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| Now, 'separatist' MLA calls for campaign to bring IIM, IIT to Kashmir | | Run with the hare and hunt with the hounds! | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, June 19: After ruling PDP's MP Tariq Hamid Karra, another lawmaker, who is a self-avowed supporter of Kashmiri separatist struggle, has appealed Valley's political and civil society bodies to launch a joint campaign to press for the demand of IIM, IIT and IIMC for Kashmir.
MLA Langate and president Awami Itihaad Party (AIP) Abdul Rashid Sheikh, alias Engineer Rashid, while reacting to the assurance given by Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh that AIIMS would be established in Jammu before July 20, said, "This all seems to be a well drafted game plan to justify AIIMS for Jammu, besides providing them IIT and IIM which stand already sanctioned."
Rashid asked how was it possible that government of India would have after few bandhs and hartals in Jammu so easily succumbed and a minister not less than the rank of Deputy Chief Minister had to give an assurance and that too in writing about establishing AIIMS in Jammu.
"May government clarify that if sanctioning AIIMS or any such institute of national standard is not within competence of state government, how could Nirmal Singh give an assurance, unless he doesn't have understanding with the Centre? The whole game seems to be a sort of match fixing only to side line Kashmiris and create logic for giving three prestigious institutions to Jammu," he said.
"However Kashmiris are matured enough to read the story down the lines and it is duty of political and social organisations to launch a mass public campaign to force union government to establish IIM, IIT and IIMC in Kashmir," the MLA Langate added.
He also urged all stakeholders who claim to be representing sentiments and aspirations of Kashmiris to unite and fight jointly for the "genuine cause before it is too late and things run out of their hands."
On Thursday, senior PDP leader and MP, Tariq Hamid Karra, said that it was disappointing that various sections of the society in Kashmir particularly separatists have been silent over the "discrimination."
"It is unfortunate that we in Kashmir are insensitive and don't come forward on such occasions," Karra said, asking the mainstream and separatist parties, trade bodies and civil society to unite and seek IIT and IIM for Kashmir.
"If Jammu deserves AIIMS, give them. But Kashmir also deserves IIM and IIT. Why deny Kashmir its rights? Why discrimination and injustice with Kashmir?" he asked. |
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