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| AIIMS CC meeting today to decide future course of action | | BJP delaying decision at its own peril | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, May 31: The aggrieved people of Jammu province on May 27 observed second massive bandh against the state BJP and the BJP-led NDA Government with a view to forcing them to establish the sanctioned AIIMS in Jammu. They organized first ever bandh against them on April 24, which was as massive and successful as the May 27 bandh was. They had hoped that May 24 bandh would move the Valley-centric BJP and it would reverse the decision to mollify Jammu, but it didn't happen. On the contrary, BJP leader and Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh, who is now contemptuously dismissed by one and all in Jammu as "Jaichand", made a provocative statement that no one could "snatch AIIMS from Kashmir" and "it will not be established in Jammu" and that the May 24 bandh was a flop show. Significantly, he made this statement on May 24 itself.
What led to the formation of the 80-odd member AIIMS Coordination Committee under the banner of Jammu & Kashmir High Court Bar Association (JKHCBA), Jammu, and second massive bandh in Jammu on May 27 is too well-known. Suffice to say that this bandh, like the earlier one, again failed to move the inflexible, arrogant and unreasonable BJP. Till date, the BJP has not yielded under pressure from Kashmir and the result is the scheduled Monday's meeting of the AIIMS Coordination Committee under the chairmanship of the Bar president Abhinav Sharma. One cannot say at this point in time as to what future course of action the CC would adopt to achieve its two specific demands -- establishment of AIIMS and an early completion of the Tawi artificial lake project - but one can surely predict that the decision that the CC would take in its Monday's meeting would be of somewhat extreme nature.
There is still time for the BJP to change its attitude towards Jammu, which gave it 25 MLAs and enabled it become part of the power structure in the state for the first time in 67 years. Jammu will get the AIIMS. There should be no doubt about it. The people of Jammu will also defeat those who say that artificial lake project over Tawi is technically and economically not feasible. There should also be no doubt about it. But the question is: Why the BJP is delaying decision?
The BJP has committed several blunders during the past three months and become unpopular and unpopular to the extent that aggrieved people of Jammu province and their well-wishers are openly advocating the need for adopting radical approach. It would not be out of place to quote verbatim what a well-wisher of Jammu province said the other day in this regard. He said: "Jammu should come up with all guns blazing this time because this passiveness has done a lot of damage to us. Now is the time to stand up and make it count. Now is the time to put down your roots and express our anguish with aggression but for our genuine rights. This is the time to stand up against the discrimination done to Jammu to appease Kashmir. We have to show the establishment that we cannot be bogged down by the black mailing of Kashmir & Kashmiris. We have to prove that our ultra-nationalism should not be taken as a weakness to explore alternatives which can work for the welfare of Jammu. We, Jammuites, are not fiefdom of any particular political outfit. Although we are still proud of the way we have voted but take this as a warning; do not prove our experiment wrong, we will not repeat it". |
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