Early Times Report
Jammu, June 18: The Congress is slowly but surely raking up the issue of Regional Council for the Jammu region. The party has decided to focus on it to regain its lost ground. The party is of the view it could blunt the aggressive posturing of the BJP, which is on swing after the success in the Parliamentary elections.
The party after serious rethinking of the post-poll scenario had decided that it could be its best and last bet to regain the Jammu region. The party had already suffered in the 2008 election held after the Amarnath land agitation, which allowed BJP to make highest gains in the region.
According to party sources, the party wants to prove that it's serious at providing equal rights to the Jammu region, which long has feeling being discriminated by the Kashmir.
The concept of regional council also falls good in the Congress scheme of things, as it will not antagonize the Kashmir region, where the party is trying hard to make some political gains.
"It's after this that senior party leaders, including Ministers, had decided to rake up this issue. It will take away the political advantage, the BJP feels it has got," said a senior Congress Minister.
The party has told the Central leadership that it should also support its demand, which according to sources is not opposed to the move.
The other move of the Congress to take sheen out of the political move of the BJP is to go and tell the people that the Jammu region had got its political say and power which resulted in the development of the region is because the Congress has been in the power for the last 12 years.
The party will also tell the people that BJP can't come to power on its own, and it would be very difficult for any Kashmir based party to seek its support in the State, as it could spell political doom for the party there.
"BJP MLAs have already been exposed by the Omar. The party will now tell the people, that if they vote for them in Assembly, the development of Jammu could be a casualty and this could pose serious political danger to them," said a senior Congress leader. |
