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| Desperate NC seeks semi-azadi | | Needles of clock can't be turned back | | Early Times Report
jammu, Mar 16: National Conference president Farooq Abdullah is in his true colours. He wants to help out his defeated son Omar Abdullah at any cost and to achieve his sinister objective he has decided to cross all, the lines. How else would one interpret his demand seeking restoration of pre-1953 politico-constitutional position in Jammu and Kashmir?
"National Conference stands for restoration of autonomy, pre-1953 position, and safeguarding Article 370 in its original form," he on Tuesday said while addressing various deputations of party MLAs, MLCs and workers from different areas of Kashmir at party headquarters in Srinagar.
The desperate Farooq Abdullah, in fact, demanded re-establishment of a local oligarchy under which the ruling elite will exercise absolute legislative, executive and judicial powers and the people will have no say whatsoever in the governance of the State.
Under the dispensation that Farooq Abdullah sought for the State, New Delhi will have only limited jurisdiction over the State - limited only to matters relating to defence, foreign affairs and communication with the State exercising all other powers. In other words, the return to the pre-1953 position would mean withdrawal of all the Central laws and institutions like Comptroller and Auditor General, Election Commission and Supreme Court extended to the State after August 9, 1953, when Sheikh Abdullah was dethroned and arrested on the charge of sedition or for hatching a conspiracy with United States against India.
Besides, the acceptance of the demand for the restoration of pre-1953 position would mean substitution of the offices of the Governor and Chief Minister with those of Sadar-e-Riyasat and Wazir-e-Azam.
Not only this, it would also mean the revival of the archaic Jammu and Kashmir Constitutional Act of 1939 under which the State was governed till January 26, 1947 with some changes here and there, as also the revival of the draconian Press and Publication Act of 1932 under which the State Council of Ministers will have the power of seizing any press on the ground that it published a seditious article or article against the State.
These would be some of the implications if the pre-1953 position was restored in the State.
It is pertinent to mention here that the people of Jammu and Ladakh had consistently fought against the divisive policies of the NC and it was also under their pressure that New Delhi brought the State under the ambit of several Central laws and institutions to bring it at par with other States of the Union.
It's time for the people of the State to get united and fight against those who are asking New Delhi to turn the needles of the clock back in the State by more than 63 years. |
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