Saturday, August 9, 2008

Congress MP demands the recall of Governor

The Congress party Member of the Parliament from Jammu, Madan Lal Sharma, on Thursday advised the Union government to appoint Karan Singh as the chairman of the reconstituted Shri Amarnath Shrine Board and hand over the land to the board to salvage the situation.
Sharma alleged that since the two Congress MPs from Jammu region, himself and Lal Singh, were vocal about their demands, they were not invited for the all-party meeting.
“Jammu was not represented in the all-party meeting which was called to evolve ways to manage the situation there. The National Conference was, however, allowed to bring in three of its party representatives from Kashmir besides Farooq Abdullah,” Sharma said.
Sharma believes the party is still playing into the hands of Kashmir-centric politicians who are the root cause of the problem. What is being witnessed on the streets of Jammu is the outburst of years of pent up anger of the people of the region. Both Jammu and Ladakh have been treated as poor cousins of Kashmir.