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PDP-BJP can't have a different stand on J&K: Hari Om 8/12/2015 11:59:08 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Aug 12: Taking a serious exception to the Education Minister and J&K Government spokesperson Naeem Akhtar's unsettling and provocative statement that "Pakistan has its own point of view, India has its own point of view and the state government has its point of view on the Kashmir issue", columnist and former Dean of Jammu University's Faculty of Social Sciences and Member of Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR) Prof Hari Om today urged the BJP to clear its stand on the political status of Jammu & Kashmir State. "What Naeem Akhtar has said is the official view of the PDP-BJP coalition government on the political status of Jammu & Kashmir. The BJP is the second constituent of the state government. The BJP should tell the people of the state in general and Jammu region and Ladakh in particular if it endorsed what the state government's spokesperson said about Pakistan and India and its Jammu & Kashmir," Prof Om said, and added that a clarification on its part has become absolutely necessary as the statement of Naeem Akhtar has alarmed the very vast nationalist camp in the state. Prof Om further said that the stoic silence of the BJP over the highly disturbing statement of Naeem Akhtar has created serious doubts in the minds of the people about the very approach of the party towards Jammu & Kashmir which sought and got a massive mandate from Jammu region on the nationalistic, pro-Jammu, pro-minorities and pro-refugee planks. Its silence has not enhanced the confidence of the people of Jammu region in the BJP, he said. The BJP just cannot throw in the lot of these sections of society with the PDP which considers Jammu & Kashmir a political entity virtually independent of the Indian nation, he further said, adding that the people of Jammu region had voted for the BJP not for jeopardizing their legitimate social, economic and political interests as well as the paramount national interest in the sensitive border state, but for accelerating the process of the state's complete constitutional, political and financial integration into India and for their empowerment so that they enjoyed equal political status with Kashmir in the state and have a fair share and effective say in the governance of the state. The former Dean reminded the BJP that it all through vouched for a regime in the state that would bring it closer to New Delhi than ever before and empower all the neglected regions and marginalized sections of society and bemoaned that what has happened in the state during the past more than five months has only disappointed all those who voted with a great enthusiasm and in large numbers for the BJP. "The situation in the state has deteriorated to the extent that the concerned people have started saying that the prevailing situation in Kashmir is worse than what it was in early 1990s, when the miniscule minority of Kashmiri Hindus quit their homes and hearths to become refugees in their own motherland. The people of Jammu region, who are seething with anger because of their little or no presence in the state government, have come to believe that their very survival in the state is at stake. What has caused a sense of insecurity among them all the more is the statement of Naeem Akhtar that Jammu & Kashmir Government's view on the state is different from that of New Delhi," Prof Om said, and added that it is the fundamental duty of the BJP as the elected representative of people of Jammu region to allay all of their fears and apprehensions. He expressed the view that the BJP would reprimand the PDP for its dubious stand on Jammu & Kashmir and not watch as a mute spectator the PDP's undesirable activities, including its very soft approach towards the anti-national activities being organized by Pakistan and its Kashmir-based agents in Kashmir. The BJP has everything to gain and nothing to lose by following a courageous policy, he said.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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