Change name game in contradiction to statehood talk

Though none else than the Union Home Minister Amit Shah promised statehood to Jammu & Kashmir on August 5 last year when he moved a legislation on J&K Reorganisation in Lok Sabha but changing the name of departments and winding up several key public sector corporation is sufficient enough an indicate that people of Jammu & Kashmir have to wait for a long time for the return to statehood. Well says former Omar Abdullah that renaming PHE, Irrigation & Flood Control Department as “Jal Shakti Department” won’t improve its working overnight. Though nothing new in the politics of “change name game” pursued by BJP the party in power at centre even at the national level but renaming PHE, Irrigation & Flood Control Department as “Jal Shaki Department” is obviously an attempt to further the causes of linguistic intrusion in Jammu & Kashmir. Naming erstwhile “planning commission” as “Niti Ayog” almost six years ago instead of improving the country economy intensified the economic slowdown even before the break out of COVID-19 pandemic across the country. Knowing that Jammu & Kashmir is known world over for its multi-religious, multi-lingual and multicultural ethos, better it would have been for the central government commanded and controlled by BJP not to further the causes of linguistic intrusions and religious provocations by imposing it’s own provocative decisions over the people of Jammu & Kashmir against their whims and wishes .
Renaming departments or public places of historical importance and winding up public sector corporations are not the steps in the direction of the fulfillment of commitment made by the incumbent BJP government in the post Article 370 bifurcation scenario.
Instead of imposing plans of linguistic intrusions and political provocations it would be better for the central government to live up to its own commitments. True it may that all previous non BJP governments did not keep their promises with the people of Jammu & Kashmir but the BJP government commanding brute majority in the parliament continues to harp on politics of linguistic intrusions and regional provocations just to evade queries over its commitment for return of statehood to Jammu & Kashmir. Renaming departments or public places of historical importance and winding up public sector corporations are not the steps in the direction of the fulfillment of commitment made by the incumbent BJP government in the post Article 370 bifurcation scenario. Better for the BJP commanding and controlling the incumbent central government to leave decisions like renaming departments or winding up public sector corporations for the new popular government and take measures to keep its promises made to the people by the Home Minister and Prime Minister of the country within and outside parliament in full public glare.