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| Vakil also jumps on to the Geelani’s anti-Dogra bandwagon | | Dogra Certificate | | MINCING NO WORDS
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EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Apr 27: Senior Congress leader and former cabinet minister Abdul Gani Vakil is very angry these days. He is angry for two main reasons. One is that the National Conference-Congress coalition government failed to deliver on any front. “The coalition government has failed on every front to solve the problems of the people,” Vakil said on Monday while addressing people in the north Kashmir’s Baramulla district. Vakil’s comments on the working of the coalition government could be legitimately construed as a scathing attack on the National Conference-led coalition government. Besides, the manner in which he publicly censured the state government did suggest that the relations between the two coalition partners are far from normal and that the coalition government may not complete its full term.
Vakil is not an ordinary Kashmiri politician. He is a senior Congress leader and he has his connections with one top Congress leader, who occupies an important position in the Union Council of Ministers. It is very significant to note that till the other day he used to shower praises on the coalition government. That he has suddenly changed his stance does suggest that something serious has happened that he has failed to digest.
The other reason that has added to the Vakil’s anger is the decision of the state’s revenue department to issue Dogra certificates to the Dogras of Jammu province eager to join the New Delhi-controlled paramilitary forces. Commenting on the government order, Vakil said: “A minister (read Raman Bhalla of the Congress) issues an order on a sensitive issue like Dogra certificate and the Chief Minister doesn’t know” and asked: “How come a minister issued such an order without the consent of the cabinet.”
That Vakil took his own party colleague to task for the decision he took on Dogra certificate indicated not just his bitter opposition to the Dogras, but it also indicated that he is no different from Syed Ali Shah Geelani of Tehrik-e-Hurriyat and other Kashmiri leaders who have been opposing vehemently Raman Bhalla and the state government and accusing them of working for the creation of Duggar Desh since March 25 and that the Congress is vertically divided into several camps.
It is time for JKPCC chief Saif-ud-Din Soz, who has not uttered a single word against Raman Bhalla or the state government, to step in and rein in backward-looking and anti-Dogra elements to protect and advance further the Congress interests in Jammu province. His intervention has become absolutely necessary. He must see to it that nothing whatever is done that has the potential of appeasing elements like Geelani and Vakil and putting the Dogras on the warpath and nothing is done that pits one section of the Congress against the other.
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