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| Pot calling kettle black | | Congress-BJP: which is communal in Jammu? | | Early Times Report
Jammu, June 5: For years the Congress party has been pumping its lungs out to blame the rival BJP for furthering a communal agenda in Jammu and Kashmir but it has ended up itself doing the same business.
While during Amarnath land agitation the scores of Congress leaders rubbed shoulders with BJP in whatever it was espousing at the same time accused it of communalizing the situation. Communal undercurrents in the Congress, particularly in its Jammu unit, were again felt recently when some its leaders made strange noises on selection of two Ministers from Jammu and Kashmir in the UPA government.
Dr Farooq Abdullah of the National Conference and Ghulam Nabi Azad of Congress were inducted Ministers as UPA apparently wanted to induct one member each from two alliance partners in the state. The UPA could not have afforded to carry on board more than two Ministers from a small state like Jammu and Kashmir which returns only six members to the Lok Sabha.
However, some Congress leaders in Jammu have described this as a communal selection. They have minced no words in saying that Hindus have got raw deal in such a process. It is true that no Hindu, particularly from Jammu, could get a place in the UPA cabinet, but it is highly misleading and politically dangerous at part of Congress to draw such conclusions which clearly leave the society divided on communal lines.
No such statement was made by any leader from Congress during formation of NC-Congress coalition government in the state earlier this year when merit and justification was completely overlooked to enthuse a sense of confidence among the members of minority community in Jammu region. As per the coalition arrangement between two parties, the post of Deputy Chief Minister came to the Congress camp and particularly to Jammu region. Among Congress leaders elected in last assembly elections Choudhary Mohammad Aslam was the most senior, meritorious and experienced leader but the party preferred an uninspiring Tara Chand for the post of Deputy Chief Minister who has hardly been able to make any difference to his office or the party or even the community.
The Congress leaders who talked about political victimization of Hindus again conveniently forgot that out of the five Ministers in Jammu and Kashmir cabinet, three are from Jammu and exactly from the same community which they feel is being marginalized by the party.
In a recent press conference, an old right wing ideologue, Prof Hari Om, who is now in the Congress camp came up with this complaint against the party. One could have expected this from Hari Om for his BJP soul in Congress body but one of the leaders from the Congress put straight position of the party on the issue which has all potential of creating rift between two communities.
Hari Om’s apparent attempt was make a case for Jammu-Poonch MP Madan Lal Sharma but the same could have been projected on merits instead of religion.
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