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| >>Tug of war: Kashmir’s love for age old political supremacy and Jammu’s struggle for genuine right | | JKNPP dares to utter K-psychic of Kashmir based parties over delimitation and demilitarization | |
Sanjay Khajuria
Jammu May 29
The Ghulam Nabi Azad government’s move to increase Assembly seats by 25 pc before the 2008 polls has run into rough weather, ending in the arch rivals PDP, NC and CPI jointly to enter in a tug of war with Jammu based parties claiming more seats for Jammu.
Indeed the political parties are in virtual wrestles for the survival and to save their political ideologies viz. Kashmir based parties want Kashmir an upper hand while Jammu based parties demand more seats for the Jammu region.
‘The Kashmir based parties under age old political compulsion has stepped ahead to throw the dice for winning at the same time JKNPP, BJP and other Jammu based parties have dared to challenge any move of government to betray now on seat sharing, some opinioned.
The harsh utterances from JKNPP chief Bhim Singh particularly aiming against PDP for its stand on demilitarization and revocation AFSPA has created more rumbles in state polity. He dared to ask Congress to snap ties with PDP alleging the party for its anti army campaign.
Worth to mention that ‘delimitation issue’ right from the start went in hiccups when in an introductory meeting attended by leaders of all political parties to deliberate upon the 33rd Constitutional Amendment failed to show a consensus. Senior NC leader and leader of the opposition Abdul Rahim Rather dampened the spirits at the start saying ‘the move did not make a sense to him as there was an embargo on such moves all over the country until 2026, why should J&K become an exception.’
Political analysts are in opinion that NC perhaps is opposing the move in an apprehension that any advantage in increased seats to Jammu region could spike its chances of political resurgence in the next Assembly elections in 2008. Similar fears haunt other Kashmir-centric political parties like PDP who earlier harped the slogan of equality among three regions but on the seat sharing it wants Srinagar on the top. By creating four new districts each in Jammu region and the Kashmir Valley, Chief Minister Azad had played a political master stroke to appease K-psychic but it too attracted strong criticism as Janki Nath Wazir Commission was constituted for creating equilibrium between two region to end alleged political and economy had recommended four new districts – three for Jammu region and one for the Valley but Azad’s move went to its contrary.
And thus pro Jammu parties JSM, PRM and JMM has downed the government's decision saying it came notwithstanding the recommendations of creating four more districts by the Wazir Commission appointed by then chief minister Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah in 1980.
And no the direct confrontation on the issue of increasing seats to Jammu under delimitation and giving rights to West Pakistani Refugees the K-psychic has become clear to all that Kashmir centric parties do not want to become a party to the loss of political supremacy of the Kashmir Valley, while political groups with roots in Jammu are pressing for equality in seat sharing.
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