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| Bhim forgets Agenda 2011, PP back to square one | | Dogras' Empowerment | | Neha
JAMMU, Sept 11: It was in January this year that the Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party (PP) of Bhim Singh adopted with much fanfare Agenda 2011. It was adopted after due deliberations and it was indeed a very comprehensive Agenda.
"No truck with Kashmir and Kashmiri leadership. Enough is enough. Kashmiri leadership has converted Jammu into a colony. Kashmiri leadership has destroyed Jammu socially, culturally, politically and economically and the Jammu leadership has always sided with the Kashmiri leadership to jeopardize the Jammu's general political and economic rights. The Jammu leadership has played foul with Jammu to promote its self-interests. New Delhi has abandoned Jammu and threw its lot with the Kashmiri leadership. We will not accept the position of servitude and subordination any longer. We will accept no teacher in the art of self-government except self-government itself. We will not accept anything short of a separate assembly, as such a political instrument alone can end the 63-year-old Valley domination over Jammu and empower its people to shape and control fully their political and economic future within India. Regional council or regional development board is no solution to the Jammu problem. We should imitate the Ladakhi leadership, which fought together and single-minded devotion and obtained an autonomous hill development council. No national party would ever work for the political empowerment of Jammu province because it is interested only in Kashmir and vote-bank politics. We need a regional party to defend and promote the Jammu cause and achieve political redemption. If we remain dormant and devoid of political activity any longer, we will be completely submerge under the rising tide of the Kashmiris' exclusive and intolerant nationalism. Time is running out and to mark time would to enable the Kashmiri leadership to further strengthen its stranglehold over Jammu province." This was the consensus among those who took part in day-long deliberations. There was no ambiguity. Everyone sung the same song: Sever ties with Kashmir and Kashmir leadership.
What has been referred to above as consensus reached on January 8, 2011 during what could be described as a unique interaction among prominent persons from different walks of life at Hotel Ashoka, Jammu. The interaction was unique in the sense that the theme under discussion was very sensitive and purely political and that everyone spoke the same language, with radicals among them not only endorsing the Agenda 2011 but also going beyond it. Normally debates on political topics generate heat and end without reaching a consensus.
The interaction was also unique because the deeply concerned persons enthusiastically ventured out of their houses to participate in it, notwithstanding the intense cold wave that had engulfed the whole of the province. It is important to note that the people in the Jammu province had been shivering since December 31. They had not seen the Sun for days. The interaction was all the more unique because some very senior and respectable citizens of Jammu province, including two former Major Generals, braved the vagaries of the nature and made it to the venue of interaction to put out their views, particularly on the plight of Jammu and its political future. Indeed, it was a wonderful scene.
Nearly eight months have passed since the adoption of the Agenda 2011 but there appears nothing on the ground which could even remotely suggest that the PP leadership has done anything worthwhile to implement the Agenda which, among other things, promised separate chief minister and separate assembly for the neglected and discriminated against Dogras. It appears the PP leadership has completely forgotten its solemn commitment that it would see to that the "year 2011 brings joy and happiness to the Dogras" and that "it would see to it that they become masters of their own destiny in their own house". It's indeed a square one-like situation as far as the PP is concerned. It's no wonder then that the Dogras have started accusing the PP leadership of indulging in "rabble-rousing" and "conducting in a fashion that only helps the Kashmiri leadership to further consolidate its hold over the Dogras and Duggar Pradesh".
The PP is an essentially Jammu-based regional outfit and it has been in the state's political arena since almost thirty years. That it has not been able to expand its support-base beyond three-four assembly segments is an indication that it has not come up to the expectations of the Dogras and that it doesn't do what it promises. The PP leadership would do well to appreciate the sentiments of the Dogras and do what it promised to do. Any failure on its part to adhere to the Agenda 2011 would establish once and for all that the leadership of the PP, like the Congress and the BJP leadership, is just not trustworthy |
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