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| Creation of new administrative units in Jammu irks NC MP | | Biased Leadership | | Rustam
JAMMU, Feb 7: Many Kashmir-based NC leaders are quite unhappy with their own Government of which the Congress is the most crucial constituent. Their grouse against the Government is that it has not treated Kashmir in a fair manner and that it has given a preferential treatment to Jammu and Ladakh by creating more administrative units there.
They have asked the Government to create more administrative units in Kashmir valley. "If in Ladakh and Jammu adjacent villages, not far off from each other, have been granted new administrative units why can't the Government show similar generosity to Kashmiris also.
The creation of new administrative units should not aggravate the sense of discrimination in Kashmir," said NC Rajya Sabha MP Ghulam Nabi Ratanpuri, on Thursday while taking on his own Government.
In fact, Ratanpuri spoke on behalf of the residents of villages and towns who have been saying that their areas were left out of the recent exercise of administrative reorganization. He talked about the people of Wasura, Khrew, Lurgam, Awantipora and Shadimarg also in Pulwama and urged their demands must be conceded. "The Government should show generosity to Kashmir by granting more administrative units on the pattern of Jammu and Ladakh to not aggravate the sense of discrimination in the Valley," he also said.
Let the people of Kashmir get more administrative units, if these are needed. That's not the issue. The issue is the NC leader's bias against the people of Jammu and Ladakh. His comparison of Kashmir with Jammu was uncalled for, as Jammu province is not only underdeveloped but is also far more superior to Kashmir in terms of land area and population.
It would have been better had the NC leader also spoken for the ignored people of Jammu province whose demand seeking five new districts was ignored by the Jammu and Kashmir Cabinet on February 1, when it adopted the Cabinet Sub-Committee's report on new administrative units. The people of Jammu province had been demanding five new districts of R S Pura, Akhnoor, Nowshera, Billawar and one in Udhampur district.
The CSC had made a suggestion to this effect as well saying its suggestion was based on the people's demands, but the Cabinet did not consider the suggestion, thus leaving the people of Jammu province high and dry. |
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