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| What About Jammu? | | Congress leaders express solidarity with Peerzada | |
NEHA
JAMMU, Feb 12: The NC, which is systematically destroying the Congress party in Kashmir and Jammu and doing all that it wants to, has once against taken on the Congress and showed its leadership its place. It has snatched the education portfolio from Peerzada Mohammad Sayeed for his alleged involvement in an unholy episode or on the ground that he allegedly helped his foster son pass the matriculation examination in 2009. Peerzada sent his resignation letter to AICC president Sonia Gandhi who, as expected, refused to accept it or refused to send it to the Chief Minister for acceptance and asked him to remain part of the government, thus making a mockery of the whole system. Peerzada would not hold the education portfolio which would now be held by the Chief Minister; Peerzada would continue to hold the portfolio of Public Enterprise as before. It is nothing but a mockery of sorts. People are very intelligent; they know the exact meaning of what Sonia Gandhi has done in this case. Suffice it to say that such a ridiculous action has never been taken anywhere in the world.
Any way, this is not the issue. Corruption and political debauchery have become order of the day, with the Congress and the Congress-dominated UPA Government being dismissed by almost everyone as the "most corrupt, undesirable and dangerous". The issue is the attitude of the Jammu-based Congress leaders and Congress legislators towards their Kashmiri counterparts vis-à-vis the Jammu constituency with whose help they are surviving, thriving and sharing the loaves and fishes of office in the state. The Jammu-based Congress leaders, Congress ministers and Congress legislators hardly speak about Jammu; they hardly speak about the problems the people of Jammu province have been facing at the hands of the governments in the state and at the centre. Most of them do not even visit the party headquarters, not even on such occasions as Gandhi Jayanti. They live and function in isolation and watertight compartments looking after and furthering their own vested interests.
The general perception in Jammu province is that the Congress ministers, Congress legislators and Congress leaders and workers are a divided lot. There is also feeling in Jammu that the state Congress is vertically divided into several camps, that the followers of one particular Congress leader are the enemies of another particular leader and that all these factions are working overtime to let down each other and capture the Congress organization, whatever it is.
However, the developments as they unfolded yesterday in Jammu have proved these perceptions wrong and established that they are one as far as their support to their Kashmir-based colleague Peerzada is concerned. Yesterday, several Jammu-based Congress leaders and legislators, belonging to the two dominant Congress factions, sat with their counterparts in Kashmir and resolved to "strengthen the Congress in all three regions of the State" and decided to meet again shortly to "deliberate upon various other issues pertaining to the State and party". Actually, they and their Kashmiri counterparts met to express solidarity with Peerzada. Nothing wrong. This should have been the approach.
Leave aside what people would think about them and their support for a man who was shunted out of the ministry some six years ago by Ghulam Nabi Azad on the ground that the said man had allegedly forced an independent MLA to pay him "handsome bribe" for getting his sister's particular work done. Also leave aside what people think about Sonia Gandhi and Peerzada himself for the path they have treaded to ensure the latter's retention in the council of ministers. For them, the retention or dismissal of Peerzada and other Congress ministers accused of amassing wealth and raising properties worth crores of rupees doesn't matter. For, they know everything. For, they know what the Congress ministers or other ministers have been doing, what the Chief Minister has done to Peerzada and its implications and what Sonia Gandhi has done and its implications. They are watching with vigilance all that is being done by the ruling elite.
But one just cannot ignore the circumstances leading to the unity between the various factions in the Congress party. At least, the people of Jammu province cannot because this sudden unity between the factional leaders and their supporters in the government, legislature and party has not gone down well them. They have viewed this unity as an "attempt at defending" what they say "indefensible". It is their opinion and they have the right to hold any view. After all, they are the real stake-holders. What has angered them all the more against the Jammu-based Congress ministers, legislators and leaders is their indifferent attitude towards them and the problems they are facing, as also the common cause they made in no time with their Kashmir-based colleague. They say "they would have appreciated them had they also vociferously taken up the cause of the neglected Jammu province and the hapless people it houses".
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