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| Interesting, Jammu Cong leader questions amnesty to traitors | | Poll expediency | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Jul 9: It seems some Jammu-based Congress leaders and former ministers have finally realized that the Valley-centric politics being pursued by the Kashmir-based JKPCC chief is counterproductive for them and that they have to identify themselves with the Jammu sentiment to ensure that they remained relevant in the Jammu's political arena.
Only the other day, one former Congress minister and Ghulam Nabi Azad loyalist, who hails from Billawar, took a stand which was completely different from that of his party chief and other Kashmir-based Congress leaders, who have turned highly Kashmir-centric and who speak the language of other Kashmiri parties, including the NC, and Kashmiri separatists.
Unlike his Kashmiri counterparts, he questioned the PDP-BJP coalition government's controversial decision to grant amnesty to 634 traitors, all involved in heinous crimes and said the decision was fraught with dangerous consequences.
"We strongly condemn the suo moto release of stone-pelters without scrutinising the harshness of their offence. The BJP-PDP government has no intelligence inputs and no control on militant activities", he, inter-alia, said. They were "hell bent to implement their agenda that compromises the national security for which the BJP was committed to the people of the nation, whether it was the issue of release of militants, stone-pelters or destruction of bunkers from Srinagar," he further said in a written statement.
What was significant was not that this minister took on the state government and questioned its motives. What was important was that he made these statements on behalf of the JKPCC and as general secretary of the party, which means he had the concurrence of many a Jammu-based senior Congress leader. It could also mean that some Jammu-based Congress leaders have started preparing themselves to challenge the policy of the Congress high command towards J&K.
But one thing was very clear from the statement: Political expediency forced this minister and other Jammu-based Congress leaders to tread a different path. |
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