Friday, 15 March 2013

Amid Afzal uproar, demand for Jammu state

The demand of separate state for the Jammu region echoed in the Assembly today.

Follow up:

When National Conference (NC) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) members were competing with each other in the Assembly on the return of Afzal Guru’s mortal remains, Jammu State Morcha (JSM) legislator Ashwani Sharma shouted, “This House is wasting time on a person who had masterminded killing of nearly 20 people. The Assembly has virtually been hijacked by sympathisers of militants.”

“This House has no time for discussing issues relating to people of the Jammu region so we demand separate state for Jammu to get rid of those people who waste time discussing such terrorists,” he said.

Pointing towards Congress MLA from Bhaderwah Mohammad Sharief Niaz, who was silently watching the sloganeering members of the PDP, Ashwani said, “When Jammu would be a separate state, Niaz sahib would be our first Chief Minister.”





Not only JSM member, even BJP and Panthers Party members expressed their resentment against ignoring important issues in the Assembly and wasting time on Afzal Guru.

“I failed to understand why this House is wasting time on a terrorist. There are many other important issues,” said Panthers Party MLA Balwant Singh Mankotia. He said during every session these parties (NC and PDP) waste precious time of the Assembly on such terrorists.

Earlier, PDP and NC members made it a point to suffix Afzal Guru with “sahib” and “shaheed” titles.

Veteran PDP leader Moulvi Iftikhar Hussain Ansari, who had earlier remained associated with the Congress for a long time, held Afzal in high regard. He said Afzal was a martyr. Similarly, PDP member Javed Mustafa Mir made it a point to repeatedly call Afzal as “sahib”.

Mir was repeatedly raising slogans such as “Guru sahib ki body ko wapas lao wapas lao”.

National Conference leaders also called Afzal as “sahib”. Even Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Mir Saifullah called Afzal as “sahib”.

No comments:

Post a Comment