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| Temporary Cong-BJP tie-up to scuttle clemency resolution | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Sep 30:Regional passion and interest seem to have been responsible for the
BJP and Congress, otherwise staunch and traditional political foes, to
join hands in ensuring scuttling of the clemency resolution that had
been moved in the Assembly on Wednesday.
It was as a result of temporary and tactical alliance between the BJP
and the Congress that created a situation in the Assembly forcing the
speaker Mohammad Akbar Lone, to adjourn the House for the day thereby
sealing all possibilities for Er Rashind to see his resolution,
seeking House support for clemency to Afzal Guru, who has been awarded
death sentence by the Supreme Court on charges of his involvement in
the attack on Parliament, come up for debate and vote.
About five days before the start of the Assembly session, in one of
our earlier stories, stated that the Congress members, especially
those belonging to the region of Jammu, were preparing for creating a
situation or a scene on the floor of the Assembly which could leave no
other alternative for the speaker but to adjourn the House so that the
clemency resolution did not come up for discussion and vote.
A senior Congress legislator had told the KIP that instead of facing
an embarrassment when the party MLAs from Kashmir were planning to
vote for the resolution and those from Jammu opposing it the party
leaders framed a strategy for creating pandemonium on the floor of the
House.
Since the Congress had no valid issue to stage demonstrations and kick
up unruly scenes it raked up an issue which was even sub judice to
disrupt the Assembly proceedings. Even after the speaker informed the
agitated Congress members that the expulsion issue of the BJP
legislators as sub judice the Congress legislators kept on clashing
with the BJP members on the issue.
The way the NC members watched the scene like passive spectators
indicates that Rahul Gandhi, during his recent meeting with Omar
Abdullah in Srinagar, may have set the stage for "no debate no vote"
on the clemency resolution. Even the PDP made no attempt at defusing
the trouble.
It is something different if the NC and the PDP leaders have been seen
getting vocal on the clemency resolution only after the House
adjournment. This is being done to keep their vote bank in the Kashmir
valley intact.
This way four principal political parties, the NC, the PDP, the
Congress and the BJP, played supplementary and complimentary role for
one another simply to escape any unsavoury situation.
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