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| Jammu, Ladakh looking towards Delhi for justice, empowerment | | Beginning of a new era | | Neha
JAMMU, May 27: On May 26, the Congress rule ended in the country and the rule of the BJP-led NDA under the leadership of Narendra Modi commenced. The commencement of the BJP rule has been taken by the people across the country, including Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh, to mean the return of hope and joy for the future. Achhe din aane wale hain (good days are coming) is the hope of the people across the nation. The hope has stemmed from the fact that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has made a categorical commitment that his Government would stem all the rot and hand down to the people a truly and genuinely people-centric, corruption-free, transparent and accountable administration and administration that treats all the regions and all the social segments equally.
The people have expressed the hope that the new Prime Minister, who pledged to achieve for India a status in the comity of self-respecting nations and regenerate the socio-economic and political life of the nation, would surely measure up to their expectation and replicate the Gujarat model across the country after making necessary changes here and there taking into consideration the specific needs of different states and Union Territories. His first message to the nation after taking the oath of office has, in fact, electrified the country's whole political scene.
The people of Jammu province and Ladakh region have many grievances and complaints. One of their major complaints is that the Kashmiri ruling elite and its henchmen in Jammu and Ladakh have rendered them unreal and ineffective for all practical purposes and that they have little or no say in the governance of the state. They have been longing for a regime since 1947 that gives them proper representation in the Assembly, Council of Ministers and Cabinet, Civil Secretariat, service sector, technical and professional institutions, including medical and engineering colleges and agricultural universities. They have also been demanding definite political instruments that end the Valley-domination over them and enable them to administer their own affairs themselves in the manner they deem fit. These are some of the complaints of the people of these two neglected, marginalized and humiliated regions.
Then there are certain social groups in Jammu province who have been leading a miserable life. They need a special attention and preferential treatment. There are over one lakh refugees from West Pakistan who do not have the citizenship rights despite the fact that they have been staying in Jammu since 1947. There are Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes who have been deprived by the discriminatory and essentially communal Kashmiri leadership of the rights which are available to their counterparts all across the country. There are daughters of the state who are married outside the state and whose children cannot own their mothers' property located in the state and nor are they eligible for Government jobs in the state. Then there are over three lakh internally-displaced Kashmiri Hindus, nearly one million refuges from PoJK, border migrants and refugees of 1965 and 1971. They have been crying for justice since decades, but with no result. Agriculturists, small and marginal farmers, traders and transporters and those engaged in various industries have their own specific problems that needed to taken note of at the earliest.
The fact of the matter is that the people of Jammu province and Ladakh are looking forward towards the new dispensation for justice and empowerment. There are reasons to believe that something good is in the offing. As for the political parties, which are active in Jammu and Ladakh and which are in power, are also required to discharge their obligations towards the people. It's a must. For, the general view in these two regions is that their leadership has failed them. |
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