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| PDP has done it whatever the reason | | Changing attitude? | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 21: December 20 would go down in the political history of Jammu & Kashmir post-1957 as a red letter day and for right reason. The case in point is what the PDP Education Minister and government spokesperson Naeem Akhtar said without mincing words about the Indian Constitution while tearing into the opportunistic NC. Tearing into the NC and its working president Omar Abdullah, Akhtar said: Indian Constitution is supreme and that it was the NC which eroded Article 370 and not the PDP".
"The Constitution of India is supreme. Do you (NC and Omar Abdullah) disagree with this that Constitution of India is supreme? And we have another Constitution, the Constitution of J&K. I am a minister and I take under the Constitution of Jammu & Kashmir and swear by the Constitution of India".
That the PDP, which had been demanding self-rule (withdrawal of all the Central laws from the state) since its very inception in 1999, would declare that the Constitution of India was supreme was a statement of great national and constitutional import. But more than that, the statement was made despite the fact that Kashmir politics is a different ball game.
Omar Abdullah had on December 18 lambasted the Mehbooba Mufti-led coalition government and accused it of allowing the BJP to dilute the state's special status it Indian Constitution. Omar Abdullah had also targeted the Union Government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. "The Union Government is using judicial route to undermine Article 370 and the constitutional character of Jammu & Kashmir," he had said to instigate the Kashmiri Muslims and paint the PDP black, anti-Kashmir and pro-BJP.
The response of the J&K Govt to the NC's onslaught on it was highly appreciative as it was for the first time after 1957 that any Kashmiri leader, especially the government spokesperson, made such an unambiguous statement that Indian Constitution was supreme.
Actually, it was the December 16 landmark judgement of the Supreme Court of India on the political status of Jammu & Kashmir vis-a-vis India, Constitution of J&K vis-a-vis India and the people of J&K vis-a-vis rest of the Indians that had brought the NC plus Kashmiri separatists, Kashmiri lawyers and Kashmiri civil society groups face to face with the PDP.
The Supreme Court had said that the Constitution of Jammu & Kashmir was subordinate to the Indian Constitution and dismissed the J&K Government's stand on the application of the central law under which the bank could attach or sell the defaulters' immovable properties. Now that the state government itself has acknowledged that Indian Constitution is supreme, it can be said that the political status of the state stands completely clarified and that there exists no dispute. |
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