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| 'Issueless' BJP wants to hoist tricolor at Lal Chowk | | | Fazal Khan
Early Times Report
srinagar, July 21: As the pressure is mounting on BJP leaders in Jammu and Kashmir to perform, the party leaders have decided to divert the attention from the real issues at least for time being by raking up the issue of hoisting national flag-tricolor-at Lal Chowk in Srinagar on the occasion of the Independence Day on August 15.
Sources told Early Times that BJP leaders have written to the party president Amit Shah to seek his permission to hoist the tricolour in city centre here on August 15 to "give a befitting reply to anti-national forces" whose activities have increased in Kashmir.
In coming days BJP leaders in JK are going to launch campaign to seek support for hoisting tricolor at Lal Chowk, said a source.
An insider said the idea to hoist tricolor at Lal Chowk was mooted by a few BJP leaders, who believe that party is fast losing its credibility in JK. "Poor performance of the BJP ministers and party failing to fulfill its promise of getting AIIMS sanctioned for Jammu region has put the party in a tight spot," the insider added.
A critic while talking to Early Times said: "There is no harm in hoisting tricolor but I believe the move is aimed at diverting attention from the real issues. During the past four months BJP has lost the ground in the state and its image has taken a hit."
Sources said that a few BJP leaders had asked the national executive member of BJP's ST Morcha, Ishfaq Rehman Poswal to meet the party president Amit Shah and seek permission from him to go ahead with the plan.
Poswal in a statement issued on Tuesday said: "The anti-national forces which have been raising pro-Pakistan slogans and hoisting its flag will also get a befitting reply with the hoisting of the national tricolour in heart of Srinagar."
He (Poswal) said that he told Shah that hoisting the flag on August 15 would boost nationalist forces in Kashmir.
An analyst said: "I fail to understand that why senior BJP leaders are shying away from hoisting the national flag on their own. Instead of Poswal they (senior leaders of the party) could have taken the initiative. We don't need anyone's permission to hoist national flag in any part of the country."
"By sending Poswal to the party president Amit Shah they (BJP leaders) want to derive political mileage out of the move. If they (BJP leaders) really want to give a befitting reply to anti-national forces, they should not wait for August 15, they can choose any day and hoist the tricolor in Lal Chowk ," the analyst added.
He claimed that there are reports about BJP ministers have been given ultimatum to perform and the high command is not happy with them. "BJP ministers are looking for a breathing space and to rake up the issue of hoisting the tricolor is meant at buying time so that they can devise the future strategy," he said.
A critic said that BJP ministers have failed to establish their writ and have been acting as second fiddles in the PDP-BJP coalition. "High command is not happy with the performance of the BJP ministers and if they don't live upto the expectations of the party high command there is every possibility of them (ministers) being sacked in near future and others being given a chance," the critic added. |
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