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JAMMU, Jan 3: Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party (JKNPP) leaders, including its patron Bhim Singh, chairman Harsh Dev Singh and president Balwant Singh Mankotia, have urged the youth and students to spare 2013 for the sake of freedom, liberty and justice and appealed to intellectuals, thinkers and social and political activists to support this agenda in the interest of human dignity. "The Panthers Party appeals to the youth and students to spare-2013 for the sake of freedom, liberty and justice to the next generations. The Panthers Party shall announce action plan in this regard. The party also appeals to the intellectuals, thinkers, social and political activists to support this agenda in the interest of human dignity," they said in joint statement issued simultaneously from New Delhi, Srinagar and Jammu on January 1.
The JKNPP leaders, in addition, reiterated that their "unfinished agenda is to expose, oppose and ensure the fall of the corrupt, criminal and authoritarian regime" (read NC-Congress rule) and they will "accomplish their agenda in 2013". Besides, they reiterated that their commitment to creating an environment leading to the reorganization of the state, establishment of separate legislatures, separate Public Service Commission and separate recruitment agencies and Constitution of a delimitation commission charged with the responsibility of delimiting the assembly constituencies afresh. They termed their agenda as the "greatest agenda".
However, it was not clear from their statement that they addressed the people of Jammu province. There was no reference to the miserable plight of the people of Jammu province. Nor did they even once refer to Jammu province. They only made a vague statement indicating that they are still not clear as to what they stand for or as to what have they in their political schemes of things for the people of Jammu province who have been longing for a situation that empowers them to exercise equal rights with their Kashmiri counterparts and enables them to compensate for the losses they have suffered during all these more than 65 years of the State's accession with India at the hands of the Kashmiri leadership and its cronies in Jammu province.
The JKNPP leadership, which has its support-base confined to three constituencies and a few other pockets in Jammu province and which has always sought to create an impression that theirs is a Jammu-based and Jammu-centric regional, and not state-level, formation, needs to clear it position. It cannot beguile the people by making vague statements. It should also remember that its support-base is confined only to certain Assembly segments in Jammu province and that the people of Kashmir will never trust them like they do not trust the Congress and the BJP. If the JKNPP leadership really wishes to extend its area of influence beyond Ramnagar, Udhampur and Samba Assembly segments, it has to be out-and-out Jammu-centric and it should not mean any opposition to the just and rational hopes and aspirations of the people of Kashmir. |
