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| Bhim for governor's intervention in J&K | | Feuding Coalition Partners | | Rustam
JAMMU, Nov 6: Panthers Party supremo Bhim Singh has been for quite sometime now urging state governor Narinder Nath Vohra to invoke section 92 of the Jammu & Kashmir Constitution and bring the state administration under his direct control. Jammu & Kashmir is the solitary State in the country which has its own constitution. The state constitution empowers the state governor to intervene using its section 92 if he feels that the constitutional machinery in the state has broken down and the administrative set-up collapsed. He can keep the state under his direct rule for a maximum period of six months.
Bhim Singh is of the view that the constitutional machinery in the state has broken down, that the civil secretariat - the seat of power in the state - is in a state of paralysis or its has become totally dysfunctional, and that the coalition partners - NC and Congress - are fighting with each and washing dirty linen in public. He has also expressed the view that the NC leader and chief minister has been working in the state as an "agent of the Pakistani Inter-service Intelligence (ISI)" and that he has "become a threat to the national security".
Besides, Bhim Singh has been expressing the view that the chief minister and the party to which he belongs are going beyond what lays enshrined in section 3 of the state constitution and challenging the state's accession to India. Section 3 says Jammu & Kashmir is and shall be an integral part of India. He has several other complaints against the NC-Congress coalition government. For example, he has repeatedly expressed the view that the present dispensation is "corrupt to the core" and that the coalition partners are on a "looting spree". He is also interpreting the demand of the NC seeking withdrawal of the AFSPA and Army as an "act of sedition" and demanding criminal proceedings against the chief minister and others in the NC. Besides, he has been directly accusing the chief minister, his father and Minister of State (Home) of eliminating NC worker and loyalist of Abdullah family Haji Syed Mohammad Yousuf saying he was liquidated because it was through him that the NC president and others were indulging in "political corruption". So much so that he has knocked at the doors of the Supreme Court of India and urged it to order a CBI probe into the circumstances leading to the death of Yousuf. After hearing Bhim Singh for hours together, the apex court issued on Monday notice to the Omar Abdullah-led government and asked it why should not there be a probe by the CBI? The state government has been given two weeks' time for furnishing its reply.
These are some of the arguments which are being advanced by Bhim Singh while urging the state governor to intervene, dismiss the state government and take over the state administration so that it could redress the people's day-to-day problems. Significantly, the state unit of the BJP, which till the other day was opposed to the idea of the Omar Abdullah-led government being dismissed, has also upped the ante and demanded resignation of Omar Abdullah. It has advanced arguments identical to the ones advanced by Bhim Singh and other leaders of the Panthers Party. Even far more significant perhaps was the statement of JKPCC president Saif-ud-Din Soz on the chief minister and his style of functioning. Soz has, it may be recalled, accused Omar Abdullah of indulging in "sectarian politics" (indeed a very grave allegation) and criticized him saying he has failed to hand down to the people a responsive and good administration.
One cannot but agree with Bhim Singh, the BJP and others demanding the governor's intervention. The situation in the state has indeed deteriorated to a considerable extent. The people have come to believe that there exists no government worth its name in the state and that the conflict between the coalition partners has further added to their problems. Indeed, it is a fit case of the governor to intervene, tone up the administration and help people in getting their grievances redressed. |
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