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| Will Soz's intervention work? | | Lawyers' Strike | | Neha
jammu, Dec 16: JKPCC president Prof Saif-ud-Din Soz has done exceedingly well to take cognizance of the ongoing over two-week-long lawyers' strike in Jammu and ask Chief Minister Omar Abdullah to "reconsider transfer of registration of documents from judiciary to the revenue department". Prof Soz on Wednesday reportedly told the Chief Minister that "in his opinion" the transfer of registration powers to the revenue department would "create lot of confusion and pressure at lower level of revenue department" and that the "registration of documents should rest at various levels of judicial system". Besides, he has suggested that the "revenue minister should be consulted on the issue as this was not a mere financial matter".
Prof Soz's was a very timely intervention and one can only hope that the Chief Minister and the Finance Minister would see reason and withdraw the roundly condemned order that discontinued the decades old practice and has created furore across Jammu province, with the protesting lawyers and their supporters accusing the government of creating an environment that would further promote corruption and add to the woes of the people. There is no doubt whatever that the said order, if given an effect to, would hit the people hard and defeat the very objective that had made the authorities in the state in the 1913 to separate judiciary from executive and made the system cheap and speedy.
The Soz's intervention has once again established that the Chief Minister and his men are taking decisions unilaterally, thus showing disrespect to the Congress party. His statement leaves none in any doubt that the Chief Minister and the Finance Minister, who also happens to be one of the ideologues of the ruling National Conference, did not consult Prof Soz before taking the policy decision. Prof Soz is not just president of the state unit of the Congress party. Prof Soz is chairman of the National Conference Coordination Committee. He should have been taken into confidence. Prof Soz's statement also constitutes a very sad reflection on the Chief Minister's style of functioning in the sense that neither he nor the Finance Minister discussed the matter with the Revenue Minister before taking the controversial decision. It appears from Prof Soz's statement. Discussion with and the consent of the Revenue Minister was imperative because it was his department that was to discharge the proposed duties.
Anyway, now that the JKPCC chief has finally intervened, it is time for the National Conference think-tanks to refashion their attitude towards the Congress party with whose support Omar Abdullah is ruling the state. The best course would be to endorse the views of Prof Soz on the issue and break the deadlock between the lawyers and the state government. |
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