ditched the Dogra youth by excluding them from the just-inaugurated Rs 1000-crore training-cum-placement package and by making it loud that the said package is meant for the Kashmiri youth. The package nowhere refers to the Jammu youth as well as the Ladakhi youth. The package says it is designed to keep the Kashmiri youth away from separatism. This exclusion has shocked the Dogra community in general and the Dogra youth, including the girl students, in particular. There are reasons to believe that the Dogra youth would avenge their humiliation and force the authorities to give them their due share in the package. It would be only reasonable to say that the Dogra youth are the Jammu's last hope. They and they alone could free the Duggar Pradesh from the cruel clutches of the irresponsible and discriminatory leadership. |
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