Jammu, July 6 (KIP):- Though a resolution was adopted in the
Legislative Assembly seeking extension of GST regime to the state of
Jammu and Kashmir, the row continues between the opposition and the
coalition Government.
The National Conference has ridiculed the coalition Government for
undermining special status of the state under Artcile 370 when the
same NC was in power scores of central laws were extended to the st
ate even without seeking approval of the state legislature. The NC
regimes simply issued ordinances under which various central laws were
applied to Jammu and Kashmir.
And now the same NC was blaming the PDP-BJP coalition Government
for having diluted fiscal autonomy of the state. First of all is the
state enjoying fiscal autonomy? Certainly not because it banks on
central funds and even the part of the wage bill of the employees is
met by the centre.
Article 370 is practically non-existent and pro-Indian parties
have reduced it to mere skeleton, Hurriyat (G) chairman, Syed Ali
Geelani said here, adding that the Indira-Abdullah accord proved as
last nail in its coffin.
Reacting sharply to NC's allegation that he was trying to “bail out”
PDP-BJP government on the implementation of GST in the state, Geelani
said his party will come up with a white paper about the “dubious”
role played by NC with respect to the “gradual erosion” of Article
370.
“It was Late Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah who just for the sake of power
ignored all these provisions, shelved the slogan of plebiscite and
without taking into consideration importance of nomenclatures of
Sadr-e-Riyasat and Wazir Azam decided to get into power corridors,”
Geelani said.
Stating that the implementation of GST is part of the policy pursued
by New Delhi to get rid of the special status of the state, he blamed
the pro-India parties, including NC and Peoples Democratic Party, of
acting as “pawns for their masters in Delhi” and legitimizing the
“forced occupation of India”.(KIP)
