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| 'Sell out' in J&K described by Shah as a tribute to Mookerjee | | Bengaluru BJP meet | | Early Times Report
bengaluru, Apr 4: Terming the victory of the BJP in Jammu and Kashmir in the last assembly elections as another "feather in the cap" of the party, BJP national president Amit Shah said that "it should be viewed as a humble tribute to the martyrdom of Jana Sangh's founding president Shyama Prasad Mookerjee". He made this statement while delivering his presidential address at the party's national executive meet at Bengaluru on Friday. According to him the victory of the BJP in Jammu and Kashmir was "much more than the victories scored in the States like Maharashtra, Haryana and Jharkand".
The BJP had won 25 seats in the 87-member house and all these were from Jammu region. It failed to open its account in the Valley, which elects 46 members to the Assembly, despite the fact that the party invested so much in Kashmir in terms of money and other things needed to register victories. In Ladakh also, the electorate rejected the BJP and its failure to win even one out of the four seats in the region could be considered its humiliating defeat when viewed in the light of the fact that just six months before it had won the lone Ladakh Lok Sabha seat. It was for the first time in its electoral history that the BJP won the Lok Sabha seat in Ladakh.
It is pertinent to mention here that whole in the Lok Sabha election, the BJP had secured more than 32 per cent of the total votes polled in Jammu and Kashmir, in the assembly election its vote tally was just 22 per cent. In other words, one-third of the voters who had voted for the BJP in the Lok Sabha elections rejected the BJP and voted for the parties against whom they had voted during the Lok Sabha elections. People turned against the BJP because it had given up its ideology to win a seat or two in the Valley that was not to happen considering the nature of attitude of the Kashmiri Muslims towards the BJP. The BJP wanted to win a couple of seats in the Valley at the cost of its ideology but in the process it lost the election in Ladakh and also lost election in Jammu in at least four assembly constituencies.
Amit Shah made a special reference to the victory of its candidates in Jammu and Kashmir in the assembly elections and said the party "had derived 'special pride' in Jammu and Kashmir and joining the coalition in that state for the first time after Independence". He took on the opponents who were "mislead the people on this development" and asserted that "one must realize that this is the dawn of a new era for all inclusive development in the State". He also took the opportunity to assure the people that "through the executive the coalition will strengthen nationalist forces, the unity and integrity of the country". "For the BJP, the security and integrity of the country is more valuable than the government or positions of power," he also said.
What he said and boasted of was not consistent with what was contained in the "agenda of Alliance". The "Agenda of Alliance" is essentially Kashmir-centric as it breaks the 67-year-old status quo and contemplates trilateral talks between India, Pakistan and Hurriyat Conference. Its emphasis on "national reconciliation" and it focus on dialogue between "all stakeholders" only vindicated those who all along expressed the view that Jammu and Kashmir was an unsettled issue and the involvement of Pakistan and separatists in Kashmir was essential for breaking the deadlock over the state. The fact of the matter is that those who negotiated the power-sharing formula only undid all that Shyama Prasad Mookerjee had done in Jammu and Kashmir in 1953 to integrate the state with India and, hence, participation of the BJP in the coalition government in Jammu and Kashmir cannot be described as a tribute to the martyrdom of Shyama Prasad Mookerjee. In fact, those who struck the deal after two months of negotiations only negated all that Shyama Prasad Mookerjee did at the cost of his own life.
Amit Shah says the participation of the BJP in the coalition government in the state means the "dawn of a new era for all inclusive development in the state". It could be for Kashmir. As far Jammu region is concerned, there is nothing concrete in the "Agenda of Alliance". One-third representation of the BJP in the all-powerful Cabinet; its agreement to get for the BJP not a single crucial portfolio; and the fact that the BJP has little or no say in the governance of the state all prove Amit Shah wrong. It would not be out of place to mention here that the general view in Jammu region is that "the BJP has sold out everything for some loaves and fishes of office"; that "it has cheated the West Pakistan refugees, refugees from POJK and displaced Kashmiri Pandits"; and that "it has caused an irreparable damage to the national interest in Jammu and Kashmir".
It appears the BJP national president Amit Shah and Prime Minister Narendra Modi do know what they are doing to Jammu and Kashmir. |
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