Decode Politics: Why there is a demand for a Dogra CM from Jammu

What is the governmental nonsubjective down the appeal?

This is an effort to polarise Hindus from the plains of Jammu and consolidate them to guarantee the BJP wins arsenic galore seats from the Jammu part that has 43 Assembly seats and gets the accidental to beryllium successful a presumption to person a accidental successful authorities formation. As per the 2011 Census, determination are 68.8% Muslims successful J&K, the bulk successful the Kashmir Valley and 28.8% Hindus of whom the bulk unrecorded successful Jammu.

The entreaty besides plays connected the Hindu Dogra community’s nostalgia astir the clip — 1846 to 1947 — erstwhile it ruled the erstwhile princely authorities of Jammu and Kashmir.

When did the request for a CM from Jammu travel up?

The thought has its roots successful the 2002 Assembly polls that threw up a hung verdict, with the National Conference (NC) coming down to 28 seats from 57 successful the past 87-member Assembly. The Congress won 20 seats and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) bagged 16, forming a conjugation authorities on with smaller outfits specified arsenic the Panthers Party, the CPI(M), and immoderate Independent MLAs.

The authorities failed to implicit its word and the adjacent Assembly polls successful 2008 besides threw up a hung mandate, forcing the NC and the Congress to signifier a post-poll conjugation and signifier the government.

With the governmental forces successful the Valley progressively fractured, politicians from Jammu progressively came to judge that the plains could get their ain CM. Ahead of the elections successful 2014 elections, Sharma who was past the Congress MLA from Akhnoor discontinue arsenic the authorities Cabinet curate alleging favoritism successful the regularisation of regular wagers successful Jammu successful the Department of Public Health Engineering (now the Jal Shakti Ministry) who were paid Rs 900-1,500 a month. Of the 11,984 regular wage workers regularised since 1994, lone 855 were from the Jammu division, helium said.

In the elections that year, the BJP won 25 seats from Jammu aft Hindu voters consolidated down the enactment and paved the mode for it to travel to powerfulness with the PDP. Dependent connected voters from the plains of Jammu, the BJP has said Jammu should person a accidental successful the enactment of the caller J&K authorities and if it wins a afloat majority, the CM elected volition beryllium from the region. However, it has not clarified which assemblage the CM volition beryllium from.

How galore from Jammu person held the apical station successful J&K?

From its ascension to the Union of India successful 1947 till March 5, 1965, Jammu and Kashmir utilized to person the bureau of a Prime Minister. Except for Justice Mehr Chand Mahajan, the archetypal PM of J&K, the remainder were from the Valley: Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad, Khawaja Shamsuddin, and Ghulam Mohammad Sadiq.

The nomenclature of the bureau of Prime Minister was past changed to Chief Minister and the Sadar-e-Riyast (president) to Governor. Of each its CMs, lone Ghulam Nabi Azad, from Doda district, has been from Jammu. Azad became the CM arsenic the Congress and the PDP had struck a woody to stock the apical job. After Mufti Mohammad Sayeed stepped down successful November 2005, Azad was elected CM arsenic astir of the Congress’s MLAs were from the Jammu division.