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| Pro-Anna wave not crosses Banihal tunnel | | | If any state needs an Anna Hazare type campaign against corruption it is the state of Jammu and Kashmir,possibly after Bihar.Well even from Bihar Anna's crusade against corruption drew a loud response and support and the Chief Minister,Nitish Kumar,was the first chief Minister to lend support to Anna.Presumably Nitish Kumar may have been peeved over the level of corruption that has eaten into the vitals of otherwise poor and backward state.It was,however,surprising that not a soul within the ruling coalition in Jammu and Kashmir was roused by Anna's fast unto death.It was only Chief Minister,Omar Abdullah,who described Anna's protest against corruption as the most democratic way of expression of anger.He would not have meddled into the affairs of Anna and his supporters all over the country had he not been bothered in the past by the violent protests.He would have ignored Anna had he not been teased by the the scenes of employees clashing with the
police,by the physiotherapists staging endless demonstration,by loud protests of the pensioners and so on and so forth.Omar wishes these employees,pensioners,agricultural graduates and unemployed youths to protest like Anna Hazare who had not a single stone in his hand to throw it at the Prime Minister's house.
Well for a change the Jammuites demonstrated their support for Anna's campaign against corruption which ultimat ely forced the Central Government to issue a notification under which a 10-member committee was formed for framing the Lok Pal bill which was to be introduced in the Parliament during the ensuing monsoon session.A soul did not stir in the Kashmir valley.One may say that since peoples' attention had been caught by the assassination of Maulana Showkat Ahmed,Chief of Jamait Ahle Hadees,on Friday they had no time and mood to rally behind Anna Hazare.It is not the case because the people in Kashmir could have demonstrated their support on Tuesday and Thursday.They could have demonstrated joy over Anna's win against the recalcitrant Congress led UPA Government.Anna has shown that if one's determination is strong one can move ahead from a driver to a driving force.Even if the Lok Pak bill was adopted and a new law against
corruption
came into force this central piece of legislation cannot be made applicable to Jammu and Kashmir without the approval of the state legislature.This is the beauty of Article 370 that gives the state of Jammu and Kashmir a special status in the Indian union.
But whether the state legislature gives its approval or adopts it with some modifications as happened in case of the anti-defection law or the new Panchyati Raj Act.But its adoption,in whatever form,is necessary for Jammu and Kashmir where all bodies set up for combating corruption have been made almost defunct and toothless even they are alive on paper.See the fate of the state Accountability Commission and the Vigilance Commission.While the former has remained headless and thus nonfunctional the latter has been denied full autonomy.Cases registered in the Vigilance Commission keep on piling dust and in other cases in the absence of Government sanction graft charges are not being filed in the court.In fact the issue of enacting an effective anti-graft law was raised in 1968 and since then the successive central Governments have been evading enacting a piece of legislation on one pretext or the other with the result the level of
corruption
throughout the country touched new heights.Being a consumer state,depending on financial aid and doles from the centre,the level of graft in Jammu and Kashmir also attained new heights which usually have gone either unnoticed or unpunished.Cases of graft in rest of the country too have gone unpunished in the absence of any stringnent law with the result those indulging in corrupt practices were encourageed.The encouragement in Jammu and Kashmir has been multi-dimensional and hence the state too needs strict anti-graft law.
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