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| Silence of Jammu Cong leaders intriguing | | Cong stands exposed, bats for office of Sadar-e-Riyasat | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, July 2: The Congress says that it is a party of an all-India character and also considers J&K an integral part of India. This is a false claim. The Congress has all through considered J&K a disputed region and that was the reason it granted special status to the state on the ground that it was a Muslim-majority state.
J&K is not really a Muslim-majority state. More than 40 per cent population, which occupied almost 80 per cent of the state's land area, is non-Muslim. There is a general view that all the census figures are fudged only to tell the country that J&K is a Muslim-majority state.
The Congress leadership did all that it could to drive J&K away from the national mainstream and never took the aspirations of the people of Jammu and Ladakh into consideration, as it considered them third grade citizens and Kashmiri Muslim leadership the sole factor in the state. The history of the Congress in J&K post-1947 is a history of betrayal and subversion of democratic processes, as also a history of blunders.
What transpired in the assembly the other day established that the Congress did not consider J&K a normal state and that it, like the NC, the CPI-M and other so-called mainstream parties in the Valley, wanted the state not to brought at par with other states of the Union.
The case in point is the support the Congress extended to the CPI-M's demand seeking conversion of the office of Governor into office of Sadar-e-Riyasat. In other words, it supported its demand seeking pre-1953 position for J&K.
It was CPI-M MLA Muhammad Yousuf Tarigami who moved private member's bill in the assembly seeking amendment to the Constitution of Jammu and Kashmir for replacing the "Governor" with "Sadr-i-Riyasat" (President of the state). The bill was rejected at the introduction stage.
However, the controversial bill got support from opposition National Conference, Congress and independent MLA Sheikh Abdul Rashid. In fact, the Congress, the NC and seditionist Rashid in one voice supported Tarigami's divisive bill.
That the Congress would support the demand of Tarigami and that the NC would also do the same should open the eyes of the people of Jammu province and Ladakh region and make them realize that there is no fundamental difference between the NC and the Congress and other political parties in the Kashmir Valley.
Indeed, the Congress is digging its grave in J&K like it has been doing across the nation. It will not learn any lesson from its past mistakes. |
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