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| A vote for Jammu's territorial integrity | | 2014 polls | | Neha
Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 26: The much-awaited election results are out. The people have again given a fractured mandate. The PDP has emerged as the single largest party winning 25 seats from Kashmir, three from Jammu and none from the Valley. It worked quite hard for almost six years and improved its tally from 21 in 2008 to 28 in 2014 in the 87-member House. The BJP, which had won 11 seats in 2008, performed exceedingly well. It increased its tally by 14 seats. It won 25 seats and has the support of at least five independent MLAs, including those belonging to the People's Conference. The ruling NC, which was quite unpopular, sprung a big surprise by putting up a respectable show and it won 15 seats. It was also expected that the Congress would be relegated to number 4 position and it would not be able to play the role of kingmaker and it actually happened. It won only 12 seats and has become a virtual a marginal political player.
Very significantly, the people of Jammu province decimated the parties like the BSP and the JKNPP, which had never been consistent as far as their ideology and programmes were concerned. Not just this, the people of Jammu province rejected the divisive politics and voted for mainstream politics. They voted in a manner that would surely make the leadership of the Congress and other Kashmir-based and Valley-centric parties sit up to find why they failed to get mandate from Jammu. They have been left with no other option. How else should one describe the very poor performance of the NC and its coalition partner - the Congress - in the Jammu province? The NC lost three seats in Jammu province and won only three seats. In other words, it lost 50 per cent of the seats it had held in Jammu province. The Congress suffered even a worse defeat; its tally was reduced from the exiting 13 to only five. Not just this, the Congress failed to win a single seat in this province where the Hindu electorate constituted a majority. It won five seats where the Muslim electorate constituted a majority. This must make the Congress high command to review its whole policy towards Jammu & Kashmir. That a national party could not win a single Hindu seat in Jammu province could be construed as its biggest ever defeat in Jammu province. It happened for the first time in its very long electoral history in this province, which never got its legitimate due share in the state's political and economic processes.
However, the most significant aspect of the whole situation in Jammu province was that the people of this marginalized region of the country defeated all the negative forces which had worked hard to sell the idea that the Muslims of Jammu province were against the mainstream politics and that they were the votaries of the politics that was being played by the divisive forces in the Valley. They used to say that it was only the people of two and a half districts (read Jammu, Kathua and half of Udhampur districts) who were opposed to the politics, Kashmir-style, and that the aspirations of the people of the remaining seven and half districts were identical with those of Kashmir. The Jammu electorate proved them absolutely wrong. The people from Lakhanpur - the gateway of Jammu & Kashmir - to Ramban and from Lakhanpur to Rajouri voted for the mainstream politics. The BJP won both the seats in Doda district, one seat each in Ramban and Kishtwar districts and two seats from Rajouri district, thus calling the bluff of those who had consistently tried to pit these districts against the other in Jammu province.
The fact of the matter is that the people of Jammu province voted for the unity and territorial integrity of Jammu province and this should be considered as the most significant result of the 2014 very crucial assembly election. The people of Jammu province, including the Muslims, deserve kudos for the manner in which they defeated the ulterior game plan of the vested interests and communal forces in the Valley and established that all sections of society in this province are politically very mature. |
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