news details |
|
|
| Kashmir didn't trust BJP in and before 2014 | | PM Modi's Iftaar politics? | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, July 9: Surely, PM Modi is visiting Jammu on July 17. Reports emanating from New Delhi suggest. He would be in Jammu that day to attend a function to mark the 100th birth anniversary of Girdhari Lal Dogra, Congress leader and father-in-law of Finance and Information and Broadcasting Minister Arun Jaitley. There are also some unconfirmed reports that PM Modi could also visit Kashmir the same day or a day after and host an Iftaar party.
As for the national BJP leadership, it has dismissed the reports that PM Modi had planned to visit Kashmir. Rubbishing the reports, BJP national secretary Shrikant Sharma on Wednesday said the Prime Minister never had any plan to visit Srinagar that day. "This news of Modi going to Kashmir for Eid is false and there is no such programme," he said.
The issue has already creating a political controversy. "PM Narendra Modi has no plans to host Iftaar in Srinagar," tweeted former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah. His tweet was as significant as it was politically-motivated and designed to embarrass Chief Minister Mufti Sayeed. The state government's political analyst and former PDP spokesperson Waheed-ur-Rehman Parra has welcomed the unconfirmed reports on PM Modi's Kashmir visit and said that if, it happened, it would be a politically very significant visit.
However, like Omar Abdullah, a number of Delhi-based senior Muslim politicians from different "secular" parties, including the Congress, the Nationalist Congress Party and Janata dal (United), have questioned the intentions of PM Modi. They have said that it would matter little even if PM Modi visited Kashmir, as they knew what Modi stands for and his ideology. "His visit to Kashmir on the eve of Eid and the report that he could host an Iftaar party there will not change the attitude of secular Muslims towards PM Modi," they have said.
In any case, even if PM Modi visited Kashmir on the eve of Eid and hosted an Iftaar party, it will not help the BJP establish a foothold in the Valley or create its constituency in the Valley. The Kashmiri Muslims didn't vote for the BJP in the 2014 assembly elections despite the hectic, intense and very expensive election campaign the BJP unleashed in the Valley to open its account. Even the election rally that was addressed by PM Modi in Srinagar didn't help the BJP win a single seat from the restive Valley. The fact is that all the BJP candidates, barring one, forfeited their security deposit and one of them was Hina Bhat, who had threatened to pick up gun in case the BJP leadership raked up the issue of Article 370 during the election campaign. Her defeat established many things. Interestingly, all the Kashmiri parties and all the Kashmiri separatists had contributed to the humiliating defeat of the BJP candidates. Syed Ali Shah Geelani, who hitherto used to give poll boycott calls, in 2014 urged the Kashmiri Muslims to come out in large numbers and ensure the defeat of the BJP candidates. They, including Omar Abdullah and Syed Ali Shah Geelani, had all declared that the Kashmiri movement would suffer hugely in case the BJP won a single seat from the Valley.
The point is that visit of PM Modi or no visit, the BJP would always remain untouchable in Kashmir, notwithstanding the claims of the BJP leadership to the contrary for political reasons. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
| |
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
STOCK UPDATE |
|
|
 |
| BSE
Sensex |
 |
| NSE
Nifty |
|
|
| |
CRICKET UPDATE |
|
|
|
|
| |
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
