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| Is Jammu Cong leadership with Jammu or with Kashmir | | Soz makes common cause with Mirwaiz, others | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, May 31: The Jammu-based Congress leaders, including former ministers, have been supporting the ongoing movement for the establishment of AIIMS in Jammu and also demanding the completion of the artificial lake project over Tawi. They supported both the bandhs and they also issued statements promising full and unqualified support to the AIIMS movement. The critics of the Congress leaders from Jammu may say that they are fishing in the troubled waters to their own disadvantage and to the disadvantage of the BJP, which has become unpopular and lost its face, but the fact that they have extended their unstinted support to the movement is a welcome step.
However, time has come for them to prove that they are with Jammu and not with those Congress leaders in Kashmir who have been speaking the separatists' language and demanding revocation of AFSPA at a time when Anantnag, Shopian, Pulwama and Kulgam areas in Kashmir are under the grip of Pakistan-sponsored separatists and many areas in other parts of Kashmir have been without any communication network. They have to tell the people of Jammu province that they are for the strengthening of the security grid and for giving a freehand to the Army so that the menace of terrorism and secessionism is defeated.
It has become absolutely necessary for the Congress leaders from Jammu in the wake of the statement of former JKPCC chief Saif-ud-Din Soz that AFSPA must be revoked forthwith. Soz on Friday said "Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) was not compatible with India's democratic set up and the act must go in phases", and added that "I have a feeling that this law is not compatible with India's democratic system. India has earned a big name for its democratic value-system which has kept India safe in many ways". "I feel Chidambaram was right when he had argued with the then Defense Minister AK Antony, that sooner this law goes better for India. Chadambaram was right when he called this law as "draconian. "He had always supported the idea of AFSPA revocation as it is a source of enormous irritation in Kashmir," he also said.
What Soz said was not different from what self-styled chairman of Hurriyat Conference Miraiz Umar Farooq said the same day. Not only Soz and Mirwaiz, a number of PDP leaders have also expressed similar views on AFSPA. The Congress leaders from Jammu know it well that the people of Jammu province, or for that matter all the nationalists people in the state, are for the continuation of AFSPA. If they really wish to connect themselves with the people of Jammu province, they should tell Soz and others in the Congress party in Kashmir that they reject their anti-national suggestion and that they are with the people of Jammu who want the army to have a final say in the matter concerning the territorial integrity of India and the security of the people of the state. |
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