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| BJP MLAs' cross voting and PP MLAs support for PDP two different issues | | | Early Times Report
jammu, April 23: Does the Panthers Party decision to support the PDP candidates in the recent Legislative council election warrant action against the three MLAs of the party ?Voices keep on multiplying which favour strict action against the seven BJP MLAs who indulged in cross voting and against three Panthers Party legislators who sided with the PDP.
But if the entire issue pertaining to the Legislative council elections is studied between the lines one is convinced that the one pertaining to the BJP MLAs' role and the other relating to the Panthers Party decision are two different matters.
Explaining it the working chairman of the Panthers Party, Harsh Dev Singh,has said that while the BJP MLAs defied the party whip the Panthers Party MLAs abided by the decision of the Party leadership. He said though the party had fielded Faqir Nath from Jammu but it withdrew its candidate in favour of the PDP after the Panthers Party leadership announced its decision to withdraw from the contest.
Harsh Dev said that the party supremo and chairman, Prof. Bhim Singh, welcomed the decision of Faqir Nath who withdrew from the contest in favour of the PDP candidate, Bharat Bushan Gupta. He said that the Panthers Party MLAs had not been issued any whip and if there was any party decision it was to support the PDP "Where does then the question of action against three party MLAs rise ?"Harsh Dev asked.
He said against this the seven BJP MLAs had defied the party whip. The BJP had fielded its candidate and issued a whip under which it had become mandatory for the party MLAs to vote for the BJP candidate. He said that it was clear violation of the party whip and discipline when the seven BJP MLAs voted in favour of ruling coalition candidates.
Harsh explained that the Panthers Party decision to support the PDP was not a one-sided story because the PDP had assured "us" its support for "our candidate" in Poonch, Mohd. Saleem. He said the PDP fulfilled its commitment with the result "our candidate" Mohd. Saleem polled 24 votes, which included 21 from the PDP.
Reports suggested that following the decision of the Panthers Party to strengthen its bases in Poonch, Rajouri, Doda, Kishtwar and Udhampur it decided to keep the BJP at an arms length. Reports said that the BJP too had been against supporting the Panthers Party candidate possibly because the BJP MLAs had already conceived the plan of supporting the ruling coalitions candidates in the Legislative council election.
According to these reports, Panthers Party leadership had stopped treating the PDP as an untouchable entity which it had become during the 2008 Amarnath land row. This has been the reason that a senior party leader of the stature of Manjit Singh had lost the Assembly election from the Vijaypur constituency in 2008 when in 2002 he had won from the same constituency. Possibly to ensure survival in politics Manjit Singh had resigned from the PDP and joined the Congress.
However, during the last two years the PDP has started gaining its foothold in various areas of the Jammu region which was evident from peoples' response to its protest demonstrations it held at tehsil headquarters in the region on April 9.
Besides this, it was for the first time that two of the four MLAs of the Panthers Party had been inducted in the council of ministers headed by Mufti Mohd. Sayeed (2002-2005). And the moment Ghulam Nabi Azad took over as Chief Minister he did not give berth to any Panthers Party MLA in the cabinet despite the fact that Azad had appreciated the work of Harsh Dev Singh as the Minister for Education. This way the equation that was hammered out by the Panther Party and the PDP was not a novel experiment as the two had joined hands in 2002. |
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