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| State needs a Government that ensures its development | | Respecting people's mandate | |
Rustam
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Feb 17: The people of J&K came out in large numbers defying all odds, including threats to their life and limb, to express their faith in the country's democratic system in the just-held assembly elections. It is rightly said that the "alternatives in the absence of a government are not in consonance with an effective democracy". The budget deadline is approaching very fast, but the major parties in Jammu province and Kashmir Valley are still to iron out differences, thus leading to political instability in the sensitive border state with the bureaucracy playing all the shots. But more than that, the parties which were rejected by the people, are fishing in the troubled waters and doing all that they could to create political instability in the state by unleashing a negative campaign against the parties which won the maximum number of seats.
The people of the state have given a mandate which is divided equally between the two major regions -- Jammu province and Kashmir. It naturally means a coalition government that not only fulfills the socio-economic and developmental aspirations of the people of all the three regions, but also brings the state closer to New Delhi and ends bitterness between the regions. It also means that the parties which have majority in the different regions are the only obvious choice to form a government.
Indeed, it is time to deliver on the figures with socio-economic objectives in mind, rather than raking up issues which have the potential of further polarizing the society. There are many pressing needs of the people that can be catered only by handing down to the people a stable government - a government that focuses only on issues of governance and development. But more than that, the unemployment rate in the state, particularly in Jammu, is high. Besides, there are many grants from the Union Government which, according to reports, have not been utilized. For the equitable growth in Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh, there is the need to undertake definite measures calculated to undo the past wrongs and give a sense of belonging to the people of all the three regions of the state. Not only this, there are elements in the Valley who want a government that has no representation from Jammu - a move that could lead to the division of the state.
One can only hope and pray that a good sense would finally prevail and the major political forces would join hands to form the government and mitigate the hardships of the people. It would not be out of place to mention here that an overwhelming majority of population wants a good government that makes to distinction between the regions, between the communities and between the castes. They must rise to occasion considering the fact that the newspaper reports have only made the prevailing confusion worse confounded. |
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