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| PDP & BJP to settle on CMP | | | If Ram Madhav general secretary of the BJP,is to be believed, the BJP-PDP coalition Government may be in shape in Jammu and Kahsmir within next eight to 10 days.In fact Ram Madhav is specific on the date of formation of the Government when he said it could be February 10.In the same breath he has admitted that talks between the two over the contentious issues continue meaning that these talks have not been completed.This also indicates that differences continue to delay the Government formation because the PDP and the BJP have inherent ideological differences which need a major compromise. Since the possibilities of a compromise are bleak the two sides plan to keep all the contentious issues under the carpet.Imagine the attitude of the PDP leadership as far as the issue of grant of citizenship rights to the West Pakistan refugees, settled in Jammu, areconcerned. Senior PDP leader, Muzaffar HussainBaig, had advocated that let the proposed coalition of PDP and the BJP adopt a middle path on the issue. This has not found favour among the top leaders of the PDP which is evident from the statement issued by the party chief spokesman, Naeem Akhtar. Akhtar has said that the PDP leadership has dissociated itself from Baig's stand on the issue and whatever he has stated was not in tune with the PDP's stand on the issue.
This denotes that the PDP is not prepared to support the BJP's plan on granting citizenship rights to the refugees from West Pakistan who are settled in Jammu for the last several years. Naeem is not wrong when he said that it is the state legislature and not the central Government that can grant citizenship rights to the non-state subjects. Under the 1927 State Subject law a non-state subject cannot be granted citizenship rights.And those who have not citizenship rights are not entiled to boy or own immovable property. Their children cannot get enrolled in the professional colleges in Jammu and Kashmir. These non-state subjects cannot get recruited in any state Government department and they simply can vote in the LokSabha election butare not eligible to vote in the Assembly elections. At the time of their migration from West Pakistan, these refugees were allotted some land and houses but they have not been entitled to have the proprietary rights of the houses and land.There are several other problems these west Pakistan refugees face. Some of them lament over their misfortune when several hundred refugees from West Pakistan had been fully settled and rehabilitated after they had shifted from Jammu to other states in the north.
Now that the Kahsmir centric mainstream parties,including the National Conference besides the separatists have started opposing any plan on grant of citizenship rights to the West Pakistan refugees, the PDP finds itself in a tight corner. Reports reveal that the PDP leadership is not prepared to make any compromise on the issue as that would hasten the process of erosion in the PDP's vote bank in the Kashmir valley.Both the NC and the separatists and those who oppose the plan of granting citizenship rights to the West Pakistan refugees argue that granting citizenship rights could alter the demographic character of Jammu and Kashmir.. It is a myth.
The contention is nothing but pure propaganda. How can 33,00 families of Hindus and Sikhs alter the demographic character of Jammu and Kashmir when in the valley Muslims constitute 97.16 per cent of the population. Themuslim population in Ladakh is 47.40 per cent and in the region of Jammu it is 30.69 per cent. Hence the question of changing the demographic character is baseless.Still the PDP leadership is not prepared to support the BJP on the issue.
Hence the two may keep all the contentious issues under the carpet and allow the BJP and the PDP deliver a clean Government which could mitigate the problems and sufferings of people in the state. |
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