Threaten to run parallel govt
Srinagar: After they were marshalled out from the J&K Assembly for protesting against the resolution to restore Article 370, MLAs of BJP held a “parallel assembly” in the premises of the Assembly building in Srinagar on Friday.
Over a dozen BJP MLAs were forcibly removed from the Assembly while the rest of the party MLAs staged a walkout.
BJP MLAs held a “parallel assembly” in the lawns of the Assembly building where BJP MLA Sham Lal Sharma acted as the Speaker and heard the members, who spoke against the resolution.
“The way our honourable members were marshalled out is hooliganism. We had a lot of hopes with the Speaker because of his experience, but the way we were treated is unfortunate”, Pavan Gupta, a BJP MLA said in the parallel assembly and condemned the actions within the House.
He added that people are happy in Kashmir because of the peaceful situation that arose after the scrapping of Article 370. Several other MLAs spoke on the occasion.
Chander Prakash Ganga, a BJP MLA termed the legislators who brought the posters in the house as “separatists.”
The majority of legislators from BJP were marshalled out after they tried to storm into the well of house to demand the rollback of the resolution passed on special status of Jammu and Kashmir. Remaining BJP MLAs staged a walk out in protest.
Speaker Abdul Rahim Rather told the marshals of the Assembly to not allow the BJP MLAs to re-enter the house.
On Wednesday, Deputy Chief Minister Surinder Choudhary plotted a resolution seeking the restoration of Article 370. The resolution was passed with voice vote.
While 42 NC MLAs voted in favour of the resolution, Independent MLAs, Sajad Gani Lone, Khurshid Ahmad Sheikh, CPI-M, MLA, Yusuf Tarigami and three PDP members also voted in favour of the resolution.
Meanwhile, the Leader of Opposition (LoP) in Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly, Sunil Sharma said that the party will run a parallel government in case the behavior of the government doesn’t change.
Addressing a news conference, Sharma said that the Speaker has worked as an agent of a particular party and conducted unconstitutional acts.
“The leaders had to speak on the government’s promises and also on the LG’s motion, but the NC moved a resolution against the decision taken by the parliament on August 05, 2019, thereby showing its separatism agenda in the house,” he said.
However, he added that it is unfortunate that the Speaker of the assembly in the press has stated that the resolution is a demand for Article 370 restoration, which was removed by the parliament and settled by the Supreme Court as well.
“I want to challenge Omar Abdullah to show a single place where the special status to J&K was mentioned in the Indian constitution. If he proves it, I will quit politics,” he said, adding that Article 370 is a history, which was a temporary provision and was removed forever.
Stating that the NC has now been pressing for the special status, in which exodus of Kashmir Pandits took place, 21800 civilians were killed, Asiya-Nelofar were killed, Tufail Mattoo was killed, Haji Yousuf was killed. They don’t want tourism here but street violence, which BJP won’t allow,” Sharma said.
Sharma also said that the parallel assembly was held in the lawns of J&K legislative Assembly today after the BJP MLAs were marshalled out of the house, adding that the parallel assembly should not be taken lightly and in case the government’s behavior won’t change, they will run a parallel government in Jammu & Kashmir.
He added that there has been a commitment on Statehood restoration by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah, but NC has been creating a situation to ensure the Statehood is not restored. (IANS/KNO)
