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| Hari Om accuses Congress of strengthening votaries of autonomy | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Mar 23
Decrying Congress for appointing Union Minister of Water Resources, Saif-ud- Soz as JKPCCI Chief, Bhartiya Janta Party on Sunday accused Congress of strengthening votaries of autonomy in Jammu and Kashmir, who want the Union Government to restrict New Delhi's jurisdiction over the State to just three subjects- Defence, Foreign Affairs and Communication.
Addressing media persons here on Sunday, BJP Vice President and Spokesman, Prof. Hari Om said the appointment of the Union Minister of Water Resources, Prof. Saif-ud-Din Soz, as the JKPCC-I President is a signal that the Congress has made up its mind to strengthen those who want the Union Government to restrict New Delhi's jurisdiction over the State to just three subjects – Defence, Foreign Affairs and Communication plus full financial assistance to the State – and leave the rest to the care of the Kashmiri leadership, which abhors every thing Indian and advocates those measures which gives respectability to communalism, gun culture or terrorism and accommodates to the extent possible the view point of the aggressor and essentially theocratic and feudalistic Pakistan.
"How else should one interpret the appointment of someone as the JKPCC-I President, who is a known votary of greater autonomy, bordering on sovereignty; who has written extensively on the necessity to grant autonomy to Jammu and Kashmir on the spurious plea that such an action would end alienation in Kashmir," he added.
He further said that Soz owes his political rise to the National Conference, which has at no point of time considered Jammu and Kashmir as an integral part of India. Not only this, his role in the round table conferences and in the meetings of the working groups on Center-State relations is too well known
Criticizing successive state governments for ignoring refugees from West Pakistan, he said that the Union Minister of State for Home Affairs, Manik Rao Gavit, has set things right and plainly told the Lok Sabha that it is for the Government of Jammu and Kashmir to grant citizenship rights to them.
"It is time for the State Government to act and act very fast and amend the State Constitution so that these hapless refugees enjoy all those rights which are available to the Permanent Residents of the State," Hari Om said.
He, however, hastened to add that Congress-led coalition government in the State and the main opposition National Conference would not redress the 60-year-old human problem of these refugees.
Our apprehension is not misplaced and it stems from what the ruling coalition and the National Conference shamelessly did in the 2007 budget session, when it rejected outright the Private Member's Bill to that effect and misled the whole nation saying that it was for the Union Government, and not for the State Government, to grant citizenship rights to the refugees from West Pakistan," he said. |
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