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| Jammu's Message: Congress must assert in cabinet meetings | | Controversy | | Neha
JAMMU, Dec 26: The lawyers' strike stands suspended. They have resumed their work following the high court's very timely intervention and positive stand it took on the strike, which affected the working of the courts for nearly one month and brought the people of Jammu province under one banner provided by the Bar Association Jammu (BAJ). The government's decision to transfer powers of registration from courts to revenue officials had triggered the strike. It is hoped that the high court's intervention would lead to an amicable settlement between the government and the lawyers. Of course, it would largely depend upon what stand the government would take on December 28, when the PIL would come up for consideration by the special bench of the high court. One has to wait for a couple of days to know if the massive strike has had its impact on the government. But the political sagacity does warrant a positive response from the government considering the apprehensions of the people as a whole. In other words, one would want the state government to withdraw the controversial decision in the larger public interest.
However, there is a lesson for the Congress party to learn from what happened in Jammu province, particularly after December 19, a day before Jammu province observed a massive and peaceful bandh to register its emphatic opposition to the government decision. Before December 19, the striking lawyers and their ardent supporters across the Jammu province had focused their attack on Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and the National Conference. They did not really took on the Congress party or the Congress ministers. They attacked the Chief Minister and the National Conference saying they were ruling the state and they were responsible for the registration powers logjam. This methodology of the striking lawyers did not click. In fact, they were reportedly told by the Finance Minister and Political Advisor to the Chief Minister that the decision had been taken and there was no question of withdrawing it. Twice it happened in the presence of the Revenue Minister as well whose department was to exercise powers of registration.
It was the negative response from the National Conference leadership that forced the striking lawyers to revise their strategy and they did revise it. They ignored the Chief Minister, the Finance Minister and the National Conference saying they were not concerned with them because they did not represent Jammu province, as also because the people of Jammu province had not elected them and voted for the National Conference. Instead, they turned towards the Congress party in general and the Jammu-based Congress Cabinet Ministers in particular. They took on the Congress and the Congress Cabinet Ministers and launched a scathing attack on them saying they did not play their role in the cabinet meeting and that it was they who were more responsible for what the state government did to jeopardize freedom of judiciary. Their whole strategy was based on the premise that it was the Congress Cabinet Ministers who had violated the Jammu's mandate by endorsing the government's move designed to generate more revenue. What the lawyers and the general public did to the Congress ministers between December 19 and December 22 is history.
The moral of the story is that the Congress ministers just cannot allow the National Conference ministers to dictate terms. To be more precise, the Jammu's message is: The Congress ministers must assert in the cabinet meetings and refuse to the National Conference line. It is for them to learn lesson from the suspended strike or to pursue the old policy of endorsing the National Conference moves and decisions. To continue to pursue the old policy would be only to annoy further the people of Jammu province. There is no reason why should the Congress party and the Congress ministers do so and invite more wrath. |
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