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| Party MP demands IIT, IIM for Valley | | Now, PDP plays to the gallery | | Early Times Report
Jammu, May 24: The BJP-PDP coalition government has been hit, yet again, by another controversy. In a politics of competitive regionalism, the PDP has now demanded setting up of an Indian Institute of Technology and Indian Institute of Management in Kashmir Valley.
PDP's MP, Traiq Hamid Karra, has said that while Jammu region is in its right to ask for another AIIMS for the region, the people of Kashmir have also a right to press for setting up of institutions like IIT, IIM and IIMC which have been exclusively established in Jammu.
Karra made this statement after another call of Jammu bandh has been given on the issue of setting up of AIIMS in the Jammu region.
The PDP MP has though relied on rhetoric than the susbstance in this statement. The announcement for the IITs and IIMs in Jammu was made in the 2013-14 union budget and not in current budget presented by the Finance Minister Arun Jaitely. Jaitely has though in his budget spoken about setting up AIIMS at J&K and not at Jammu, which had though been claimed by the MoS Jitendra Singh and had now snowballed into a major embarrassment for the BJP. And, a day later, when the 'Agenda of Alliance' was released, it was clearly mentioned that it will be set up in the Valley.
The Kashmir region has thus been given a major health project by the BJP, a party which in the past, when it was in the Centre, had been more accommodating to the aspirations of Kashmir than Jammu, though the latter has been it political mainstay.
The PDP has been trying to downplay the demand of the AIIMS at Jammu by saying that IIT here will be beneficial to the students of the state, especially of this region, though the admission to it is based on all India test, where very few from the state qualify.
The AIIMS, though a central institute, will provide top class medical facilities to the people of this region, who otherwise have to go to other states, even if the students of the state don't qualify for this institute.
"The PDP MP, it appears, is taking contradictory stand to the party. It is an attempt to vitiate the already troubled situation and comes at a time when some vested interests are hell bent on disturbing the coming Amarnath Yatra, and such statements will only add to the fire," said a senior BJP leader, wishing not to be named. |
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