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| Pressure mounting tactics or rhetoric to play down infighting.....? | | PYC's latest on 73rd amendment: Resume agitation | | Kunal Shrivatsa
JAMMU, Dec 29: It was no less dignitary than All India Congress Committee (AICC) Vice-President Rahul Gandhi himself who during his visit to Jammu promised to extend the 73rd Amendment of the Indian Constitution to J&K for empowering the panchayats.
In what was seen as some meaningful assertion, he vowed that he would pressurize the state government for the same while addressing a Panchayat Conference here. Over a month on, this assertion has proved to be yet rhetoric with nothing changed on the political ground viz-a-viz this issue.
"If I did not want to listen to your voices, would I have come here? I have come here to listen to you… I will pressurize the state government and fight for your rights," Rahul Gandhi told the gathering of thousands of Panchs and Sarpanchs on November 6 last.
However, it seems Gandhi's assertion has no bearing on the National Conference-Congress coalition government in the state headed by Omar Abdullah as the Pradesh Youth Congress (PYC) has announced to resume its agitation, which was called off 7-8 months back after the state government promised to implement the 73rd Amendment.
The announcement was made by the President PYC Shahnawaz Choudhary and General Secretary Manjeet Singh Jatt while addressing media persons here today.
PYC President Shahnawaz Choudhary said that the youth wing of the party has made up its mind to again go for an agitation from tomorrow to mount pressure on government for 73rd Amendment's implementation.
Choudhary said, "Since the state government has failed to extend the 73rd Amendment to J&K we are forced to re-launch the agitation to press for the demand… Thousands of Panchs and Sarpanchs are feeling betrayed over the non-implementation of the Amendment in the state."
"The delaying tactics adopted by the state government are unacceptable to Youth Congress which stands committed to the implementation of the Amendment…. We had called off our stir after Omar Saheb gave assurance that 73rd Amendment of the Constitution will be implemented in letter and spirit…. In view of the dilly dallying tactics of the government we have left with no other option but to protest," he added.
Meanwhile, insiders within PYC told Early Times that the decision to hold protest demonstration to press for implementation of one of the most sought after agenda of the party is nothing but actually a rhetoric and a move to divert attention from infighting in the junior wing of the Congress
Sources further said that protest is a creation of some leaders, who want to project their names for the forthcoming Lok Sabha election and the Assembly poll later this year.
"Why the Youth Congress leadership remained silent for so long…. Now suddenly they began to shout from rooftops that non-implementation of 73rd Amendment is gross violation of the coalition dharma and that CM has deceived the panchayat members as well as Congress," sources said.
It is not only that own party cadre is raising fingers on party's 'uncertain' stand on empowerment of Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) even patron PDP Mufti Mohammad Sayeed took pot shots at Congress for indulging in 'shadow boxing' with its coalition partner National Conference on 73rd Amendment of the Indian Constitution.
"Instead of publicly raising such demands, Congress leaders should take such issues in the Cabinet," Mufti said while addressing a public rally on Saturday at Arnia.
Amid all this hullabaloo, now it would be interesting to see how the PYC leadership builds up pressure on the State Government for the implementation of 73rd Amendment when Rahul Gandhi being the Vice President of AICC and Incharge Indian Youth Congress (IYC) couldn't influence his 'good friend' Omar Abdullah. |
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