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| Youth Congress enacting a 'drama of sorts' | | Attack On CM! | | Rustam
JAMMU, Sept 29: "The Chief Minister has failed in providing security to elected Panches and Sarpanches. More than one year has passed, but the State Government has not yet taken the empowerment of Panchayat members issue seriously. The Chief Minister should immediately resign from the chair as he is 'responsible' for the killings of Panchayat members. If the Government had provided timely security and empowered the panchayat members, the situation might not have deteriorated. The Chief Minister is responsible for the killings of Sarpanches in Kashmir and it is murder of democracy. A ten-member delegation met AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi yesterday (Thursday) at New Delhi and apprised him of the security situation and militant threats".
These were some of the statements issued yesterday outside Press Club Jammu by some Youth Congress activists. About 200 youth activists had assembled outside the Press Club to register what they called protest against the Chief Minister (read the Congress-backed Chief Minister). They denounced the Chief Minister, raised slogans against him, demanded his resignation, held him responsible for the gruesome killings of some panchayat representatives and accused him of murdering democracy. Some of them also courted arrest. "Empower Panchayat Members or Quit" was their main slogan.
People should have appreciated what the Youth Congress activists did and said yesterday in the winter capital of the State and City of Temples, Jammu. For, they conducted themselves in a manner that did indicate their commitment to the cause of the suffering people. Ironically, they failed to evoke positive response. In fact, many dismissed the Youth Congress's yesterday action as a "drama of sorts enacted to hoodwink and mislead the people".
The critics of the Youth Congress activists said that they had no right to protest against the Chief Minister, as he had on September 26 revealed that two Congress Ministers and many MLAs had opposed the demand seeking transfer of block level powers to the panchayats. "They should have protested against the Congress Ministers and the Congress MLAs who had opposed the demand," they said, and added that "the Congress is indulging in politics of deceit by supporting and opposing the State Government at the same time". The upshot of the critics' whole argument was that "if the Congress is really committed to empowering Panches and Sarpanches, it has no other option but to ask its Ministers to do the needful or quit". As a matter of fact, the critics of the Youth Congress said that "both the Congress party and the NC are responsible for the prevailing situation in the State". "The Congress must withdraw its support to the Government to prove its pro-people credentials," they said.
It is time for the Youth Congress, nay for the Congress party as a whole, to refashion its approach towards the State Government of which the Congress is a part taking into consideration the mood of the people. It has to discard the questionable methodology it adopted so far to make the Government adopt 73rd Constitutional amendment and empower the powerless Panches and Sarpanches. |
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