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| Bar Association may take the plunge and defend the government decision | | Dogra Certificate Issue | |
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JAMMU, Apr 18: If some reports appearing in a section of the print media are to be believed, and there are no reasons to dismiss these reports as a figment of imagination, then it can be safely assumed that the Bar Association Jammu (BAJ), the premier organization of lawyers and advocates, is likely to take the plunge and take on those in Kashmir who have unleashed a no-holds-barred propaganda campaign against the government order that has entitled the Dogras of Jammu province to obtain Dogra certificates from the concerned revenue authorities. The BAJ has on umpteen occasions identified itself with the genuine Jammu cause.
According to media reports, the BAJ president Bhupinder Singh Slathia, who played a very important role during the 2008 Amarnath land agitation in Jammu despite the fact that he belonged to the Congress party, has met Union Health Minister and former J&K Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad and discussed with him the issue of Dogra certificate. Slathia had also resigned from the prestigious position of Additional Advocate General to devote full time to the people’s cause. He and his team of committed lawyers met Azad on April 15, when the Union Health Minister visited the High Court complex at Janipur. In fact, they discussed with him several issues and one of them was relating to the controversy generated by certain elements in Kashmir, including Syed Ali Shah Geelani and Mirwaiz Umar Farooq. According to the same report, Slathia “has already decided to take up the issue in a big way, if the need for doing so arises.” He has, as per the report, said: “it is not clear why some Kashmiri leaders are making irresponsible and provocative statements.”
He is not the only one who has reportedly decided to take up the issue in a “big way.” There are other lawyers as well who have not taken kindly to the anti-Dogra certificate crusade launched by certain vested interests in Kashmir. They, too, have taken on Syed Ali Shah Geelani and others and accused them of “fomenting trouble in the Valley” and of “misleading the masses by insinuating that this certificate will be
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