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| Yet Another Walkout by BJP, JKNPP & JSM | | Neglect Of Jammu Lakes | | Neha
jammu, Mar 29: The BJP, the JKNPP and the JSM MLAs yesterday once again registered their protest against the NC-Congress coalition government and staged walkout. The issue was the willful neglect of Jammu lakes. It was the main opposition PDP which lambasted the government for its utter failure to spend the money earmarked for the development, preservation and beautification of Dal Lake. The PDP MLAs staged walkout after the Speaker, Mohd Akbar Lone, rejected their demand for constituting a House Committee to look into the issue of diversion of funds from Lakes and Waterways Development Authority (LAWDA) to other heads.
As the PDP MLAs were charging the government with diverting the funds meant for Dal Lake, the leader of the JKNPP legislature party, Harsh Dev Singh, intervened and said that the government should have kept the money keeping in view the capacity of the department to spend the same. "When you cannot spend the money then what is the fun of keeping provisions for the same", he asked and said that "such money could have been spent for other lakes like Surinsar, Mansar and Dalsar in Jammu region". Besides, he asked the government as to why it "has kept funds for the Dal Lake under four heads when the Housing and Urban Development Department has no capacity to spend the same fully even from one head".
As expected, BJP MLA from Nagrota, Jugal Kishore Sharma, joined hands with the JKNPP MLA and said that "unspent money should have been utilised for the Surinsar and Mansar lakes in Jammu, instead of diverting the same for other works". He accused the government of "neglecting the water bodies of Jammu". The JSM MLA Ashwini Sharma also did not lag behind. Accusing the state government of neglecting the Jammu lakes, he said that the "government should have brought Mansar and Surinsar lakes under the purview of LAWDA and added that "there is no justification behind keeping Dal Lake under LAWDA and other lakes under the Environment and Ecology Ministry".
As the Speaker didn't allow the concerned minister to give reply and, instead, asked him to furnish information in writing, all the JKNPP MLAs, BJP's Jugal Kishore Sharma and JSM's Ashwani Sharma staged walkout saying the government was neglecting the Jammu lakes.
The question to be asked is: Will such protests in the assembly and walkouts by the BJP, JKNPP and JSM MLAs move the NC-Congress coalition government? The answer is a big NO. These MLAS have in the past also staged walkout after walkout on the issue of discrimination with Jammu province, but without evoking any positive response. And, their protests and walkouts would fail to evoke any positive response in the future as well, as the NC and the Congress are all out to harm Jammu province and jeopardise its interests. There should be no doubt about it. It's true that the Congress MLAs from Jammu province the other day made common cause with the BJP, the JKNPP and the JSM MLAs on the issue of construction of roads under the Prime Minister Gramin Sadak Yojna (PMGSY) and selection of model villages and took on their own government, but it was an aberration. They just can't afford to annoy the party high command which is committed to pampering Kashmir.
Protests and walkouts are not a solution to the age-old Jammu problem. The solution to the problem lies in the power to legislate. In other words, if the BJP, the JKNPP and the JSM MLAs really wish to help the people of Jammu province become master in their own house, they have no other option but to unite and fight as one man for separate assembly and separate chief minister for Jammu province. The JKNPP, like the JSM, has on umpteen occasions vouched for a solution that reorganizes the state on regional basis. It is the BJP which has no definite Jammu-specific agenda. It should, like the JKNPP and the JSM, also take a clear-cut stand on Jammu. If the BJP could support the demand for separate Telangana State, why can't it demand reorganisation of Jammu and Kashmir State? Similarly, if the BJP can support the demand in Ladakh for Union Territory, why can't it fight for a definite political instrument for Jammu province? There is a contradiction in its approach towards Jammu and Ladakh and the contradictions needs to be reconciled. The sooner it does so the better. Reorganisation/trifurcation of the state is the only lasting solution and it is hoped that the BJP would rise to the occasion by making common cause with the JKNPP and the JSM. |
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