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| PDP misses to table resolution on self-rule in Assembly, likely to hold seminars | | | Early times report
Jammu, Mar 6: Though the PDP has lost an opportunity for moving a resolution on self-rule in the budget session of the Assembly, it has decided to organise seminars in various areas of the state so as to secure peoples' support for it.
Referring to the resolution, a senior PDP member of the Assembly,Nizam-ud-Din Bhat said that his party had sent notices to several resolutions to the Assembly secretariat. However, under the practice of tabling the resolutions after a draw of lots "only four resolutions moved by the PDP had come upfor discussion in the House."
In reply to a question, he said that the purpose of the PDP for moving the resolution in the Assembly was to secure the support of the House so that the adopted resolution could be sent to the Government of India for consideration.In reply to another question he said that it was not binding on the central Government to implement any resolution forwarded to it by any state legislature.
At the same time, the PDP circles said that if its resolution had failed to receive support from the National Conference it would have exposed the ruling party because it has been harping on restoration of greater autonomy.Bhat explained that self-rule was an improvement on greater autonomy demand in the sense that the self rule addressed both the internal and external dimensions of the Kashmir issue while the latter was simply an administrative arrangement between the state and the centre.
Referring to the stand taken by the National Conference-Congress alliance members of the Assembly in opposing the PDP resolutions on withdrawal of troops and the repeal of AFSPA, Bhat said that this stand had exposed the National Conference which had been espousing the cause of reducing troops from the civilian areas and for revoking the AFSPA. He .
Asked why the PDP pressed for putting the two buills to vote when it knew the ruling alliance will not support it Bhat and others said that by doing so "we have succeeded in exposing the double talk of the National Conference leadership.
"He said during the last five months even the Chief Minister had been supporting the demand for withdrawal of troops and for revocation of the AFSPA but when the time had come for the state Assembly to adopt a resolution the NC leadership opposed it.
He said that the NC members had claimed in the House that the troops had vacated 341 Government buildings,590 private houses, 30 hotels and eight cinema halls while the entire credit for this needed to be given to the PDP.
He said that the PDP leadership had been demanding withdrawal of troops and the repeal of the AFSPA since 2002 and what troops were withdrawan and whatever buildings the security forces had vacated had taken place between 2002 and 2008 when the PDP was in power in Jammu and Kashmir.
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