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| Power hungry BJP ministers put demand in back-burner | | Declaring Oct 26 as State holiday | | ET Report
JAMMU, Oct 10: Demand for declaring October 26 (Accession Day) as state holiday is gaining momentum with all nationalist forces have supported this demand but the power hungry BJP ministers in the coalition have maintained a criminal silence on this demand.
People of Jammu and Ladakh are anxiously looking towards BJP ministers in the coalition to take up this issue in the next Cabinet meeting so that this long pending demand should be fulfilled but chances of BJP ministers to take stand on this nationalist issue looks bleak because they don't have time to discuss such "irrelevant" issues. Instead of taking up stand on such nationalist issues BJP ministers are more concerned about preparing transfer lists with the approval of their touts and power agents who are openly auctioning transfers in the open market.
Union Minister in the Prime Minister's Office (PMO), Dr Jatindra Singh, who is Lok Sabha member from Udhampur-Doda Parliamentary Constituency, while addressing a function at Jammu University on Saturday, had appealed people of Jammu to celebrate Accession Day in a big way but his colleagues in J&K lack guts to take up stand on this issue with coalition partner PDP.
Not only Dr Jatindra Singh, every section of the society, in one voice, is demanding declaration of October 26 as state holiday but BJP ministers in J&K think that supporting this demand would annoy their coalition partner PDP so they are not touching this issue.
People are asking if July 13 is State holiday why government is not declaring October 26 as State holiday. Nationalist people and minorities of J&K observed July 13 as "Black Day"
On 26 October, 1947, the last Dogra ruler of J&K , Maharaja Hari Singh, had signed the Instrument of Accession to make Kashmir part of India. Before partition, Kashmir was an independent princely state. Soon after India's independence, it got plagued by invasions led by tribesmen, forcing its ruler to seek India's help.
The Maharaja signed the Instrument of Accession at Amar Palace in Jammu which the colonial India's last Governor-General, Lord Mountbatten, accepted on 27 October, 1947.
The proposal to declare 26 October as a gazetted holiday was made in the year 2015 by the BJP but later due pressure of power hungry ministers party leadership put this demand in back-burner.
Everyone wants to celebrate it as Accession Day every year. The day should be commemorated like other national holidays. The date bears great significance for all nationalist people. |
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