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| Delimitation: NPP committing mistake by pinning faith in 'Kashmir-centric' BJP | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 8: The National Panthers Party (NPP) has been outing in all sincere efforts since March to expose the BJP and its misdeeds and its failure to protect the Jammu's genuine causes. It is difficult to give the number of protests and dharnas it held in Jammu and New Delhi's Jantar Mantar. For, it took to streets innumerable times during the past more than nine months.
There were occasions when the NPP activists and the BJP activists were face to face with each other and that too in front of the BJP headquarters in Jammu. The latest in the series was its protest at Jantar Mantar on Monday and the issue that it raised very forcefully and convincingly was the issue of Jammu's under-representation in the J&K Legislative Assembly.
The arguments the NPP activists advanced in support of the Jammu's age-old demand for adequate representation in the Assembly and the statistics it referred to make their point were well-founded, accurate and very convincing. For example, they said that Kashmir has 46 seats in the Assembly at the rate of per 346 sq kms and Jammu returns 37 members at the rate of one per 710 sq kms. They also referred to the voters' strength of Gurez Assembly constituency and the Gandhi Nagar and Jammu West constituencies. They were absolutely right when they lambasted the authorities and said that while the voters strength of Gurez Assembly constituency is just 18,000, the number of voters in the Gandhi Nagar and Jammu West constituencies is more than two lakh each. This is a fact.
However, the problem with the NPP leadership is that it is pinning faith in a wrong party, called the BJP. On Monday, it reminded the (mis)ruling BJP of its vision document, which was released during the 2014 Assembly elections, as also of the speeches the BJP leaders made on the need to set up delimitation commission in J&K to ensure proper representation of Jammu in the Assembly. It was no more than a futile exercise on the part of the NPP activists. For, the BJP doesn't stand for its own constituency in Jammu; it is a party for Kashmir and it is also a party that is worse than the Congress.
The NPP leadership needs to be reminded that the agenda of alliance that the BJP devised, approved and has been implementing ruthlessly since March says that a delimitation commission will be set up "as per law". The law says delimitation of the Assembly constituencies in the State could be possible only after 2034 provided the Government of the time would be wiling to amend the existing law.
The NPP leadership also needs to be reminded that all the BJP MLAs had in February 2002 joined hands with the National Conference and all other Kashmir-centric and Kashmir-based MLAs to adopt this anti-Jammu amendment in the Representation of People's Act. But more than that, the NPP leadership also needs to be reminded that the NPP MLAs were very much in the Assembly when the BJP hit the people of Jammu province below the belt and with one voice supported the NC-moved anti-Jammu amendment.
The NPP would do well to stop reminding the ungrateful BJP of the promises it made to get votes from Jammu. The BJP is not going to reform itself. It was pro-Kashmir in the past, it is pro-Kashmir at present and it will further barter the interests of the people of Jammu province, especially of the Hindus, in the future as well, as it has, it appears, decided to help Kashmiri leadership to enslave the people of this region. |
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