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| ‘New jingle’ in political circles: ‘Youth Policies’ | | | Sanjay Khajuria
Jammu | Dec 7
Gone are the days when the political parties come with slogans like Garibi hatao. The obsession for the traditional and hackneyed slogans seemed to have vanished from state politics in Jammu and Kashmir as the political parties are coining new slogan the ‘youth policies’ for the coming electioneering phase in state due in 2008.
It was the Polls 2002 –when PDP came riding over the ‘Healing Touch and Dialogue with Pakistan’; BJP stuck to traditional stand discrimination with Jammu, Jammu State Morcha (JSM) a new kid on the block coined ‘trifurcation’ while National Conference glued itself to the Regional Autonomy issue with Congress battled the polls with its conventional sloganeering. All this is past now as after five years circumstances have changed forcing the mainstream political parties to mint new sloganeering to woo the masses but youth in particular as the political parties don’t want to face the wrath of the anger simmering within the educated unemployed lot in the state.
It was PDP who scored over other and announced a youth policy and just two days after the PDP unveiled its youth policy, the opposition National Conference also struck the same string to woo the youth sphere in state. The NC came out with its promise, on the condition of its victory in the next Assembly elections, of a special employment policy for the youth in Jammu and Kashmir.
Envisaging an era of peace and development, National Conference president Omar Abdullah gave this assurance at a public meeting held at Mandi in Poonch remarked If NC comes to power in the next Assembly elections, it will bring out a special employment policy for the youth of the trouble-torn state. While NC president assured the youth for special package for youth, the former chief minister and Patron NC Farooq Abdullah found nothing interesting in PDP’s new born child ‘Youth Policy’ and criticized the “youth policy” which was unveiled by Mufti Sayeed in Jammu on Monday last.
Big twos’ in state politics the PDP and the NC have starting checkmating each other in recent past and the NC leadership even satirically reminded the PDP about its unfulfilled promise about ‘to provide one job to every household in the state as assured in the manifesto.’
Whereas the PDP after full pitched cry for demanding troop cut and revocation of the Armed Force Special Powers Act (AFSPA) for over nine months, the party has got time to woo the jobless educated youth in the state ahead of the Assembly elections.
New kid on the block -Youth Policy has become a moon everyone is asking for after PDP the NC has grabbed it as an attempt to woo the jobless educated youth in the state keeping in view other mainstream national political parties jumping into the fray.
The policy hit the zero ground when Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati’s Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and former UP Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav’s Samajwadi Party (SP) indicated their plans to gear up for participation in the Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir with the BJP getting a good boost from LUTF Leader Chhewang who hummed the BJP tunes saying Ladakh is discriminated during coalition regime too.
‘Which way the wind blows’ the coming time will unveil but the unemployment among the educated youth have become the most cherished thing for the political parties and thus have introduced it as a new ‘vote banking scheme’ with ‘good dividends’ at vote bank of politics. It is now perceived that after PDP and NC even Congress may toss the coin with newer choices and aspirations. |
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