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| Rehabilitation Policy: Cong under severe attack | | | NEHA
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Nov 26: The J&K unit of the BJP is up in revolt against the Congress. It has been asking the JKPCC to clear its stand not only on the Chief Minister's October 6 accession/merger assembly statement but also on the rehabilitation policy that is designed to induce the nearly 3000 PoK and Pakistan-based militants of Kashmir origin to return to the Valley. So much so, it has been organizing meetings to educate the public opinion about the dangerous ramification of the Chief Minister's statement and the return and rehabilitation policy. Its main target is the Congress party. The reasons are obvious. One of the reasons is that the Congress is its main political rival in the Jammu province. By attacking the Congress, the BJP is seeking to two things - extension and consolidation of its support-base in the province and convince the people that it is the Congress that is giving unstinted support to the Chief Minister who has been making what it calls "anti-national" statements and pursuing "pro-militant" policies.
The JKNPP has also upped its ante and unleashed a no-holds-barred campaign against the Congress. It has been saying that it is the Congress which is basically responsible for the adoption of this highly dangerous rehabilitation policy. It, like the BJP, has also been asking the Congress to clear its stand on the issue. It has organized a couple of press conferences to register its opposition to the return and rehabilitation policy and indicated its resolve to ensure the collapse of this policy by intensifying its propaganda.
The Bar Association Jammu (BAJ), too, has expressed its unhappiness over the decision of the NC-Congress coalition government to facilitate the return of militants to Kashmir. It even went to the extent of suspending work today to register its most emphatic protest against the NC-Congress coalition government. The fact is that there is not a single political group in Jammu, barring the Congress, the NC and PDP, that has not denounced the controversial decision and demanded its reversal saying this decision, if implemented, would endanger the national security and help Pakistan and Kashmiri militants achieve what they couldn't during all these 63 years of the state's accessions to India.
No one can brush aside the arguments advanced by the BJP, the JKNPP, the BAJ and others against the return and rehabilitation policy. Their arguments are well-founded. The return and rehabilitation policy, if given effect to, would surely strengthen the otherwise Kashmir-based demoralized and defeated terrorist groups and pose a live challenge to the national security. Those who the NC-Congress coalition government wants to return to Kashmir or not just trained militants. They are highly indoctrinated jihadis. They have been there in PoK and Pakistan since years and they have been taught in the terror producing seminaries nothing but hatred and contempt for India. The Chief Minister's Thursday Jammu University statement that the return and rehabilitation policy would not threaten national security was nothing but a cunning attempt to mislead and hoodwink the public opinion. To trust what he said would be to walk into the dangerous trap.
It is strange that the Congress has been maintaining eerie silence despite the relentless campaign unleashed against it by the BJP, the JKNPPP and other groups. It is not good politics. Its silence will cost it very dearly. It should remember that the Chief Minister has nothing to lose in Jammu province because his constituency is Kashmir, as also because his government and the NC have become thoroughly unpopular in Jammu province. Whatever he has been doing and saying ever since he became the Chief Minister it is as per the strategy he has worked out to weaken the PDP in Kashmir and consolidate his constituency there.
There is still time for the Congress to recognize the signs of the time and take remedial measures. The best thing for it to do would be to come out openly against the NC, force the Chief Minister to withdraw his assembly statement and dissociate itself from the return-cum-rehabilitation decision to which it willingly became a party. No, politics demands withdrawal of the support to the NC-led government. If the Congress takes such a bold step, it would sweep elections in the Jammu province. Not only this, such a decision would also help the Congress to a considerable extent at the national level. |
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