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| Jitendra's attack on out-of-power Congress not convincing | | BJP and Dogra Certificate | |
Early Times Report
jammu, Sept 7: MoS in the PMO Jitendra Singh attacked the out-of-power Congress for two days. He attacked it at Hiranagar (Kathua) on Saturday while addressing a meeting of border people and he attacked it at Jammu Press Club on Sunday during the Meet the Press event. The issue which he took while attacking the Congress was the decision of the NC-Congress coalition government in the state and the Congress-led UPA Government at the Centre to not issue Dogra certificates to the Dogra youth desirous of seeking employment in Central Paramilitary Forces. The then Revenue Minister Raman Bhalla, who had declared that Dogra certificates will be issued to the Dogra youth by the competent authorities come what may, got isolated after the separatists of all hues joined hands against the demand in Jammu region for the issuance of Dogra certificates. They had described the decion as a conspiracy against Kashmiri Muslims, as also an attempt to weaken the separatist movement in the Valley.
The nature of the impact of the separatists' opposition to the demand in Jammu could be seen from the fact that Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and his henchmen in the Council of Ministers, besides all the Congress Ministers, worked in unison to appease the anti-Dogra forces in the Valley. The Omar Government even roped in the Central Government with the then Union Home Minister P Chidambaram embarrassing Raman Bhalla and toying the Kashmiri line. The fact of the matter is that the "secular" NC, the "secular" Congress and the "secular" Governments in the State and at the Centre joined hands against the Dogra youth to befriend the fanatics and anti-Jammu forces in the Valley.
Jitendra Singh didn't commit a mistake by attacking the Congress and batting for Dogra certificate. Indeed, the role of the Congress was dubious and patently anti-Jammu and it, like the NC, paid the price of unpopularity in the region by suffering a massive defeat both in the Lok Sabha and Assembly elections last year. The people of Jammu region decimated both these parties for the sins they had committed.
However, the suggestion of Jitendra Singh that the Congress should come forward for the restoration of diluted 'Dogra Certificate' in the interest of the youth was as unwarranted as it was a canny attempt to mislead and hoodwink the people of Jammu region, especially the Dogra youth, who had already been chaffing and seething with anger and condemning the BJP as the representative of Kashmir and an anti-Jammu outfit. His suggestion was laughable for the simple reason that the Congress was not in power.
How could the out-of-power Congress help restore the system under which the Dogra youth used to get Dogra certificates? It cannot. He should have asked the BJP, which is part of the ruling coalition in the state, to use its position and authority to undo the wrong the Congress and the NC committed to harm the Jammu's Dogra youth. He could have also approached the Union Home Minister, Rajnath Singh, for the purpose. After all, it was only after the Union Home Ministry intervened that the decision of Raman Bhalla to issue Dogra certificates to the Dogra youth was scuttled. He cannot take the line he took in his desperate bid to identify himself with the Dogra youth. They know who did what and they also know what the BJP Government at the Centre and the BJP Ministers in the State had done to the people of Jammu region during all these months.
The fact of the matter is that Jitendra Singh only became a laughing stock in Jammu region by putting all the blames on the Congress and soliciting its support for the Dogra cause and by not asking his own party to come forward to do the needful, which it can. But, remember, the BJP is not going to side with the Dogras. |
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