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| Anger against Centre can harm PDP-BJP coalition Govt | | | Has the special status, which Jammu
and Kashmir State enjoys under Ar-
ticle 370, witnessed some erosion? Those who ask this question do so on the basis of inordinate delay on the part of the successive Central Governments in releasing financial package for providing relief and compensation to those affected by natural calamities. Years ago whenever the State of Jammu and Kashmir experienced floods or drought it would receive financial assistance from the Centre on a priority basis even when other states had witnessed bigger floods and drought but those states were made to wait for Central financial aid. And the successive chief Ministers of Punjab, Haryana, UP, Madhya Pradesh and Bihar were used to the special treatment being meted out to Jammu and Kashmir by the successive Central Governments as far as sanctioning and releasing financial assistance for providing relief and compensation to those affected by floods and drought. These chief Ministers of other states had believed that since Jammu and Kashmir was the only State enjoying special status it deserved the right to secure financial assistance from the Central Government that too on a priority basis. It was because of this special treatment that orchardists, agriculturists and other sections of society received immediate financial assistance from the Centre notwithstanding the fact that proper utilization of funds earmarked for relief and compensation used to be missing.
However, during the last two to three years the state of Jammu and Kashmir no longer receives financial help from the Centre for providing relief and compensation to the flood affected people. The State was hit by major floods and landslides in September 2014.The previous state Government, headed by the National Conference, had submitted loss assessment report to the tune of Rs 44,000 crores to the Congress led UPA Government. Till the change of guard the UPA Government had not released even a penny for relief and compensation to flood hit people despite the fact that floods and landslides had damaged basic infrastructure in the private and public sector. The delay in providing relief and compensation to the flood affected people in Jammu and Kashmir is seen as one of the major factors for the drubbing the Congress and the National Conference received in the Lok Sabha and the Assembly elections. In the Lok Sabha election the BJP captured three Lok Sabha seats and the PDP won the remaining three seats in the Kashmir valley. In the Assembly elections the BJP won, for the first time,25 seats and the PDP 28 seats enabling the two to forge an alliance for forming a coalition Government in the State. And during the Lok Sabha and the Assembly poll campaign the BJP leaders, including Narendra Modi, had made repeated commitments on releasing financial package for providing relief and compensation to the flood hit people and for rebuilding the damaged infrastructure. The commitment has not been fulfilled till date.
Anger against the BJP led NDA Government is actually anger against the State unit of the BJP and the PDP. And if any political party that can be affected by peoples' anger it is the BJP and the PDP.
Pro-BJP wave that had hit the region of Jammu during the last Lok Sabha and the Assembly elections has started receding. The pro-PDP wave in the Kashmir valley is losing its verve. Apart from helping the flood hit people, the entire population in Jammu and Kashmir had expected major financial help from the Centre for improving power generation when during the last over eight months people in the state, especially in the Jammu region, have faced many ordeals because of prolonged power shedding. The State Government has not received any financial package for increasing job avenues. No special financial package for launching major development schemes. At one stage people were made to believe that during his Independence Day address to the nation from the ramparts of the Red Fort Prime Minister Narendra Modi would announce major special financial package which was to cover not only relief to flood hit people but also cover plan for increasing power generation by building a number of mini and major power projects and for increasing job opportunities. In the absence of any such announcement majority of people have lost faith in the BJP led NDA Government. |
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