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| CU: Omar feels the heat, students win & Jammu leadership loses | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, July 25: This is the meaning students' power. This is the power of young India. This is the power of the young Dogras and this is the power of the young Panthers, soldiers of the JKNPP who have virtually brought the state government to their knees. The case in point is the realization on the part of the beleaguered and alarmed J&K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah that any more delay in the establishment of the promised Central University in Jammu would surely culminate in a massive agitation in Jammu against his government. The very fact that he had to talk to the Union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal this afternoon and urge him to take steps calculated to make the university functional forth with, appoint its first Vice-Chancellor and start the academic session this very year itself establish that he has felt the heat and realized that his government would go lock, stock and barrel in case there is anymore delay in the establishment of Central University in Jammu. The young Panthers deserve congratulations and their top leadership also deserves kudos for the simple reason that it gave unbridled freedom to the young Panthers to agitate in the manner they deemed fit.
It is not for the first time that the students have succeeded in bringing the otherwise adamant and hostile authorities to their knees. A peep into the history of Jammu's empowerment suggests that it was only the students of the Jammu province who, and not the Jammu leaders, without any exception, including those belonging to the Congress and the BJP parties, have succeeded to an extent in making the adamant and anti-Dogra authorities in the state and New Delhi to concede the genuine demands of the people of Jammu province. The fact is that it was the spectacular role of the student community of Jammu province that forced the frightened and cornered successive governments in the state to appoint high-powered commissions to look into their complaints and suggest remedial measures.
A reference to just three instances in this regard would be in order. In the sixties, the student community launched a full-scale movement for the establishment of Jammu University. Four students lost their lives for the cause and the result was the appointment of Gajendragadkar Commission. The Commission, among other things, recommended establishment of a separate university in Jammu. This recommendation was accepted and the result was the establishment of University of Jammu in 1969. Again, in 1998, the students of Jammu struggled for more than two months and the results were three: establishment of Shri mata Vaishno Devi University at Katra, establishment of Agricultural University at R S Pura and appointment of the R P Singhal Committee that recommended that all the seats available with the Jammu province-based medical and engineering colleges should be the sole preserve of the Jammu youth. The report, which was submitted by the committee in 1999, has not been implanted yet because the Jammu leadership didn't recognize the nature of sacrifices the Jammu student community made for the cause. It is again because of the students' pressure that Omar Abdullah has made a passionate plea to the highly controversial Sibal to establish the Central University in Jammu before it is too late.
Let us see what kind of response the Chief Minister's passionate and desperate plea evokes from the arrogant Sibal. Still the fact remains that the Jammu student community has once again demonstrated it strength and shown the Jammu-based its leaders their rightful place. Indeed, students of Jammu province are the last hope of the people of Jammu province. |
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