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| Anti-Jammu forces up the ante | | 'Scientific rigging' | | Rustam
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 29: The possibility of some politicians from Jammu province leading the state has unnerved Kashmiri separatists, Kashmiri politicians, Kashmiri commentators and opinion-makers and members of Kashmiri civil society. They have all joined hands to see to it that no politician from Jammu becomes Chief Minister of the state. They have advanced several arguments to build up their case and warned all the concerned that any move to install a Jammu politician as the Chief Minister would be resisted in Kashmir. Kashmiris will not accept anyone from Jammu as Chief Minister of the state, they in one voice have started saying.
The likes of Gilani have even went to the extent of saying that it would be construed as scientific rigging if the office of Chief Minister is snatched from Kashmir or if any BJP lawmaker from Jammu makes it to the top job in the state. Elections 2014 in this border State have a lesson and a warning for those who wish to see the Kashmiri Muslim exhausted, humiliated and helpless, the London-based Kashmiri Syed Nazir Gilani has said in his nasty write-up, adding that any move on the part of anyone to transfer political power from Kashmir to Jammu would be counter-productive, as it has the potential of further alienating Kashmiri Muslims from New Delhi.
"The PDP, NC and the Congress have campaigned against the entry of BJP in the Valley in particular. As a general rule, disallowing any political opinion to reach public during elections is undemocratic. It is unfair to mislead a voter against any political opinion, be it BJP. The Valley voter has listened to PDP, NC, Congress and independents that BJP is a 'danger' and needs to be kept away from the Valley. It would be very difficult for the PDP, NC, Congress and Independents to cobble a government with BJP and start justifying that there was no danger any more. Asking people to keep the BJP away during elections for a personal reason and after elections facilitating the BJP to govern would be a scientific rigging of the kind of 1987," he has, inter-alia, said.
His is a bogus, communally-motivated and patently anti-Jammu argument. Jammu is part of the state like Kashmir and Ladakh are. It is for the elected members to choose their leader for leading the state. There is no provision in the state constitution which says that the office of the Chief Minister is the sole preserve of Kashmir. Anyone from the state can become the Chief Minister provided he has the required support behind him/her. By describing the formation of government under someone from Jammu as scientific rigging, he and others of his ilk are only creating a volcanic situation in the state. They should remember that the today's Jammu is a different ballgame and they would commit a serious blunder if they dared to take the people of Jammu province for a ride. The days of the Kashmiri domination are over. The state needs a government that treats all sections of society equally at all levels. |
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