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| BAJ demands CM from Jammu, advocates full integration & opposes autonomy & self-rule | | Meeting With Interlocutors -- I | |
STARK REALITY
RUSTAM
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Apr 26: Bar Association Jammu (BAJ) is the premier organization of lawyers and advocates. Ever since its inception, it has been playing two roles. It has been promoting the cause of lawyers, advocates and all those engaged in the legal profession and it has been fighting for the cause of Jammu, as also fighting for integration of Jammu and Kashmir into India. It played great role during the 1966-67 and 1979 students’ movement; it played a unique role during the Darbar movement during the rule of Farooq Abdullah; it contributed a lot to the 1998 students’ movement; and it contributed significantly to the success of the movement the people of Jammu province started in June 2008 against those who had vitiated the communal atmosphere in the state by snatching from the Amarnath Shrine Board the Baltal land in Kashmir. All these were successful movements.
That the BAJ would never ever deviate from the path it has been consistently treading since it inception again became more than evident on April 23, 2011, when BAJ president B S Slathia and his team met with interlocutors Dileep Padgaonkar, Radha Kumar and M M Ansari in Jammu to put across their point of view. They not only had a detailed discussion with the interlocutors on the issues facing the state in general and the people of Jammu province in particular, but also emphasized the need of rotational Chief Minister and complete integration of the state into India. Besides, they told the visiting interlocutors that the BAJ would oppose tooth and nail any move that is calculated to appease and please the autonomists or those seeking self-rule for the state. In other words, they plainly told the interlocutors that they would fight out those seeking a dispensation outside the political and constitutional organization of India. Complete integration of the state into India was, and is, their motto, battle-cry and watchword was the main upshot of their whole argument.
It would be only desirable to reflect on the issues they raised during their quite lengthy meeting with the interlocutors, as such an exercise would help readers of the Early Times understand what the BAJ actually stands for. As mentioned, one of the issues they raised was regarding rotational Chief Minister. They told the interlocutors that the appointment of someone from Jammu as the state Chief Minister was imperative. In this regard, they said: “When Jammu province is bigger in size and has more voters, as compared to Kashmir, its legitimate entitlement for more seats in the Parliament, State Assembly and Panchayats has always been ignored by the (successive) State Governments…This obviously blocks the possibility of any person from Jammu province to head the government in J&K, as a Chief Minister from Jammu province is not acceptable to the Kashmir-centric political elite. The (story of) fate of the only Chief Minister (read Ghulam Nabi Azad) from Jammu province till date is known to everyone. The BAJ hereby proposes rationalization of the Lok Sabha, Vidhan Sabha and Panchayat seats in J&K by adopting a fair/uniform criteria in delimitation of the same.”
From what they said to the interlocutors in this regard, it was clear that are for a system that recognizes the people of Jammu province as an equal partner in the governance of the state and that empowers them to have a Chief Minister from their province on a rotational basis. Theirs’ was indeed a rational approach. (To be continued)
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