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| What is left in J&K for Ram Madhav to coordinate? | | Status of BJP | | Early Times Report
Jammu, July 8: BJP national president Amit Shah, who has been heading the party-under-severe-attack across the country for almost one year now, is blissfully ignorant about Jammu & Kashmir, the PDP-BJP Agenda of Alliance, and even about the status of his own party in the Jammu & Kashmir Government. Or, BJP national general secretary Ram Madhav, who, along with PDP leaders, formulated the agenda of alliance in the last week of February, and others of his ilk like prabhari of the state unit of the BJP Avinash Rai Khanna and state BJP president and MP Lok Sabha Jugal Kishore Sharma have been keeping Amit Shah in the dark by hiding the truth. Amit Shah on Monday appointed Ram Madhav as party's coordinator with the PDP-BJP coalition government.
Had Amit Shah been fully aware of the status of the BJP in the state government or had he understood the agenda of alliance and what the PDP got from the BJP during the negotiations on the formation of the coalition government in the state, he would not have appointed Ram Madhav as coordinator whose duty it would be to coordinate with the state government.
What will Madhav coordinate? There is nothing left in the state for the party which he could take up with the state government. The powers of the PDP have been clearly defined by the agenda of alliance. It has allowed the PDP to act independently even on matters relating to national security and the country's territorial integrity. Besides, it has declared the PDP as master of the situation in the state and chief determinant. He cannot interfere in the matters which fell within the domain of the PDP because interference in the affairs under the PDP would mean violation of coalition dharma. Interference could lead to the fall of the coalition government, something the BJP ministers in Jammu would never like for obvious reasons. The BJP ministers want the state government to complete a full term of six years because they know that they would now never make it to the Assembly.
At the most, Ram Madhav could help the PDP implement those parts of the agenda of alliance which are being looked down upon and despised by the people in Jammu region as well as Ladakh, besides the internally-displaced Kashmiri Hindus. He could help the Kashmiri party restore Article 370 to its original position, get AFSPA and Army withdrawn from the state and get transferred to the state government certain NHPC-run, managed and controlled power projects.
But, again, his problem would be that all these issues are of great national import. Even if the BJP high command and the Narendra Modi Government, which has been trying its level best to step into the shoes of the secular Congress party, wish to help Ram Madhav implement the controversial parts of the agenda of alliance, the nation will not allow them to unsettle the settled in Jammu & Kashmir. In fact, the Ram Madhav & Co is already under severe attack with former RSS ideologue Govindacharya and senior BJP leaders like Subramanian Swami attacking the agenda of alliance and opining that the BJP will have pay a very heavy price in the country for the political blunder it committed in Jammu & Kashmir.
Besides, the people of Jammu region and Ladakh and internally-displaced Kashmiri Hindus are there in the state who would oppose tooth and nail any move on the part of Ram Madhav to weaken the Indian position in Jammu & Kashmir. They are already on the warpath. They are demanding not only setting up of the sanctioned AIIMS in Jammu, completion of artificial lake project over river Tawi in Jammu and proper representation in the government and the assembly, but also waging an ideological war against separatists in Kashmir, saying their merger with India is final and irrevocable and that they hate such pernicious concepts as greater autonomy.
The only role that Ram Madhav & Co could play in Jammu & Kashmir is the role of second-fiddle. It is obvious that Ram Madhav would further become unpopular not only in the very vast nationalist camp in Jammu & Kashmir but across the country where his concept of "pragmatism" is being roundly condemned. |
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