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| Difficult time for Congress, coalition in crisis | | Resolution on Guru | | Rustam
JAMMU, Sept 20: The manner in which the ruling party/ruling coalition rejected the private member's bill seeking endorsement of the February 1994 unanimous parliamentary resolution has created serious misgivings in the minds of the people about the real intentions of the present dispensation. It has, undoubtedly, given the people of the state in general and Jammu in particular to understand that the present dispensation doesn't consider the so-called Azad Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan an integral part of Jammu and Kashmir. In fact, the rejection of the bill on the parliamentary resolution has vindicated those who have all through accused Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Sheikh Abdullah of the NC of hatching a conspiracy against the state to enable the Sheikh to rule the state with the help of the ethnically Kashmiri Sunnis.
Remember, the Sheikh had no love lost for the Muslims of Jammu province and Muslims of the areas, which have been under the illegal occupation of Pakistan since 1947-1948, because they were not non-Kashmiri and ethnically and culturally different, as also because they were opposed to the NC. Had Nehru not made common cause with the Sheikh, the Sheikh family would not have been in a position to rule the state and it would have been the people of Jammu province and Muzzaffarabad district of Kashmir province, all non-Kashmiris, who would have been ruling the state.
While the rejection of the private member's bill on the parliamentary resolution has exposed the ruling party/ruling coalition and has shocked the people, the acceptance of the private member's bill seeking mercy for Afzal Guru has strengthened the belief of the people that the attitude of the NC/ruling coalition towards the sinner is no different from that of Syed Ali Shah Geelani's and others of his ilk. And, it is this hostile attitude of the people that has created a very difficult situation for the Congress party not only in the state but across the nation: The Congress has already lost its face with the people demanding its political demise saying that it is just incompetent to rule and that it is controlled by those who are arrogant and who have lost public trust. There is general consensus that "they are imprisoned in their self-made cocoons and are fed information by bureaucrats who are even more distanced from the grim reality as it exists across the country at this point in time".
The acceptance of the bill on Guru doesn't adversely impact the NC in the Kashmir Valley. The reasons are obvious and one of the reasons is that the NC is the replica of the pre-1947 Muslim League that fought for and got Muslim Pakistan with the canny but frustrated Britons and power-hungry Congress leadership of the time helping the Leaguers to accomplish their most cherished goal. Besides, its constituency is communal. It has to compete with others in Kashmir who also have their eyes on the same constituency. The fact of the matter is that it is the politics of competitive communalism and secessionism that has been dominating the Kashmir's socio-religious and political scene since more than two decades with the NC struggling to hold its own against heavy odds created by its rivals in Kashmir, including the PDP. The NC could lose power if it votes for the controversial bill but its leadership perhaps believes that the loss of power at this point in time may turn out to be a blessing in disguise. It perhaps believes that the collapse of the government owing to its support to the controversial bill might help the NC as a party consolidate its hold over and expand its communal constituency in the Valley. The NC has little or no stakes in Jammu province and Ladakh region because an overwhelming majority of the people in these pro-India provinces hates and abhors what the NC stands for or what it has been seeking to achieve since decades - semi-independence. The NC could take a calculated risk because it, like the Congress party at the national level, has lost public trust. (To be continued) |
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