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| Without Cong support, PRD Bill likely to get defeated | | | Early Times Report
Jammu,Mar 15: The Congress high command is said to have suggested to the National Conference leadership to initiate measures so that the controversial Permanent resident (Disqualification) Bill is not taken up for discussion and vote in the state legislature. This suggestion follows reports Delhi had received that once the Bill was introduced and put to vote it may further add to the regional and communal tension in the already troubled state.
Sources said that the Congress high command has fears that the party MLAs and MLCs may split while voting on the controversial Bill under the regional pull.It is so because the majority of people in the Kashmir valley continue to be opposed to women marrying non-state subjects. After the Congress in Jammu and Kashmir has opened its cards by saying that its MLAs and MLCs will oppose the Bill thre Panthers Party leader,Harsh Dev Singh,said that even if the PDP and the National Conference join hands and legislators belonging to these two parties vote in favour of the Bill the constitutional amendment bill wll not be adopted because the NC and the PDP may not succeed in mustering a two-third support for the Bill.He said if the two work hard they may be able to secure a support of 49 to 51 MLAs for the Bill when for the adoption of the Bill the support of 58 MLAs was needed. He said that the NC and the PDP were trying to play the poltics of vote bank.He said that the National Confer ence and the PDP leadership wanted to keep their vote bank in the valley in tact by raking up the Permanent Resident (Disqualification) bill. Harsh Dev and Ashok Khajuria,BJP member of the Assembly,said that by trying to adopt the Bill the NC and the PDP were trying to muzzle the fundamental rights of the women of the state.
They said it was surprising that on one hand the National Conference and the PDP leadership were in favour of empowerment of women and reservation Bill but on the other they were throttling the right of women to marry as per their wishes. Indications are that the National Conference may try to bail itself out of the controversy by either creating a situation which will facilitate the Bill to get lapsed or refer the bill to the select committee
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