The Jammu centric leaders always cry foul on every issue taken by the government and this time they are crying illogically over the nomination of Chief Minister’s brother to the legislative council for the seat vacated by the resignation of Vikramaditya Singh- the grandson of state’s last Dogra feudalistic ruler of Maharaja Hari Singh. As far as the constitutional mandate governing the nomination seats of the legislative council it may be mentioned here that not a single nomination seat is allotted to any particular regional but the people to be recommended for the nomination seats should have contributed immensely in the fields of literature, art, culture, science and linguistics and any one belonging to socially and educationally backward classes is also eligible for nomination to the legislative council. Unfortunately the incumbent PDP-BJP coalition government did not bother to take care of the constitutional guidelines in recommending the right people for the nomination seats first under the chief ministership of late Mufti Mohammad Sayeed and now under the chief ministership Mehbooba Mufti. Those claiming that the seat vacated by the resignation of Vikramatiya Singh over ideological differences with the PDP top brass has to be necessarily filled by the nomination of Jammu person should go through the constitutional guidelines for the nomination seats. As far as the constitutional guidelines on nomination of council seats are concerned, the cabinet has the unquestionable discretion of choosing a person having contributed immensely in the fields of literature, art, culture, science, linguistics and worked for the welfare of the socially and educationally backward classes for the nomination seats.
The Jammu centric leaders don’t raise the questions which Prime Minister Narendra Modi raised during 2014 parliamentary elections and this year’s assembly elections in Gujrat as they could have sought explanations from the BJP also for becoming a party to a decision taken to impose a non political entity Tasaduq Mufti only for possessing the qualification of being the son of a former Chief Minister. Jammu centric leaders have shown that they are bothered much about the regional and religious polarization and less about the political morality put on the ventilator by the incumbent Mehbooba government.
Had the Jammu centric leaders crying an illogical foul over alleged regional discrimination questioned the right of Mehbooba’s cabinet to recommend her brother for the nomination seat vacated by the resignation of Vikramadatiya Singh the son of former Sadr-e-Reyasat and senior Congress leader Dr Karan Singh, they would have found many supporters over such a logical objection on their side in Kashmir also. Since Tasaduq Mufti the son of Mufti Mohammad Sayeed two time former Chief Minister has replaced Vikramadatiya Singh the son of former Sadr-e-Reyast in the legislative council ,the leaders in Jammu reserve the right to ask the Chief Minister that why the son of a former Chief Minister only has been found fit to replace the son of former Sadr-e-Reyasat. The Jammu centric leaders don’t raise the questions which Prime Minister Narendra Modi raised during 2014 parliamentary elections and this year’s assembly elections in Gujrat as they could have sought explanations from the BJP also for becoming a party to a decision taken to impose a non political entity Tasaduq Mufti only for possessing the qualification of being the son of a former Chief Minister. Jammu centric leaders have shown that they are bothered much about the regional and religious polarization and less about the political morality put on the ventilator by the incumbent Mehbooba government.
