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| No taker for Omar's claim on ST status to Gujjars | | Wrong noises | | Neha
JAMMU, Dec 6: National Conference (NC) working president and the Congress-supported Jammu & Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on the occasion of 108th birth anniversary of his grandfather and founder of the NC Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah said many things about the BJP Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi in Srinagar, challenged him to join debate with him on Article 370 anytime, anywhere, and even at Ahmedabad and made several claims to establish that the NC is an all-embracing party.
One of his claims was that Gujjars of Jammu & Kashmir enjoyed Scheduled Tribe status. He was right. But he did not tell the audience that the NC by conviction was opposed to any such status to the Gujjars and Bakerwals and other communities like Gaddis because it did not want the members of a particular Kashmir-based religious sect to share power with others. He did not say that the Gujjars, Bakerwals, Gaddis and so on got the ST status in April 1991 when the NC was not in power and the state was under the President's rule.
(Jammu & Kashmir remained under Governor/President rule from January 19, 1990 to October 9, 1996. It remained under Governor Rule for the first six months, as according to section 91 of the Jammu & Kashmir Constitution the state cannot be kept under the Governor rule for more than six months. During the rest of the period, the state remained under the President rule. Remember, the Government of India did not invoke Article 356 of the Indian Constitution even once during this period. The President kept the state under his rule for almost six years using the executive powers vested in him by the pernicious, anti-people, anti-democratic and fundamentally divisive Article 370.) Omar Abdullah did not tell the people that it was the Chandra Shekhar Government at the Centre that granted the ST status to Gujjars, Bakerwals, Gaddis and so on. He also did not tell the people that although the Gujjars and Bakerwals, besides Gaddis, had been enjoying the ST status since April 1991, the successive Kashmiri-dominated and Valley and one sect-centric governments in the state have always scuttled their demand for political reservation in the state legislature and Parliament. The ST communities in the state are struggling since 1991 to obtain political reservation but with no result. Will Omar Abdullah explain as to why his government has not accepted their demand for political reservation? He will not. He, like other Kashmiri leaders, only know the art of rabble rousing. |
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