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| Another opportunity missed by Jammu lawmaker | | Assembly Session | | Neha
jammu, Oct 11: Many in Jammu had hoped that the Jammu-based lawmakers belonging to the BJP, the JKNPP and the JSM this time would play an effective role in the Assembly and force the NC-Congress Government to see reason and do something concrete with a view to addressing their age-old concerns. The session of the State Legislature commenced on October 1 and ended yesterday with none of the Jammu-based legislators making any impact whatsoever. The BJP, the JKNPP and the JSM legislators did stage a couple of walkouts raising pro-Jammu slogans and drawing the attention of the State Government to the some of the grievances and demands of the people of Jammu Pradesh and that's all. They did not persist; they did not insist; they raised certain issues half-heartedly and left everything to the judgment of the NC and the Congress, which conducted themselves on expected lines and refused to pay any heed to what the Jammu-based opposition parties said on the floor of the Assembly. They did not even contest the Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister who said on the floor of the Assembly that Jammu and Kashmir is a disputed territory.
The Jammu-based legislators on a couple of occasions during all these ten days of the session of the State Legislature did raise the issue of unemployment in Jammu Pradesh and accused the State Government of according a preferential and differential treatment to the Kashmiri youth as far as employment opportunities were concerned. They, for example, told the powers-that-be on the floor of the Assembly that out of a total of 1,129 posts of Assistant Professors, Jammu Province was given only 429 positions despite the fact that the number of colleges in Kashmir and Jammu is equal. They also drew the attention of the Government to the exclusion of Jammu youth from the various centrally-sponsored schemes, including Udaan and Himaayat and accused the authorities of making all these schemes the sole preserve of the Kashmiri youth. Did they achieve anything for Jammu? No, they didn't because their conduct was such.
Raising these issues was just not enough. They should have created an environment to force the authorities rectify their mistakes and compensate the neglected and excluded Jammu youth. They didn't do that. As mentioned, they virtually kept mum after raising these otherwise very important issues. Even the somewhat vocal Panthers Party MLAs maintained utmost restraint for reasons best known to them. On the contrary, the Kashmiri lawmakers once again established their pro-Kashmir credentials. They identified themselves fully with their constituencies in Kashmir and left none in any doubt that they could go to any extent to promote the cause of their constituencies.
It would be no exaggeration to say that the Jammu-based lawmakers belonging to the BJP, the JKNPP and the JSM again missed another opportunity and left their constituencies in the lurch. To be more precise, they once again defeated Jammu. This type of politics will not do. They have to perform and deliver. They must remember that the patience of the people of Jammu Pradesh, especially the already rather frustrated youth, is ending, and ending very fast. |
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