“Knowing that they can’t push through any bill or resolution successfully without the support of the ruling party the opposition parties should have pursued the policy of consensus instead of tending to exploit people of different categories and classes for the purposes of their own political conveniences.”
A long wait of more than five years was though sufficient enough for leaders of Jammu & Kashmir to learn lessons from the blunders of the past but unfortunately they have resumed the politics of exploitation as usual instead of tending to do the real job of law making for the empowerment of the people of Jammu & Kashmir. While decades of the experiences of law making in most parts of the country have shown that opposition parties always bring private member bills just to corner the political party in power and debate a public issue for the sake of public attraction , the opposition leaders in Jammu & Kashmir have unfortunately set a bad trend of bringing private member bills on every long pending issue which they themselves have left unresolved during their reign of power not once but many a times in the past while holding absolute power and authority in the erstwhile full fledged state with special status under Article 370 and Article 35 A non-existent now in the wake of the implementation of J&K Reorganisation Act 2019. Knowing that they can’t push through any bill or resolution successfully without the support of the ruling party the opposition parties should have pursued the policy of consensus instead of tending to exploit people of different categories and classes for the purposes of their own political conveniences. All the opposition parties or few of them having a common meeting ground on ideological lines if tend to pursue the politics of consensus can contribute hugely in the process of legislative and administrative reformation in Jammu & Kashmir. Shockingly 3-5 opposition MLAs having the power to muster the support of just five MLAs are moving private member bills on contentious issues like liquor ban, regularization of daily wagers and property rights to people allotted state land for housing facilities. Experiences of decades have shown that regime after regime debated both the liquor ban bill and the regularization of daily wagers during decades of popular rule but not even a single regime mustered the courage to either push through the liquor ban bill or grant required allocations for regularization of daily wagers. Fact of the matter is that previous regimes could have regularized 60 thousand daily wages by making allocations even in phases but they never bothered to take any initiative and roll out a financial road map for regularisation of daily wagers.
“This not the time for either the ruling or the opposition parties to try to settle political scores under the garb of private member bills on liquor ban, regularisation of daily wagers and property rights to people allotted state land housing facilities but this is the time for both the ruling and opposition parties to do the real job of law making for empowering people irrespective of their regional and religious affiliations and secure their both the job and land rights more stringently than ever before. Ruling and the opposition parties tending to fight a war of nerves in the upcoming budget session of the assembly won’t take people of Jammu & Kashmir nearer to the goals of political empowerment, job rights and land protection if they continue to propagate the politics of acrimonies and animosities in the upcoming budget session of the assembly.”
While the opposition leaders are for last more than two months exploiting the already exploited 60 thousand huge crowd of daily wagers and raise the religious emotions of the people under the garb of liquor ban bill, the ruling party also does not show consistency on its position over both the liquor ban bill and the regularisation of daily wagers besides property rights to those allotted state land for housing facilities. This not the time for either the ruling or the opposition parties to try to settle political scores under the garb of private member bills on liquor ban, regularisation of daily wagers and property rights to people allotted state land housing facilities but this is the time for both the ruling and opposition parties to do the real job of law making for empowering people irrespective of their regional and religious affiliations and secure their both the job and land rights more stringently than ever before. Ruling and the opposition parties tending to fight a war of nerves in the upcoming budget session of the assembly won’t take people of Jammu & Kashmir nearer to the goals of political empowerment, job rights and land protection if they continue to propagate the politics of acrimonies and animosities in the upcoming budget session of the assembly.
