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| Dy Chief Minister speaking the Kashmiri language | | India using our land, water: Nirmal | | ET Report
JAMMU, Apr 13: Kashmiri parties, separatist outfits and Kashmiri civil society groups have been asking the Government of India to handover the NHPC-installed and managed power projects in Jammu and Kashmir to the state government since decades. The attitude of the Congress has been no different. In fact, the Congress once termed the NHPC as East India Company and asked it to quit the state as if Jammu and Kashmir was a foreign country and the NHPC an aggressor and exploiter.
It may appear preposterous but it is a fact that the BJP leader and Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh also has been speaking the same language, as if he is their spokesperson. In fact, he has been more critical of the Government of India than any Kashmiri "mainstream" political party has been. He has been accusing the previous NC-Congress Government of miserably failing to bring back the power projects to the State though both parties were in power at Jammu and Kashmir and Centre. He has been advancing these arguments to silence the Kashmiri parties who charge the PDP-BJP coalition government with misleading the House through the Governor's Address that said that steps would be taken to make the Union Government transfer the Dulhasti and Uri Power projects from the NHPC to the state government. The non-PDP and the non-BJP parties are also attacking the coalition government saying the Union Power Minister has rejected the demand for the transfer of these power projects on legal and other grounds.
What has been the counter argument advanced by the Deputy Chief Minister? "The reply of the Union Minister is more than month back when the State Government had not been formed. You couldn't bring back the power projects in six years and you are asking us to bring them back within 15 days," he has been saying to counter the critics of the coalition government, and adding that the talks are on with the Centre and the opposition must keep patience.
But this is not all that he has been saying. He also has been accusing the previous NC and the Congress Government of giving away the power projects to the Centre. "The previous NC and Congress Government gave away the power projects to the centre. The PDP-BJP Government has taken up the issue with the Union Power Minister.
National Conference and Congress Government had given these projects long ago, since our Government came we have talked to the Central Government on the issue (transfer of power projects), it will happen only after discussions are held with all the stake holders," he has been saying.
Not just this, the Deputy Chief Minister, who has turned more loyal than the king, has been even going to the extent of criticizing the Government of India for what he calls misusing the state land and exploiting its natural sources. He, for example, on March told reporters that the state land and water belonged to us and virtually said that the Government of India had no right to use the state land and the state's natural resources. He said: "projects were not run by the Jammu and Kashmir Government. They (Government of India and its NHPC) use our water and our land, but NHPC made these projects run them".
Indeed, the Kashmiri separatists and the Kashmir-centric parties have found in the person of senior BJP leader and Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh a very effective spokesperson. There appears none in the BJP both in the state and 11 Ashoka Road who could rein in the supporters of Kashmiri parties and separatist outfits. |
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