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| In separation from Kashmir lies Jammu's salvation | | Emotive Issues & Empowerment | | Rustam
Jammu, Oct 5: The 9-day session of the state legislature is over and nothing was done during all these nine days to discuss the issues facing the people of Jammu and Ladakh. The presiding officers have adjourned the legislative assembly and the legislative council sine die. All these 9 days witnessed a high drama, chaos and anarchy and the ruling party and the main opposition crossing all the lines, thus shaming themselves and the constituencies they represent and bringing bad name to the state. It was a free-for-all situation.
It was not the ruling party and the main opposition party which indulged in activities the state legislature had never witnessed before. The coalition partner, which calls it the J&K chapter of a national party, did the same. On September 28 and 29, this party (Congress), in collaboration with its senior coalition partner (NC), disrupted the functioning of the assembly, with the assembly speaker finding an excuse to adjourn the House and saving the situation for the cornered and irresponsible ruling coalition. It disrupted the proceedings without any cause. It raked up the issue the assembly speaker couldn't consider because the matter was, and is still, pending with the state high court (cross-voting by BJP on April 13 this year). And, it raked up the non-issue on the day the private member's bill seeking mercy for the parliament attack convict Afzal Guru was listed for discussion. It did the same the following day to create an environment which would not enable the main opposition to take on and corner the ruling coalition, especially the NC, on the ground that it had conspired in order to kill the private member's bill even before a discussion on it on the floor of the assembly could take place. The issue had nothing to do with Jammu and Ladakh.
On October 3 and 4, the main opposition (PDP) didn't allow the House to function. It insisted on a discussion on the circumstances leading to the death of a prominent NC activist - Haji Syed Mohammad Yousuf -- on September 30. The ruling coalition and the presiding officer refused to concede the demand, thus creating a situation that made the House dysfunctional. The issue had nothing to do with Jammu and Ladakh.
The role the ruling coalition and the main opposition played in the assembly was disgusting and shocking by any yardstick. Even more shocking and disgusting was the manner in which the presiding officer handled the situation. Instead of advising the ruling coalition and the main opposition to maintain calm so that House could transact business, he himself took the plunge. In fact, he went so abusive that a senior opposition MLA and former minister lost his cool. He hurled a fan at the presiding officer. It turned out to be a fight between Sunni Muslims and Shiite Muslims.
The fact of the matter is that everyone exposed himself and established that they had nothing to do with the people and the problems they had been facing. It was just a game of one-upmanship and the objective was to let down each other, score points and pander to communal and separatist forces in Kashmir. In other words, the ruling coalition and the main opposition wasted all the nine days fighting over emotive and divisive issues and once again establishing that they would continue to take recourse to rabble-rousing or continue to arouse popular and communal passions in Kashmir by taking recourse to soft secessionism in order to retain control over and expand their respective communal constituencies in the Valley. They left none any doubt whatever.
What happened in the assembly or what the nation and helpless Jammu and Ladakh witnessed during all these nine days was not altogether unexpected. In fact, it was expected that the ruling NC, in collaboration with its coalition partner Congress, which has thrown in its lot with the NC for all practical purposes, and the PDP would rake up emotive and divisive issues in the assembly to promote their respective agendas and appease their respective communal constituencies and it really happened. And, the same will happen when in the budget session. They would again rake up and discuss emotive and divisive issues and the result would be that Jammu and Ladakh would again meet the same fate.
The moral of the story is that the Kashmiri politics is based on emotive and divisive issues and the Jammu politics on democratic, economic and developmental issues. In other words, Kashmiri leadership stands for emotive issues and the people of Jammu for empowerment, as opposed to politics based on emotive and divisive issues. This is a glaring contradiction and it cannot be reconciled. Hence, the best thing to do is to separate Jammu from Kashmir so that the people of Jammu province are able to shape and mould their socio-political and economic future themselves in a meaning manner and the Kashmiri leaders able to do whatever they want to do. There is no doubt whatever that in separation from Kashmir lies the Jammu's salvation. |
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