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| Congress needs to show sincerity to win Jammu | | Protest against BJP | |
Early Times Report
jammu, Oct 15: The Jammu-based Congress leadership has been holding protest demonstrations in Jammu against the BJP at regular intervals and charging the BJP with letting down and failing the people of the Jammu province by making common cause with the PDP and becoming a party to the anti-Jammu decisions being taken by the Jammu and Kashmir Government from time to time to further develop Kashmir and cater to the needs of the people of Kashmir. It has been, like the National Panthers Party, raising right issues and doing its best to expose the BJP's politics of bluff, duplicity and appeasement.
So much so, it has been trying to adopt the line the BJP adopted and practiced till February 2015 to garner votes in the region and come into power in the State. So much so, the Congress leadership from Jammu has been opposing imposition of 12.5 per cent jazya tax on Hindu religious shrines and demanding its roll back and also sharing the views of the people of Jammu province on killing of bovine animals and beef eating. The people of Jammu province had appreciated Congress national spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi when he termed the service-tax on chopper service to Mata Vaishno Devi as Jazya and when Congress national general secretary Digvijay Singh urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to enact a law banning cow killing across the nation.
There is no doubt that the humiliated, ignored and marginalized people of Jammu region appreciate the efforts of the Jammu-based Congress leaders, but they, at the same time, believe that the Congress cannot do anything substantive for them. Their argument is that they have no independent position and that they are controlled by the Kashmiri leadership that has been controlling the party since decades without a break. They say if the Jammu-based Congress leaders are to play an important role in Jammu province, win over the confidence of the estranged people of the region and contribute to their happiness and well-being, they have to ensure the elevation of someone from Jammu to the post of the JKPCC. "Unless and until the JKPCC is headed by someone from Jammu province, the Jammu-based Congress leaders cannot win over the trust of the people of Jammu province" is the general view.
The Jammu-based Congress leaders have not only to obtain the post of the JKPCC president for someone from the region, they have also to distance themselves from leaders like Saif-ud-Din Soz. There are many Sozs in Kashmir who vouch for greater autonomy, demand restoration of Article 370 to its original position, oppose those demanding repeal of Article 35-A of the Indian Constitution, question the very political status of J&K, suggest trilateral talks between India, Pakistan and Kashmiri separatists to settle the Kashmir issue and advocate policies which are fundamentally anti-Jammu, anti Ladakh and pro-Valley.
But more than that, the Jammu-based Congress leaders also have to come out with a solution that ends the alienation of Jammu province on a permanent basis and this is possible only if they hold out a solemn commitment that they shall work for the reorganization of the State on a regional basis and obtain for the people of Jammu province some definite political instrument that is invested with legislative, executive and financial powers. The problem of Jammu province, they should remember, is essentially political and it cannot be resolved within the existing Kashmiri-dominated unitary political, administrative, economic and constitutional structure. The people of Jammu province need a political instrument independent of Kashmir if they are to obtain what is their legitimate due in the State's polity and economy. If the Congress leadership from the region appreciates these realities and work accordingly, it would surely win over the people of Jammu province. But the question is: Will they muster courage and demand the post of JKPCC president for someone from Jammu and demand reorganization of the State? Yes, there are leaders like Sham Lal Sharma, who vouch for reorganization and a political instrument for Jammu, but the problem is that they do not persevere. |
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