Jammu, Sep 29 : The National Conference hit out at the BJP and Congress Saturday, saying the “unprecedented” political uncertainty in Jammu and Kashmir was mainly because of the “ambiguity” in their stand on state subject laws.
“The BJP and the Congress sing different tones at different places on the state subject laws as per their political exigencies and the ambiguity in their stand has been mainly responsible for the unprecedented political uncertainty in Jammu and Kashmir,” NC provincial president Devender Singh Rana said.
Addressing senior party colleagues from different parts of the Jammu province at party headquarters here, he asked the BJP and the Congress to clear stand on the state subject laws.
“The two parties cannot play hide and seek or sit on both sides of the fence on this important and sensitive issue,” Rana said, blaming them for bringing the state to such a passe where “confusion and chaos have overtaken the genuine political process and aspirations”.
“The two parties seem to be in league with each other to marginalise the genuine political forces in a bid to weaken the distinct status of Jammu and Kashmir and identity of its people,” he claimed.
He, however, warned that the NC will “no more allow these machinations to succeed, come what may.”
Rana assailed the BJP and the Congress for “playing politics” over state subject laws with a “larger and sinister design and colonial mindset”.
“The National Conference will fight tooth and nail the sinister designs of the two parties,” he said, adding that the people of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh were sagacious enough to read between the lines.
In an apparent reference to Article 35A of the constitution, Rana said the attempts of tinkering with the state subject law is a matter of grave concern for the people of Jammu in particular, as it is a shield to unique Dogra culture and identity besides their economic interests.
“It is also important to uphold this constitutional guarantee to preserve Dogra race, its speech, its history, its legends and its tradition, in the multi religious , multilingual, multi-racial, multi traditional canvas of India,” Rana said.
He asked the two parties to spell out their stand on “fake state subjects posing a grave threat to identity, economy and resources of the Jammu province”.
“The BJP and the Congress must explain to the people of Jammu about the fate of fake state subjects, which have exploited and usurped the legitimate rights and avenues of sustenance of self-respecting Dogras and were now conniving with the BJP to dispense with state subject law,” he said.
