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MINCING NO WORDS
NEHA
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Feb 28: The NC and the State Cabinet, headed by the Chief Minister, are virtually humiliating the Deputy Chairman of the Legislative Council and not allowing him to exercise even those powers vested in him by the State Constitution. The Deputy Chairman belongs to the Congress party. He has exercised powers vested in him by the constitution and appointed someone as the Secretary to the Council. He reportedly did so after obtaining legal opinion and obtaining concurrence of the Leader of the House, who also belongs to the Congress. It was this action of the Deputy Chairman that was not liked by the NC.
Unaccommodating and dictatorial, unlike the PDP, as it has all along been, it took an extreme step, made the Cabinet appoint another Secretary to the Council and created a situation under which the Council Secretariat could not meet some of its financial needs. Paradoxically, the Leader of the House, who endorsed the proposal of the Deputy Chairman, is also member of the State Cabinet. This is indeed a strange situation. There are almost half a dozen Congress ministers in the Cabinet and still it has happened. And, this should raise many, many questions and one of the questions could be: Has the Congress ministers completely surrendered? Another question could be: Has the Congress high command decided to humiliate its own men in the state, bind up the party and enable the NC to play its controversial games aimed at weakening the nationalist forces in the state and helping those seeking to communalize the state polity or those seeking to sever the state’s political and constitutional ties with India.
Commenting on the difficulty created by the NC-led government, the Deputy Chairman has reportedly said: “Freezing Council Secretariat’s Bank/ Treasury transactions was a harsh and unjustified decision. It never happened in the history of J&K Legislature. Whatever we have done was within provision of law and (after) examining all legal options. And if the Cabinet feels that it was something beyond the capacity or authority of Council Secretariat, only Governor, who is the constitutional head of the State, has the authority to intervene and resolve the issue. I still believe that issue should be resolved amicably by two sides."
Right now, the position is there are two secretaries to the Legislative Council and the result has been a deadlock between the Deputy Chairman and the Government, with the Council not in a position to operative its accounts. That the NC has allowed this impasse between the Deputy Chairman and the government to continue even at a time when the budget session has started only serves to demonstrate one thing: The NC treats the Congress as its B-team whose only function it is to obey the master even if that amounts to breach of coalition dharma. One can easily anticipate the grave consequences the deadlock would result into.
The Deputy Chairman has reportedly brought the whole issue to the notice of the Congress high command and sought its immediate intervention so that the issue is resolved. The JKPCC chief, who also happens to be the Chairman of the NC-Congress coordination committee, which seldom meets for reasons best known to him and the Chief Minister or which has virtually been rendered ineffective by the NC or where the Congress has no role to play, has also met with the Chief Minister and discussed the whole issue with him in order to resolve the same amicably, but with no result. He has also reportedly met with the State Governor and urged him to intervene in the matter and help diffuse the crisis. The very fact that the JKPCC had to meet the Governor to discuss this petty issue brings to the fore the fact that there are serious differences between the NC and the Congress and that there are Congress ministers who, instead of supporting their colleague, endorsed the decision that created constitutional crisis.
One thing is now very clear: The NC, which cannot remain in power even for a day without the congress’ support, rules the roost and plays all the shots and the local Congress unit finds itself in a piquet situation, with not even the party high command asserting its position and defending its own unit in the state. It’s so helpless. It has been happening ever since the formation of the NC-Congress coalition government. It’s obvious that the Congress is at the receiving end. What has gone wrong with the grand old party of India? Why is it not asserting? Is there any kind of deal?
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