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| Desperate Cong, NC fishing in troubled waters in Jammu | | Struggle for AIIMS | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, July 18: The Congress and the NC, which suffered massive defeats in Jammu region in the 2014 Lok Sabha and Assembly elections because of their acts of omission and commission, have been fishing in the troubled waters in the region, which has been up in arms against the BJP since March 2015. The leadership of both the parties are leaving no stone unturned to further embarrass the already at the receiving end and embarrassed BJP leadership by overtly and covertly supporting the ongoing movement in Jammu province for the setting up of All-India Institute of Medical Sciences.
It's a fact that both the parties, which have been struggling hard to regain the political space they lost to the BJP, have also been endorsing the Kashmiri view that the Valley needed an AIIMS. But it it's also a fact that both the parties have been from day one supporting the demand in Jammu for the establishment of AIIMS. In fact, both the parties supported the bandh calls given by the AIIMS Coordination Committee (ACC) and ensured in their own way that the shutdowns were a massive affair. Of Course, the leadership of the two parties is working behind the curtain, but as far as the cadres of these two parties are concerned, they are quite visible in the activities organized by the ACC. That's the reason the frightened and perturbed BJP leadership has on occasions more than one said that the ongoing movement in Jammu is the brainchild of the "defeated Congress and the National Conference", which is not a fact.
The ACC is a non-political formation consisting of almost 130 social and religious organizations, besides such powerful bodies as the Jammu & Kashmir High Court Bar Association, Jammu, Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Transport organizations and several other prominent civil society groups. Significantly, the ACC has been equally critical of the Congress and the National Conference and has repeatedly expressed the view that they, when in power, never did justice to their constituencies in Jammu region. It is, of course, true that the ACC has been more critical of the BJP and has repeatedly said that the "BJP betrayed Jammu region more than other political parties" and that "it has caused an irreparable damage to the Jammu cause by surrendering everything to Kashmir".
All this has given enough of ammunition to the otherwise unpopular Congress and the NC and the result has been that both the parties have unleashed a no-holds-barred campaign against the BJP. And, why not? After all, the Congress and the NC are not in power. They are political parties and the political parties always exploit the weaknesses, unpopularity and failures of their political rivals. It is for the BJP to take effective and popular steps to defeat its rivals and the best way to do so is to fulfill at the earliest all the promises it made to the people during the election campaign and through its vision document. The ACC only hits the nail on the head when it asserts that "the BJP will become a story of the past in case it continued to pursue the Kashmir-centric line". |
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