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| Jammu all set for another massive bandh | | BJP fails its constituency | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, May 17: No one had ever expected that the BJP, which in 2014 won three Lok Sabha seats in Jammu and Ladakh and captured 25 out of 37 Assembly seats from Jammu and emerged as the single largest party in terms of popular votes in both the elections, would become so unpopular so soon. Today, it is condemned by one and all. No BJP leader and Minister can face the people of Jammu. Such is the situation in Jammu province.
It was on April 24 that the entire Jammu province observed a massive bandh against the BJP and it was the first ever Jammu shutdown against the BJP. The people, cutting across party lines, the Jammu youth, the lawyers' organization, the business community, transport unions and who not made the bandh a massive affair and the issue that had provoked them to take an extreme step was the BJP's willful onslaught on their region. The BJP handed over the proposed AIIMS to Kashmir overlooking the Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's Lok Sabha announcement that AIIMS will be established in Jammu. Ram Madhav, BJP national general secretary and one of the architects of the pernicious and anti-national agenda of alliance, was also a party to this out and out anti-Jammu decision. The action of the BJP shocked the entire population of the province, but not the BJP leaders like Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh, who that not only shamelessly said that there was no bandh in Jammu on April 24, but also abused the people of Jammu province by declaring that no power on earth could "snatch AIIMS from Kashmir and it will not be established in Jammu". Nirmal Singh only rubbed salt on the wounds of the people of Jammu to make his Kashmiri masters believe that they have in the BJP ministers their agents, cronies and lackeys in Jammu and that they will always promote the Kashmiri cause at the cost of Jammu and the country as a whole.
The people of Jammu province are all set to observe another massive bandh to expose the anti-Jammu BJP. It could be on any day, as the provocation is grave and the issues very dear to them. On Monday, the premier organization of lawyers, J&K High Court Bar association will strike work for a day. On Saturday, the National Panthers Party made a passionate appeal to the people across Jammu province to come on one platform to teach a lesson to the Jaichands of Jammu and ensure that the proposed AIIMS was established in Jammu and the ongoing artificial lake was completed at whatever cost. On Saturday, another significant development took place. The Congress and a number of other organizations demanded resignation of Nirmal Singh, saying he and the BJP more than the PDP or other Kashmiri parties are responsible for what the Chief Minister said in Jammu against Jammu in the his presence as well as in the presence of another BJP minister. Significantly, even the Jammu-based NC leaders have jumped into the pro-Jammu arena and demanded AIIMS for Jammu and the completion of the ongoing artificial lake project in Jammu' Tawi, also Surya Putri. They said their government started the project and they will not allow the government to shelve it midway.
Reports suggest that the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Warehouse organization, lawyers and other important political and social groups would soon meet to discuss the situation arising out of May 15 declarations of the Chief Minister and chalk out programme to defeat the anti-Jammu forces in general and the BJP, which has subverted the Jammu's mandate by signing an anti-Jammu, pro-Pakistan and pro-Hurriyat deal, in particular. Their first action could be a bandh across Jammu province. All of them are blaming Nirmal Singh and his ilk for what is being done to Jammu to promote the Kashmiri interests. They have also not taken kindly to the U-turn of MoS in PMO Jitendra Singh on the issue of AIIMS. At Kathua some two weeks ago, he had taken on and contradicted Nirmal Singh and said that the "AIIMS was always meant for Jammu", but in Jammu, two days ago, he didn't say that. He remained vague. Perhaps, he had been snubbed by the party high command for his Kathua statement, which was, according to sources close to Nirmal Singh, "not appreciated by Nirmal Singh".
All these development demonstrate that things in Jammu would assume alarming proportions. And the BJP is itself responsible for the prevailing discontent in Jammu. |
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