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| Revisiting Agenda of Alliance to understand nature of conflict between BJP, PDP | | | Early Times Report
jammu, Mar 19: The Agenda of Alliance of the Peoples Democratic Party-Bharatiya Janata Party coalition in Jammu & Kashmir, that was made public on March 1, the day when the new State Government was formed, is now under scrutiny. On May 21, 2015 after the AIIMS Coordination Committee unleashed the movement for the establishment of an All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Jammu, the Agenda of Alliance gathered attention.
What brought the Agenda under sharp focus was the alleged shifting of the proposed AIIMS to the Kashmir valley. Union Minister for Finance Arun Jaitley, while presenting his second annual Budget, on February 28, had announced the setting up of an AIIMS in Jammu.
Some keen watchers of Jammu & Kashmir, who have read and re-read the Agenda of Alliance, have said that it is a "very dangerous document". Some have dismissed it as "an agenda of subversion". Few have termed it as "a new charter of bondage for Jammu and another rivet in the chain of Jammu slavery". Others have termed the Agenda of Alliance as "a document designed to break Jammu region into smithereens".
Do the critics have a valid point? Yes, they do. There is much in the Agenda which is undesirable. It helps Pakistan and the Hurriyat leaders to promote their secessionist and sectarian agenda. It also helps anti-Jammu forces in Kashmir consolidate their hegemony over Jammu, and destroy the region's unity and integrity by pitting followers of one religion against others. The Agenda also negates all that the nation did till February this year in Jammu & Kashmir to better integrate it into India.
For instance, the Agenda of Alliance not only maintains the existing political-constitutional status of Jammu & Kashmir, but also effectively says that the State is disputed territory and that its political future is yet to be decided. It recommends a process that seeks to involve Hurriyat leaders and also considers Pakistan as a stakeholder in Jammu & Kashmir.
"While recognising the different positions and appreciating the perception, the BJP and the PDP have on the constitutional status of Jammu & Kashmir, considering the political and legislative realities, the present position will be maintained on all the constitutional provisions pertaining to Jammu & Kashmir, including the special status in the Constitution", the Agenda of Alliance says.
It also says, "The earlier NDA Government led by Atal Bihari Vajpayee had initiated a dialogue process with all political groups, including the Hurriyat conference, in the spirit of insaaniyat, Kashmiriyat aur jamhooriyat. Following the same principles, the coalition Government will facilitate and help initiate a sustained and meaningful dialogue with all internal stakeholders, which will include all political groups irrespective of their ideological views and pre-dilections. This dialogue will seek to build a broad-based consensus on resolution of all outstanding issues of Jammu & Kashmir."
The Agenda of Alliance also talks about de-militarisation of the State and withdrawal of all special laws, including the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act. Additionally, it also says that "all lands, other than those given to the security forces on the basis of lease, licenses and acquisition under the provision of the land acquisition Act, shall be returned to the rightful legal owners".
The critics of the Agenda of Alliance also stand vindicated when they describe it as "a new charter of bondage for Jammu and another rivet in the chain of Jammu slavery". The reason is that there is absolutely nothing in the Agenda for the discriminated people of the Jammu region.
The Agenda talks of the establishment of a delimitation commission, but it says that it could happen only after the 2031 census and that, too, if the Government of the time is willing to withdraw the February 2002 amendment that had banned delimitation of Assembly constituencies to scuttle the age-old demand in Jammu for proper representation in the Assembly.
The Assembly discusses and decides questions of supreme importance for the well-being and happiness of the people of the State. The plight and political status of the people of Jammu region will not change unless they get equal, if not more, representation in the State Assembly.
These are only a few of several such examples which serve to prove the critics of the Agenda of Alliance right and its votaries absolutely wrong. The decision of the BJP to not re-stitch alliance with the PDP needs to be viewed in this context, as also in the light of the national mood. |
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