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| 100 days rule that didn't inspire people, opposition | | BJP, also and first | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, June 9: The PDP-BJP coalition formed government 100 days ago with a much fanfare in the presence of a host of top BJP leaders, including the Prime Minister. The coalition had then held out numerous promises. It will wipe out corruption, it said. It will hand down a government that "delivers" and that "mitigate" the hardships of the people inhabiting different regions, it said. It will give employment to educated and uneducated youth, it said. It will restore peace in the state and create an environment that would make the people of the militant-infested state feel that the state entered a new phase in its history, it said. There would be no bitterness between the regions, it said, and added that it would rectify the past mistakes committed by the NC-Congress coalition government. It will unleash developmental activities on an unprecedented scale, it said, and added that the previous dispensation squandered all the opportunities it got to ameliorate the lot of the people and give a fillip to developmental activities. The state under the NC-Congress "misrule" suffered all round degeneration and the new government would do all it could convert the state into a model state. The coalition, in fact, made many other promises and those at the helm at the centre umpteen times described the coalition "historic" and formation of government by it a landmark development in the state.
The coalition completed 100 days in office on Monday. Interestingly, the PDP didn't make any statement on the performance of the coalition government. It was the BJP, its junior partner, which took upon itself the responsibility of highlighting the achievements of the coalition government. Not one but two ministers came forward to pat themselves and the government they are part of. Instead of impressing the people, they themselves became a laughing stock as they had nothing whatever to boast of. One of the ministers, who wants this government to complete a full term of six years, made a fool of himself as failed to make even a single point. He held a press conference but he was neither here nor there and whatever he said for the sake of it only created an awkward position for his own party, the coalition government and the central government. He became an object of contempt and ridicule when he, like the MoS in the PMO from Jammu, went beyond his mandate and made two foolish statements hoping he would be able to mislead the agitating people of Jammu province. He said Jammu will also get an AIIMS and it will be first established in Jammu. He amused everyone by making this laughable statement. How could he talk about "also" and "first" at the same time? Also meant that the AIIMS had already been given to Kashmir and "first" meant just confusion or an attempt to hoodwink the people of Jammu province. The said minister, who is called number two in the coalition government, also exposed himself, his party, the party high command and the Modi government by shamelessly asserting that hoisting of flags and anti-India rallies in Kashmir was not something new. He didn't say that he and his party held innumerable protest demonstrations at Kachi Chawni, Jammu, before becoming part of the power structure to protest against the anti-national activities in Kashmir. Significantly, not a single BJP leader during the past 100 days uttered a word against such abominable and condemnable anti-national activities in the Valley, which increased manifold. The fact of the matter is that the BJP ministers only cut a sorry figure the day the coalition completed 100 days in office. They not only further disappointed people of Jammu province but also provoked protests in Kashmir with one PDP minister denouncing the BJP minister for his statement on the money needed for relief and rehabilitation and Kashmiri traders demanding his resignation saying he had lost moral and political right to remain in the government by adopting anti-Kashmiri line. What a paradox! The BJP minister and the BJP as a party have sacrificed Jammu and its people to pamper Kashmir and yet the demand in the Valley for his resignation and snub from the PDP. The BJP failed Jammu on each and every front but failed to create a constituency for itself in the Valley where all are working in unison to advance the interests of the Valley at the cost of Jammu and the country as a whole.
Interesting, all the non-coalition parties, including the NC, the Congress and the Panthers Party, on Monday attacked the ruling coalition from right and left. The NC, which suffered a massive defeat in the assembly elections, described the coalition government as government of "u-turns" and the man who launched a blistering attack on the coalition was former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah. To make his point, he cited not one but many instances of "U-turns" the coalition did during the past 100 days. The Congress, which also suffered defeat in the assembly elections, also launched a scathing attack on the coalition government and termed it as incompetent. In Kashmir, the Congress launched attack on the PDP and the Congress lambasted the BJP in Jammu and termed it anti-Jammu. The Panthers Party, which like the NC and the Congress, also suffered a humiliating defeat in the assembly elections, too, attacked the coalition from right and left. Its target in particular was the BJP.
The truth is that none, barring the BJP, came in defence of the ruling coalition. It's time for the top leadership of the ruling coalition to sit up and retrospect to find where did it go wrong. It is a must because the opposition and the general population have not appreciated its performance. The perception matters and the perception is that the coalition has failed on all fronts and that it, like the previous NC-led coalition government, had focused only on sensitive political issues and ignored the people-related issues. |
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