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| Debate on Article 370: Cong, PDP, BJP, NC gang up against Kher | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 28: Bollywood actor Anupem Kher's very reasonable and democratic demand seeking abrogation of divisive, anti-people, anti-democratic, pro-separatist and pro-Kashmir Article 370 has been widely appreciated in the nationalist camps across the nation. His statement on this pernicious Article has also triggered a very interesting debate, with news channels like ZeeTV holding live discussions on this Article and supporting Kher, saying "the time has come to scrap this Article, as it has not done any good to the people of J&K". The people of J&K, especially the people of Jammu and Ladakh and refugees from West Pakistan and daughters of the state have been suffering since 1949 because of this Article, which is dismissed with contempt by the nationalists as "mother of all ills" and "deadly poison".
On Saturday, Kher addressed a press conference in Jammu in which he demanded abrogation of Article 370 and creation of separate homeland for the internally-displaced Kashmiri Hindus. "Once Article 370 is abrogated and people from West Bengal, Gujarat and other places settle in Kashmir, the issue will be solved forever," he said. As for the solution to the problem being faced by the internally-displaced Kashmiri Hindus, he said: "It was not possible for Pandits to return to their ancestral homes because of fear psychosis and the restless youth born after exile who did not have any feeling towards their homes except parents' emotions. For them, a separate homeland should be created within the Valley".
However, the solution put forth by Kher didn't go well with the ruling PDP and BJP, the main opposition of NC and the fake secular Congress party. Both the PDP and the NC condemned Anupem Kher and declared that no power on earth could abrogate Article 370. The PDP even demanded "more powers".
The PDP general secretary, Rafi Mir defended Article 370 in the presence of BJP national spokesperson Sambit Patra, who only made a fool of himself by beating about the bush. The ill-informed and half-baked BJP spokesperson was neither here nor there. He opposed and supported Article 370 at the same time. He didn't know what he said. In fact, he cut a very sorry figure by adopting a vague stand on the issue.
In Jammu, MoS in the PMO, who represents Kathua-Udhampur-Doda Lok Sabha constituency, left Article 370 to the care of the PDP. The BJP had left it to the J&K Government to decide whether Article 370 that gives special status to the State should stay or go, he said on Sunday. "We (BJP) are running a coalition government with Peoples Democratic Party which is based on the Agenda of Alliance. So we decided to leave the decision (of abrogation of Article 370) to them (PDP)," he said. "I have no personal say on this issue (Article 370). There is a coalition government in place and we are very sensitively working on the matter, and they have to take a call on its abrogation," he said. Interestingly, a day after becoming minister, he had declared in New Delhi that the Government of India had set-in-motion the process to abrogate Article 370 and he was snubbed by the party for his statement on Article 370.
The Congress also did not lag behind. Not one but three senior Congress leaders Mani Shankar Aiyer and Satyavrat Chaturvedi (both Rajya Sabha MPs) and Meem Afzal, Congress national spokesperson and former Rajya Sabha member, attacked Kher and rejected out-of-hand his demand. They said Article 370 must be retained. They even went to the extent of saying that it was for Kashmiri people (in this case Muslims) to take a final decision on Article 370. In other words, they said that the Kashmiri Muslims were the chief determinants and others in the state had no say.
Notwithstanding the hostile attitude of the Congress, the PDP, the BJP and the NC, which are chips of the same block and which follow the same Kashmir-centric ideology and believe in the policy of appeasement, Kher's statement on Article 370 and the debate it triggered have again brought the issue to the fore. And it is the BJP that has become a laughing stock and an object of contempt and ridicule by siding with the PDP, the Congress and the NC. |
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