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| Mustafa Kamaal provoking explosions in Jammu | | Muslim CM from Valley | | Neha
Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 30: Vested interests in Kashmir are hatching a conspiracy against Jammu and describing the demand in Jammu for a Chief Minister from this region as communal, anti-Kashmir and anti-constitutional. The comprehensively defeated Mustafa Kamaal, additional general secretary of the National Conference, which also suffered the worst-ever defeat in the just-held Assembly elections, has even gone to the extent of saying that since J&K is a Muslim-majority State, its Chief Minister has to be a Muslim from Kashmir. Kamaal lost his security deposit in the assembly election. He had sought to re-enter the assembly from the Gulmarg Assembly constituency, but got relegated to the fourth position.
"We can put it in this way that J&K is the Muslim majority state and constitution clearly says that a person from a majority can become the head of the state," he had on Monday said when asked "if it means that a Hindu CM demand is unconstitutional". He also said that the "constitution has declared it (J&K should have always a Muslim Chief Minister) after thorough deliberations as the state has witnessed 500 years foreign rule and 100 years Dogra rule in the past." "If it is written in the Constitution that only a Muslim can become the Chief Minister, the BJP must not grudge over it. They must give up their communal agenda," he further said.
Kamaal, who termed the Dogras of Jammu as foreigners or aliens, only crossed the line when he sought to mislead the people by saying that the J&K Constitution only provides for a Muslim Chief Minister and that since the J&K Constitution is clear on this issue. No one should demand Chief Minister from Jammu province or Ladakh region, he shamelessly said.
There is nothing whatsoever in the J&K Constitution that the Chief Minister of the State has to be a Muslim. It is a different matter that the State till date was governed or misgoverned by Chief Ministers from the Valley. Congress bigwig Ghulam Nabi Azad, who himself suffered a massive defeat in the Lok Sabha election at the hands of BJP candidate Jitendra Singh and under whose leadership the Congress suffered a massive defeat even in the erstwhile Doda district, is ethnically a Kashmiri.
It is not only Mustafa Kamaal, who abused the Dogras by terming them foreigners and has bitterly opposed the demand in Jammu for Chief Minister from Jammu. Almost all the Kashmiri politicians and the so-called members of Kashmiri civil society have also expressed the view that the people of Jammu province have no right to lead J&K and that the Chief Minister has to be from the Valley. Some Kashmiri activists have even gone to the extent of threatening that "there will be a revolt in Kashmir if a Chief Minister from Jammu is imposed on us".
The point is that the likes of Mustafa Kamaal are provoking political explosions in Jammu province by ridiculing and insulting the Dogras, or for that the people of Jammu province. One cannot expect any good word for the people of Jammu province, including Muslims. But where are those secular commentators who had been denouncing the demand in Jammu for Hindu Chief Minister as communal? Why are not they condemning those in Kashmir who are brazenly indulging in communalism and saying that the state has to have a Muslim Chief Minister from Kashmir? It's time for the people of Jammu province to sit up and discuss the implications of what the likes of Kamaal have been saying in order to scuttle the Jammu's demand. |
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