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| Preparing ground for political extinction in Jammu | | State of Congress -- II | | Neha
JAMMU, Oct 12: The situation has climaxed to the point that certain Congress ministers, including Taj Mohi-ud-Din, are openly siding with the beleaguered Chief Minister and saying Omar Abdullah would lead the coalition government for a full term of six years. As for the Congress legislators, less said the better. They have forgotten their constituencies and thrown in their lot with this leader or that leader. They are behaving in a fashion that is only blackening their face beyond recognition. That they have virtually gone astray could be seen from their shameful conduct on the floor of the assembly on September 28 and 29.
What happened in the assembly on those two black days? The Congress MLAs, without any exception, made the assembly dysfunctional. They repeatedly entered the well, shouted slogans, used un-parliamentary language against the BJP MLAs, created ugly scenes and forced the Speaker to adjourn the House. They raked up an issue the Speaker couldn't do anything about that, as the issue they raked up was under the consideration of the State High Court. And, they indulged in hooliganism for two days only to help out the Omar Abdullah-led government which was finding itself into a deep trouble. The issue that had made things very difficult for the government was the acceptance by the Speaker of the private member's bill seeking mercy for Afzal Guru. Had the Congress MLAs remained calm and allowed the assembly to function, the Omar Abdullah government would have been in the dock. The behaviour of the Congress ministers was no different. They, it appears, masterminded what happened in the assembly and it is obvious that they did it to protect their own interests. In other words, the Congress ministers and the Congress MLAs established that they had nothing to do with the constituencies that they represented.
The most striking aspect of the whole situation was that the NC, which was facing the heat and trying its best to save its government, and the PDP, which had given the people to understand that it would take up the Afzal Guru issue in a big way, didn't do anything to restore order in the assembly. The NC and the PDP, which do not see eye to eye with each other and are ever ready to take on and expose each other, watched the ugly drama as mute spectators, thus ensuring the collapse of the private member's bill even before it could be moved for its consideration. In other words, the Kashmir-based parties made common cause with each other and exploited the Congress to the hilt. It was the Congress that drew flake.
The conduct of the Congress ministers and MLAs left none in any doubt that they are their in the government and the assembly to endorse and defend whatever the NC does and says. In other words, they have become indolent and intellectually sterile. Their only political duty is to endorse whatever NC says and does. By becoming uncritical supporters of the NC, they have lost their flexibility of maneuver and become irrelevant, particularly in Jammu province. To be more precise, the Congress leadership is systematically preparing the ground the extinction of the congress party in the state in general and Jammu province in particular.
The core constituency of the Congress is Jammu province. Everyone knows that the people of Jammu province are opposed to domination of Kashmiri leadership.
It is incumbent upon the Congress to meet it with equal argument, provide a platform for non-Kashmiri Muslim sub-nationalism politics, evolve a strategy that could compete with other ideas - autonomy, self-rule and so on - and offer an alternative to the politics of separatism and communalism or politics based on divisive and emotive issues. But the Congress, it appears, is not prepared to do the needful. Since, the Congress has no policy of its own and since it has thrown in its lot with the highly controversial Kashmiri leadership, it would surely pay the price of unpopularity. It would be no surprise if the Congress faces the worst kind of defeat in Jammu as and when elections are held in the state. (Concluded) |
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