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| Budget session in Kashmir could set Jammu on fire | | Speaker alone to take final decision.....? | | ET Report
JAMMU, Dec 14: The proposal of the Speaker to have budget session in Srinagar because of the caving in of the Assembly complex has the potential of another agitation against this move.
Many MLAs of the Jammu have privately admitted that they will oppose such a proposal tooth and nail. They said they will go public only after Government takes a final call on this account.
The Speaker had said that if the building is not restored and other options do not fructify then session could be held in Srinagar.
"We would firstly try to hold the session in same complex but if it's declared unsafe, then we would try for alternate building but if that too is not possible then another option of the Government holding small session with vote on account in the winter capital and then full fledged in Srinagar," the Speaker had said.
Jammu based MLAs, leaders and civil society is taking this statement very cautiously and is also viewing it with some conspiracy angle.
"Speaker alone can't decide on it. He has to consult also. Even the word of Legislative Council chairman will also matter. And we will not let it happen as it will then set up a dangerous precedent," said Congress leader, who is also Minister, wishing not to be named.
Some are viewing the accident with the conspiracy angle.
"Kashmiri leadership was never interested in full fledged budget session in Jammu. It always had thought of holding this session in Kashmir and was devising ways for it for long but was never successful. It is quite possible that accident could have devised and planted but gave it colour of natural accident," said the Minister.
The Government had earlier, toyed with the idea of permanent Secretariat in the Srinagar and in fact CM had tweeted it as wasteful exercise. However, latter realizing the political repercussion of such ill thought act, it backtracked.
It had toyed with such an act when Dr Farooq Abdullah was the Chief Minister but he was forced to back off after long agitation in Jammu.
This proposal if materializes, could set the Jammu on boil with large scale agitation most likely to take place. It will not only jeopardise the Session but set the State on fire which could lead to regional polarization and this is some thing Government can't afford when Kashmir is witnessing revival of tourism. ' |
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