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| Appointment of CU VC does not address real issues in Jammu | | Needed: A Political Solution | | Rustam
Jammu, Aug 10: The appointment of former Chief Secretary to J&K Government SS Bloeria as Vice-Chancellor of Central University (CU) of Jammu has been hailed by those who didn't utter a single word during all these 40 days of strong protests against the indifferent authorities. The case in point is the August 9 statement issued by certain JKPCC office-bearers as well as a couple of Congress MLCs. They remained in hibernation throughout this period and came out of the shells the moment the frightened and alarmed authorities appointed Bloeria as Vice-Chancellor of the yet-to-be-established-CU. But it was not altogether unexpected. Others who maintained a very long distance from the agitating student community or who held aloof from everything that happened in Jammu during all these 40 years of protests would also come out of the shells to hail the appointment of Bloeria. And, such responses and lip services are part of the Jammu's post-1947 history.
A peep into the history of the past more than 63 years clearly suggests that whatever little the people of Jammu got during these years of the Kashmiri domination over Jammu province they got it not because of the sincere interventions of the Jammu politicians but because of their own struggles, coupled with supreme sacrifices. A peep into history would also make any investigator and objective commentator conclude at once that the only role of the Jammu leaders, barring a very, very few, till date has been to endorse what the Kashmiri leaders would do and say and do all that they could to defeat Jammu province. It is hardly necessary to catalogue here instances indicating the negative or anti-Jammu role played by the Jammu leadership itself for reasons not really difficult to fathom. Everyone in Jammu is fully aware of the damage the Jammu leadership has caused to Jammu province.
Anyway, the issue under scrutiny is the statement issued by the Congress office-bearers and the three-odd Congress MLCs, also JKPCC office-bearers. They should remember that the appointment of Bloeria as VC of CU has not addressed the real issue facing the people of Jammu province. The problem confronting them is political and it needs to be addressed politically if peace is to return to Jammu province on a permanent basis and if the people of Jammu province are to obtain what is their legitimate due. They knew it very well but they would not open their mouth as they are afraid of their high command, which, like the NC and the PDP, is out and out Kashmir-centric and essentially anti-Jammu.
That those who issued the statement hailing the Bloeria's appointment are aware of the nature of the Jammu problem could be seen from the 2008 the Congress' manifesto, titled "Manifesto of Peace, Dignity and Hope for Election to the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly 2008." They were very much present when the JKPCC chief Prof Saif-ud-Din Soz made the manifesto public in the presence of former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad and the then in-charge of JKPCC Prithavi Raj Chavan, presently Chief Minister of Maharashtra, at Press Club of Jammu with much fanfare.
What did the Congress election manifesto envisage? It, among other things, envisaged settlement of the Jammu's political problem on a permanent basis. Look at page 22 to see for yourself what the Congress solemnly pledged. The Congress pledged: "When elected power, party will restructure the Constitution of the State into a federal set-up by setting up separate regional councils for Jammu and Kashmir and further decentralization and devolution of powers to District and Block level councils to ensure effective participation of the people on the democratic system…(When elected to power, the party will) introduce a bill in the new Legislative Assembly seeking to constitute Delimitation Commission for delimiting the Legislative Assembly constituencies as required by law."
These worthies in the Congress, who suddenly resurfaced the other day after remaining in hibernation for days and months together, to hail Bloeria's appointment would do well to revisit their election manifesto, muster courage and force the high command to compel the NC-Congress coalition government in the state to amend the State Constitution so that the state polity is federalized and Jammu get a political instrument invested with adequate legislative, executive and financial powers - instrument that empowers the people of Jammu province to manage their own affairs themselves in a meaningful manner taking into consideration their special needs, requirements and compulsions. Appointment of this VC or that VC is not the solution to the Jammu problem. These are illusory and petty concessions. Will these worthies in the Congress muster courage to do the needful? Indeed, a very, very difficult question to answer. |
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