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More powers for all but Kashmir
NEW DELHI. July 4. Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Dr Farooq Abdullah s demand for greater autonomy for the state his National Conference Party rules appears to have rekindled the old debate on the sensitive issue of power-sharing between the states and the centre in a federal set-up in India.
The demand for greater financial. executive and legislative powers for the states is almost as old as independent India itself For several years since India s freedom in 1947. the Congress parts not only ruled the country but also most of the states.
As a result, it was easier for the Congress high command to keep under leash initial muffled voices for greater more powers for the states.
As Congress’ hold declined over the decades and the political space was grabbed by more and more regional parties, the
noise for autonomy grew increasingly louder So much so that the Congress federal government under Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had to set up Ln the eighties a commission headed by justice Sarkaria on relations between the state government mid the federal administrations.
Some of BJP's present regional allies like DMK in Tamil Nadu. TDP in Andhra Pradesh and Akali Dal in Punjab had in the past voiced their demands for greater powers to the states.
The autonomy demand in the past in North Eastern India had led to the adoption of Article 244(A) under which the state of Meghalaya was created out of Assam. The state enjoys special provisions as a tribal region. Two autonomous councils - in the Karbi Anglong and Nortli Cathar Hill Districts - were subsequently formed in Assam under the constitutional provi-
sion.
The emergence of regional parties at the cost of national parties like Congress and BJP served to highlight this issue especially In the backdrop of increasing aspirations for a share in the power cake
While the regional parties in certain states have defined their concept of autonomy in terms of devolution of more powers lor the state governments, the demand for greater autonomy by the National (Conference, under the leadership of Farooq Abdullah and earlier his father Sheikh Abdullah. have had serious implication for Indias national integrity and security.
The BJP itself publicly favours devolution of powers to the suites but opposes tooth and nail the autonomy resolution passed by Jammu and Kashmir
Assembly saying that, it accepted by federal government and parliament, it would lead to disintegration of India.
What has boosted BJP is that Abdullahs greater autonomy demand has not found support from the regional parties which have traditionally been at the forefront of more powers to (he states' campaign.
Parties like Akali Dal. DMK. TDP and MDMK (a small party tn Tamil Nadu), which are constituents of ruling BJP-led alliance. have made it clear that they disagree with the content of the resolution adopted by Jammu and Kashmir assembly.
Abdullah, on the other hand, sought to allay the fears that the resolution constituted the first step towards secession of Jammu and Kashmir.
"The accession of Jammu and Kashmir to India is final and Irrevocable, We do not want to secede from India, " Abdullah told reporters two days back.
But the Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister continues to be under attack both from main opposition Congress and ruling BJP. The Congress has said that it is against even a discussion in parliament on the autonomy resolution as passed by Jammu and Kashmir assembly.
BJP president Kushbhau Thakre met Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee soon after the latter's return from abroad and conveyed to him the party's opposition to Un* autonomy resolution. I