The public outrage after a rumour about the hearing on a fresh petition on Article 35 A Monday this week was in fact a sharp reaction to the laxity the Narendra Modi led BJP government is showing in defending Article 35 A . Had the Modi government filed a counter affidavit to defend the article 35 A in the Supreme Court the tendencies of moving more and more petitions against article 35 won’t have been increased month after month. Even naives can understand that BJP leader Ashvini Upadhya won’t have dared to come up with one more petition before the supreme court if the party’s central high command would have restrained the party cadres from filing more petitions against article 35 A. Filing more and more petitions against Article 35 A by BJP and its hard core affiliates is by all standards of understandabilities a political provocation likely to evoke an equally strong reaction from the defenders of Article 35 A. Since people in Jammu too have come out in open against attempts of tinkering with article 35 A the BJP’s tendencies of filing more and more petitions against article 35 A in the supreme court is tantamount to waging a war against the people of Jammu & Kashmir. Interestingly no one in Delhi asks the Modi government to clarify its position over adjournment it sought during the last hearing in the supreme court.
The public outrage after a rumour about hearing on a fresh petition against Article 35 A on Monday this week has sent out a strong message to the central government that taking any lenient view of the strong public resentment against tinkering with article 35 A would by probabilities prove detrimental for the atmosphere of peace and security in Jammu & Kashmir particularly the Kashmir valley and parts of Chenab valley and Pir Panjal region in Jammu province.
Had the opposition parties in Delhi sought clarifications from the Modi government for seeking adjournments during hearings of the petitions filed against article 35 A the intents of the Attorney General on filing a counter affidavit to defend the case would have been cleared. The public outrage after a rumour about hearing on a fresh petition against Article 35 A on Monday this week has sent out a strong message to the central government that taking any lenient view of the strong public resentment against tinkering with article 35 A would by probabilities prove detrimental for the atmosphere of peace and security in Jammu & Kashmir particularly the Kashmir valley and parts of Chenab valley and Pir Panjal region in Jammu province. The call for a meeting of an all party delegation of mainstream leaders with Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his intervention over central government’s stand on article 35 A by senior Congress leader and former Union Minister Prof Saif Ud Din Soz deserves immediate attention of the mainstream leaders as a meeting of a delegation of mainstream leaders can clear the air on Modi government’s official stand on article 35 A. The sooner they seek an audience with the Prime Minister the better it would be for taking the fight for protection of article 35 A into a decisive phase.
