of the government.NC has incited the effective ,stable and strong BJP opposition and thus the stalemate
and pandemonium and lastly the adjournment of the legislative assembly sine die .Is this all negative
and stalemate as was seen and witnessed in the proceedings of the assembly as historical? Instead of
negativity and fights and fists in the assembly both the treasury and opposition members of the
assembly should work in cooperation and coordination and concentrated on addressing the issues and
problems confronting the people .Thus the government and the opposition should cooperated and pay
heed towards resolving the mundane and day to day issues and concerns of the people .In the recently
concluded assembly polls ,the people of J &K have mandated NC-Congress alliance for government
formation and at the same time a very big chunk of the voters have voted in favor of the BJP and has
given to it the mandate to perform the role and function of an effective opposition .The people of J&K
have trusted NC-Congress alliance for governance and the BJP for performing the democratic role of
opposition .Both the government that is NC and opposition that is BJP should work in unison to mitigate
and resolve the pressing problems of the people .Thus the NC and BJP should focus their attention on
giving some relief to the people who have elected them as their representatives .The new government
headed by chief minister Omar Abdullah should have started his new inning with positive note ,but alas!
Instead it has chosen the path of confrontation and antagonism with the centre and it is harmful for the
people of J&K as after all the UT depends on the centre for generous funds and finances for running the
government and more for the economic development of JK people .Therefore the new government
cannot afford to displease the NDA government of the centre but instead keep it in pleasant mood and
extract as much finances as required for the development of the UT .However ,the NC-Congress
coalition has started the new inning on a negative note which is not in the interest of the alienated and
orphaned people of JK. People’s belly will hardly be filled and satiated by the empty slogans and rhetoric
and by passing the useless resolution seeking the dialogue with the centre for restoration of article
370.People of Jammu and Kashmir are more interested and concerned to get some relief from the
people’s government so that their pressing needs and problems are addressed .The sheer politics of
passage of the special status resolution could have waited and it should not have been the first priority
of the new government headed by NC’s Omar but the powers in JK chose otherwise and worked in haste
and moved and passed the useless resolution which will be rejected by the centre government .The
special status resolution passed by the JK assembly will need the stamp and approval of the LG and he is
unlikely to approve it and this will be the embracement for the NC government and it has the potential
of straining the relations between the coalition government and the LG.NC government has started with
a wrong thing by passing special status resolution and it is the Omar himself who has said that it is
foolish to expect that NDA will reinstate article 370 and then he had second thought and his government
moved special status resolution in haste only to be dumped by the centre government .NC ,PDP
,Congress and other parties should see the writing on wall that article 370 is a history and not take
cudgels with the centre government and in this lies the good of the UT and its government .The passage
of the special resolution by the Assembly is not historical but it is sheer and dirty politicking and political
gimmicks to hoodwink the gullible people who have reposed their trust in NC-Congress alliance.
The author is a columnist,social and KP activist
How is the Article 370 resolution Historical?Omkar DattatrayOne is at a loss to understand how is the passage of the resolution asking the GOI to hold a dialogue inconnection with the reinstatement of the abrogated 370 historical. CM Omar Abdullah said that theresolution seeking the restoration of special status and its passage by the first assembly of the UT ofJammu and Kashmir is historic .May one remind Abdullah that their NC government in 2002 had passeda resolution favoring autonomy for Jammu and Kashmir in the then assembly of the erstwhile state onlyto see it to be consigned to the dustbin by the central government .And the present resolution asking forthe restoration of special status to Jammu and Kashmir will also be rejected outrightly by the NDAgovernment headed by the BJP and Modi .The current resolution will also find place in the dustbin .Thearticle 370 of the constitution had been buried forever by the Modi government in 2019 and thusensured the full integration of J&K with Indian union .The BJP/NDA government had fulfilled the dreamof national leader and Jansung ideologue Lt.Dr Shyama Prasad Mukerjee who had sacrificed his preciouslife for the full integration of J&K with India.PM Modi has reiterated that no power on earth can restorearticle 370 in the constitution .Article 370 and by virtue of it the special status to Jammu and Kashmir isa history and the clock cannot be turned back and the river of Jhelum cannot also be turned back and soArticle 370 cannot be reviewed.NC government has the habit of passing resolutions only to hoodwinkthe gullible masses and to divert the attention of the people from pressing needs .In the present case ofpassing of a resolution seeking a dialogue with the centre government is nothing beyond dirty politics toappease the core constituency of the NC .By passing the resolution special status resolution in theassembly ,NC tried to hoodwink the gullible masses and also gave the impression to the people of JKread Kashmir that it and the NC –Congress coalition government is serious about revival andreinstatement of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir .The legislative assembly of J&K has no powerand authority to review abrogate Article 370.In fact the revival and restoration of annulled article 370 isthe prerogative ,privilege and power of the centre government and the Indian Parliament which hadabrogated controversial article 370 constitutionally ,legally and lawfully and its restoration lies with thecentral government .No central government and more so the nationalistic NDA government headed byBJP’s Narendra Modi will give back the article 370 to J &K .NC ,PDP ,Congress, PC,CPIM and others areliving in a fool’s paradise if they think that the article 370 can be revived .Such thinking of these politicalparties and their leaders is akin to seeing Mungarilal Ke Sawpane. Therefore it is better for the Omargovernment to focus on addressing the pressing demands and issues of the people of Jammu andKashmir .The top priorities of the new democratic government should be the provision of good roads,schools ,hospitals ,housing, uninterrupted electricity especially in Kashmir region as the winter is fastapproaching .Besides ,good and hygienic drinking water ,control of rising and soaring prices of the dailyuse goods and services and last but not the least provision of employment opportunities to theeducated and employed youth should also the immediate and top priority of the new government .Ispandemonium ,continuous ruckus, marshalling of the opposition MLA’s and fists and quarrels as well astotal indiscipline ,chaos and confusion the signs and symbols of the historic happenings of the legislativeassembly .Opposition and in the present case the BJP has the democratic right to oppose the functioning
