Leaderless Jammu

Self-determination of a person is the only way in which a person may acquire  leadership as a quality in himself or herself. This quality may be visible whether in ruling, thinking, imagining, innovation or religious influencing. It depicts the personality of a human being. Human personality is very complex and leadership skills may depend on experience, skill, responsibility, intelligence, power of organizing people and social interaction. Leadership is the method by which a leader directs, guides and influences the work of others in order to attain any goals so that both may obtain maximum satisfaction. A leader needs to be mentally strong and firm in decisions. We can also say that a person who can satisfy the basic psychological needs of his followers can also be an effective leader.

However, when we try to find all these qualities in the persons who call themselves to be the leader of Jammu, then we see that all of them fall short of the above mentioned criteria. There are many people who are ruling but still all of them fail to possess these abilities. There are some who have certain thinking ability in them but that thinking is used by them only for issues which revolve around them or are directly concerned to them. We also see some leaders in Jammu who have good imagination regarding certain issues which can bring positive change in Jammu’s political circle. But sadly, these imaginations remain to their thoughts only. Also many others here in Jammu seem to have innovative qualities but they are using that innovation only to make their presence felt in one way or other in every public function. Those leaders who have religious backing and show to be protectors of that particular religion have also now failed as they got the things they wanted, by showing their religious bent of mind.

There are also so called leaders in Jammu, who have a lot of experience and skill but they are utilizing all of it for their own personal benefits. Nobody wants to serve the masses because of which they have their identity. Responsibility towards the Jammu people is also lacking in all these leaders, as they have whenever the time demanded failed to be responsible on any sensitive issue which disturbed this part of the state. Power of organizing people for a genuine cause is somewhere forgotten by these leaders because they feel now it’s more important to have money power because it attracts the masses in large numbers towards them. Social interaction is forgotten by all, either he is the one who has won with a narrow margin or who has become Ministers. The reason for this is that their priorities change for a period of 6 years and they think that till next elections nobody can now dismantle their fort.

Jammu is in a sense truly leaderless because we see all those who are in power don’t want to now serve the society. They all have started directing, guiding and influencing only their workers who tell them how much of there will be kept in the work, if they get it done. A good leader should always be impartial towards all his followers, because the moment he becomes partial, he no longer remains a leader as he loses the confidence of others. Similar is the story of those Jammu leaders who are not in power. This class of leaders are just trying to adopt the means with which they may get the power and hopefully they will also start behaving in the way the present political rulers are ruling the state. It somewhere reflects the trend which has nowadays started in the political circles. All people in the political circles are now only power hungry and nobody wants to serve the society in true sense. They all are now unwilling to render social service to the people of Jammu. Somewhere a sense of selfishness has gained a lot of place in the lives of these so called leaders.It is not that Jammu is short of any political party. Infact, what is surprising is that all the parties have their bodies in Jammu, whether they are national parties or the regional parties ruling in any one particular region of J&K or representing any small area of the state. What is more interesting is that, all of these political parties claim to be the true party which works for Jammu’s cause. There this claim is irrespective of the number of seats they have from Jammu. There have been many social or political issues which arose till today in Jammu. However, these parties backed out of them because of one or the other reason by citing their political ideological differences. When one party backed out of one particular issue, the other got a chance to speak on that issue. Next time, some other issue arises and the party which tried to become the face of Jammu in the last problem, now kept silent. This in result gave a chance to some other party, which now did so much effort that it tried to ensure that people forget its past activities and try to  accept them as the true representative of Jammu people.

This has been the political scenario in Jammu for a long time. Here the problems are several but none is ready to work on it unless it gets them some political mileage. Time has changed and so should we. We should change our approach towards these leaders. Our effort should be to try to make this system change by first making these leaders realize that the true power lies in the hands of the people. We should ensure that the non performing leader should never get a chance to be the representative of the people again. We should try to see whether the people are in real getting the help they need from these leaders. All of us should understand that we don’t have to accept the person to be the leader of Jammu who is mostly visible in the media. How is his or her appearance in the media a judging factor for their performance? The true performance of the leaders working can be visible when they speak fearlessly on the issues relating to people and fight for their cause. These leaders need to work together for Jammu by forgetting their political ideologies. So the first step, to be adopted for achieving all this is to begin with the technique of motivating yourself. The future and security of Jammu lies in our own hands. We should see that we keep this thing always present in our hearts and minds. Never try to behave like cowards, who at the time of facing problems or troubles in their life try to blame others and in turn can never succeed in their life. All we need is an optimistic approach and the day is not far when we may see some true leaders who would somewhere try to change the whole political system in our state.