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Indian rupees don't dilute J&K's special status, other things do 6/18/2016 11:17:03 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, June 18: Strange is the logic that Kashmiri leadership advances to make the powers-that-be in New Delhi believe that the introduction of Central Laws alienate the Kashmiri Muslims and erode the state's special status. They say that since Jammu and Kashmir enjoys special status under Article 370 of the Indian Constitution, New Delhi must refrain from bringing the state under the purview of any Central Law and any Central Institution. What has been transpiring in the state legislature since May 25 has established beyond any doubt that all the Kashmiri lawmakers and the BJP lawmakers are on the one side and independent MLA from Udhampur, Pawan Gupta, on the other side. It is 86 vs 1 in the Assembly. A reference to just two instances would be enough to establish the point that 86 lawmakers are one as far as their stand on National Food Security Act and Goods and Services Tax (GST) is concerned. While the Kashmiri lawmakers dismissed the NFSA as an attack on the state's special status, the BJP lawmakers, without any exception, endorsed their stand. Leave aside a couple of statements made by a couple of BJP ministers in Srinagar and Jammu for public consumption. The result was that the drastic changes were made in the NFSA to preserve what the Kashmiri lawmakers and their supporters from Jammu called the state's special status. The other instance is what Finance Minister Haseeb Drabu said in the Assembly on June 16 while talking about the Goods and Service Tax (GST). He opposed the law, saying it didn't take into consideration the state's special status. Citing its "unique constitutional status", he asked the Centre to protect the state's special taxation powers while rolling out the GST. Giving the information to the Assembly, Drabu said the draft GST bill circulated by the Centre didn't incorporate any safeguards to protect the Jammu and Kashmir's special taxation powers. "I have made a case for safeguards being put in place before the proposed legislation and I have been assured by the Union Finance Minister (Arun Jaitley) that it will be done," he told the Assembly. If these Central Laws erode the State's special status, the Indian rupees don't. They want New Delhi to announce more and more financial packages and meet all the financial requirements of the state, including meeting the state's wage bill, They want more and more funds overlooking the fact that the Instrument of Accession under which the State acceded to India on October 26, 1947 nowhere talks about finances. It only talks about foreign affairs, communication and defence. But the Kashmiri lawmakers conveniently overlook this fact while demanding more and more funds from the Centre. All this should expose the Kashmiri leader-ship's dual approach and establish that they hate everything Indian, barring Indian rupees. It is not strange?   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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