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| BJP’s 2014 vision document for J&K under fire | | Integration and empowerment | | Neha
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Jan 30: The BJP contested the last assembly elections in J&K not on the basis of an election manifesto but on the planks as listed in its Vision Document. It won 25 seats and created a history in the sense that its performance in the earlier assembly elections in the state was never inspiring for it and its cadres and supporters. It best record was in 2008, when it won 11 seats. In 1996, the BJP for the first time had won 8 seats. It is obvious that its vision document clicked in Jammu province.
As for Kashmir, the anti-BJP forces in the Valley had rejected this document as anti-Kashmir, pro-Jammu and pro-Hindu. Even the other day, a similar opinion was expressed against the BJP’s Vision Document. “The BJP’s Vision Document totally lacks vision. Its concerns are blatantly communal,” the anti-BJP elements said.
What was communal in the BJP’s Vision Document? What made these anti-BJP and anti-minority community elements dub the BJP’s Vision Document communal? They dubbed the BJP’s Vision Document communal on several counts. One, it talks about the rehabilitation of the internally-displaced Kashmiri Hindus in the Kashmir Valley. Two, it talks about the West Pakistan refugees and holds out a promise that the BJP, if voted to power in the state, will grant permanent residency status to them, as also grant them the right to vote in the assembly and local-bodies’ elections. Three, it promises three reserved seats out of the Valley’s 46 seats for the persecuted and internally-displaced Kashmiri Hindus. Four, it promises five reserved seats out of the 24 earmarked for the Pakistan-occupied-Jammu & Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan for the refugees from PoJK, also called Displaced Persons (DPs). Five, it talks about Dogra certificate. The BJP, if voted to power, will reverse the decision of the NC-Congress coalition government and ask the designated revenue officers to issue Dogra certificates to young boys who wished to join the paramilitary forces like the CRPF.
There is nothing whatever that is communal in the Vision Document. It only talks about the persecuted minority community, which migrated to Jammu from West Pakistan and PoJK in 1947 to escape the wrath of the fundamentalists and extremists and radical Islamists and the Kashmiri Hindu community which migrated to Jammu and other parts of the country in 1990 for the same reasons. These are people who have been leading the life of third grade citizens in the state since decades now. The BJP did not commit any crime by reassuring these persecuted and neglected sections of the society that they would be empowered if it came into power. The BJP, in fact, rose to the occasion by holding out such assurances and upholding their human rights.
What is it that is going in the state? Jammu & Kashmir is part of democratic polity. All the sections of the society have the right to lead a dignified life. The refugees from West Pakistan, the refugees from PoJK and refuges from the Kashmir Valley are also integral part of the Indian State. They, like all other sections, deserve all rights, including the right to have their own representatives in the assembly which discusses and decides questions of supreme importance to the well-being and happiness of the people. When will the regressive forces see reason and behave like good human beings? |
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