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| Congress's vote-bank politics will divide Jammu province | | Playing with fire | | Neha
JAMMU, Mar 3: As elections to the Lok Sabha approach, the jittery and mortally afraid Congress leadership from Jammu province has started airing views to woo the electorate which have all the potential of helping the communal elements in the State who have been seeking to dismember this province and create Greater Kashmir by merging with it areas of Jammu province where the number of believers is slightly more than that of the minority community. The case in point is what the Congress MP on Sunday said while addressing a people's gathering at Kotli Shah, R S Pura.
As a Congress leader he could very well ask the people to join his party and help it win the upcoming Lok Sabha election as he did, but he played with fire when he divided his Lok Sabha constituency seemingly on communal basis and claimed that the Congress alone could safeguard the "interests of people of Jammu and Pir Panjal region". He spoke the language the divisive Kashmiri leadership and its handful of agents in Jammu have been speaking since years now to pit the followers of one region against the other, weaken the ongoing movement in the province for empowerment and divert the attention of the neglected people of the region away from the real issues facing them. He should have simply said that he and his party was committed to safeguarding the interests of all, cutting across party and religious lines, and develop his constituency, if again returned to the Lok Sabha, but he didn't do that. Instead, he chose to communalize his constituency under the misguided notion that his divisive approach will help him win the election.
The Congress MP not only differentiated between the so-called Pir Panjal region and other parts of his Lok Sabha constituency and hailed the Omar Abdullah-led coalition Government, but also urged the gathering to beware of "divisive people" whose politics is based on religious and regional issues. In other words, he sought to give the people understand that the NC and the Congress are secular and other Jammu-based parties are communal and divisive. There is no doubt that the Congress insulted the people of Jammu province who are otherwise known for their commitment to democratic and liberal ethos and have been suffering since October 1948 for this attitude of theirs. The people of Jammu province have seen through the game plan of the ruling coalition. They are convinced that the present regime has harmed their general political and economic rights and interests. They are no more prepared to give legitimacy to the politics of bluff and deceit and will surely avenge their humiliations in the coming elections. The sooner the Congress leadership from Jammu province realizes this, the better. |
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