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| BJP, JKNPP fighting against each other in assembly | | Jammu VS Secularism | | NEHA
JAMMU, Mar 21: Minis-ters and legislators from Kashmir are one as far as their stand on India is concerned. They have been urging New Delhi to rollback all the central laws introduced in the state after August 1953. They hold these central laws responsible for the erosion of the state's special status as well as the identity of people of Kashmir and assert that their demands are rational, secular and democratic. This is not a new phenomenon. They have been fighting among themselves, but, at the same, putting forth these demands since decades. They have opened separate political shops but are selling the same product: autonomy/pre-1953 position/self-rule. There is no fundamental difference between their demands.
What about ministers and legislators belonging to Jammu province? Ministers and legislators belonging to the Congress party and the NC have no role to play in and outside the assembly. Either they remain silent or they speak what their masters in Srinagar and New Delhi speak. They are their master's voice. They do not hold any view. They are there in the assembly and the council to work for and promote the Kashmiri cause directly or indirectly. Jammu province has no place in their scheme of things. The story of Ladakh is different. Its representatives in the assembly and the council play the role they are required to. Their number is not even half a dozen, but they make their presence felt and force the government to relent. The people's representatives from Leh district doesn't care for the Congress high command. Their agenda is both nation-centric and Leh-centric and they do not flinch.
The problem is with the legislators belonging to the BJP and the JKNPP. They say they are Jammu-centric, but they also fight with each other on occasions, thus providing opportunity after opportunity to the Kashmiri leadership to play the games they want to. Instead of making common cause and fighting as one man in order to protect and advance further the general political and economic rights and interests of the people of Jammu province, they sometime indulge in activities to demonstrate that they are secular. It happened in the assembly Monday. The Panthers Party MLA and the BJP MLA created a scene to score points. It all started with one JKNPP MLA who sought to draw the attention of the assembly speaker to the unfortunate happenings in Rajouri even before he could start proceedings in the House. The speaker did the right thing by counseling the Panthers MLA not to rake up the issue. The speaker appealed to the Panthers MLA with "folded hands". Instead of appreciating the speaker's pious advice, the Panthers MLA roared saying "his party, unlike the BJP and the NC, was a secular outfit".
One doesn't know which constituency the said JKNPP MLA was addressing and what exactly was his motive behind raising the issue which the people of Rajouri amicably resolved three days ago. But what he said was enough to provoke the BJP MLAs with one of them taking on the Panthers MLA and asserting that their party was "not communal". He further said that the "single-point agenda of the Panthers Party is to play cheap politics to advance its political interests". "Pant-hers ka ek matar agenda siyasat hi hai. Idhar bhi Aag lagao aur udhar bhi aag lagao aur apni rotian seko," he said. What did the JKNPP and BJP MLAs achieve? They became laughing stock and harmed only their own constituency. It would be better if they focus more on the problems facing the people of Jammu. The fight between them over who is secular and who is communal would neither help them and their respective parties nor would benefit the people, they say, they represent. Debate on secularism has already caused enough of damage; it has created fear psychosis among certain sections and created schism in the society. To be more precise, the motivated debate on secularism has divided the society, instead of uniting it. They should remember that they are face to face with a situation which is quite dangerous and they can face it only if they, like legislators from Kashmir, fight unitedly against those seeking autonomy/pre-1953 position and enslavement of the people of Jammu province. |
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