OVER A CUP OF COFFEE – IS PM/INDIA A SHER

The violence in the NIT campus at Srinagar has brought out emotional outbursts that the Centre is inept and that HM message on bringing the matter to the notice of the CM/J&K as inadequate.  A large number of people have become emotional on the subject that the nationlist students are taken to task by lathi-charge and those perpetrated the violence have gone scot free and the nationalist students live in fear.  On the contrary, the nationalist students have gone a step further and insist that the national flag will be hoisted everyday, only shows to prove the determination of the students with the protection they received from the CRPF and the inquiry that has been constituted by Mehbooba govt on the lathi charge in the campus.  

Shyam and Gopu agreed that the law of the land should be given the priority to prevail upon the situation in the NIT Srinagar and a way devised to curb the anti-nationalists to use the campus for fomenting violence.  This calls for assurance to the nationalist students to continue their studies unhindered and finish the course with examinations by the NIT authorities as a first step.  The inquiry on lathi charge in campus should also identify whether any faculty of the NIT had threatened the nationalist students that they will have to face them in the examination.  Adequate care must be taken to assuage the feelings of nationalist students to take up the examination without any doubts in their mind. Counselling sessions will have to follow immediately to inculcate in the students, their studies should be uppermost in their mind and rest of the issues can be put to rest. 

NIT authorities should be questioned on the aspects that have led to the incidence and what action they have taken so for and what they would like to take for non-recurrence of a situation.  Adequate safeguards should be provided to the institution and also where necessary students have to be taken up at the slightest measure of anti-nationalism and should be clearly brought to them that educational institutions cannot tolerate such incidences.

The new dispensation in J&K, the PDP-BJP combine has to take decisive steps to put down anti-national activities and there is no two opinions that all round growth in Kashmir and adequate employment for the youth only can solve their problems.  Tourism which has totally been hit has to resume and opportunities lost earlier should be regained.  Fair number of job opportunities have to be created in the next 24 months.   The centre should help that both private and public enterprises to employ a percentage of their requirement from those coming out of J&K insitutions to increase their job opportunities.   Painting every Kashmiri in bad light wont do and opportunities should instead make them part of the system either in Tourism or development of the State in export oriented areas.

Here Gopu referred to talk on PM as Sher and that he has failed totally to condemn Islamic terror in unequivocal terms elsewhere in the world on his tour and thus he is inept and that his government is not doing what is required to protect the nationalist  students in NIT Srinagar.

This cannot be accepted as a PM cannot intervene in a campus unrest and that when the Centre with the help of the state government has taken action to stop the violence with the help of the CRPF.  The killings in Tamilnadu/Kerala is another matter shown for PM not acting.  The previous government at the Centre has allowed in Kerala the spread of anti-nationalism in specified pockets and thus these killings. As per Tamilnadu, the local government requires a dressing down with intelligence inputs.   PM might have failed on time frame of bringing back the corrupt/looted money and that does not mean he has failed altogether.  But the government has introduced schemes by which they have eliminated middlemen in distribution of money to the ultimate beneficiary.  It has taken the bold step to store the petroleum crude in our shores for neighbours and in the process help ourselves too.  Delevelopment schemes on the anvil, can produce results only in the longer run.  The Rajya Sabha while really serving as a watchdog of the bills brought by the Lok Sabha has unfortunately going the way of party affiliations and not as intellectuals or experts from various fields would act.   However unless the people are involved to constructively criticize the functioning of the government in the areas of agriculture, economics, education and various schemes of governments, the government will be of the impression everything is going as per plan.   The government so far has shown that its members have shunned corruption.  Shyam wondered Will the people support where necessary but also bear in mind, that we have to go a long way to set right the wrongs of the past.   That has to be done with the existing system and Sher has to tread its path to succeed in this too. Succeeding in the growth path and acquiring strength based on that only can show the way to States, whether it is on governance or on terror.

Gopu and Shyam bid bye agreeing to meet shortly.