Regional aspirations should bow to national
aspirations: Omar
New Delhi, Apr 5: Against the backdrop of DMK quitting the UPA
over Sri Lankan Tamils issue, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah
Friday said assertive regionalism should not be "disproportionate" to
national aspirations. The National Conference leader was also of the view that
regional aspirations should generally "bow" to national aspirations.
Omar said coalition politics in the country has opened a room for regional
parties to have their say where regional aspirations have to be met. Touching
upon assertive regionalism, he said, "the most recent example of assertion
is by DMK, and last year we saw the TMC. But even in the times of NDA--we were
a member of that coalition then." Omar said in the era of coalition
politics, regional parties who have greater numbers in Parliament and who are
part of the ruling coalition definitely get an opportunity to have a say in
decisions at the national level.
Speaking
at the Mindmine Summit 2013 here, Omar said the coalition politics allows
regional parties to have a say in the national level decision making but
sometimes it is disproportionate. "But some times it is disproportionate.
Regional aspirations should generally bow to national aspirations," he
said in an apparent reference to the action by DMK, which quit the ruling UPA
over the Centre's stand on the Sri Lankan Tamils issue.
"Everybody
knows Chandrababu Naidu of TDP pulled a lot of weight. If he sneezed, Delhi would catch a cold.
So much so, that he was dictating appointments of top bureaucrats," Omar
said. The Chief Minister said India
is really a conglomerate of states and has never been one homogeneous society
which needed to be recognised and embraced.
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