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| BJP's "Mission Power" accomplished, not to unfurl Tricolour at Lal Chowk today | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Aug 14: BJP, which would create a hype to unfurl the Tricolour at Lal Chowk in Srinagar every year on the eve of Independence Day and Republic Day, is silent this time even as it is now in power in J&K. All its cadres and "big-wigs" have maintained a complete silence on the issue. Reason: Its "Mission Power" is accomplished and intended political goal is achieved in J&K. It feels it needs not to agitate on such issues anymore because it has got the desired dividends. It seems to have become contented with the 25 seats which Jammu gifted it in the 2014 state polls.
This speaks of the Saffron Brigade's double standards. On earlier occasions, the party was not in power and always faced difficulties to reach Srinagar but the situation was altogether in its favour now. It is part of the government and has an "obedient" deputy chief minister and some outspoken ministers but none of them had till today issued a public statement for unfurling the National Flag at the historic Lal Chowk.
On January 23, 2011, senior BJP leader L K Advani had accused then prime minister Manmohan Singh and the Omar Abdullah government of "surrendering" to separatists and displaying a "disproportionate and panic reaction". BJP was "not trying to score a political point" but was instead challenging the separatists who had vowed to block the party's plan to hoist the tricolour. And the state is surrendering to them, he had said, adding, "If the rationale for prohibitory orders is apprehension of breach of peace, curbs should be targeted towards those who have declared that they will not let the Tricolour be put up at Lal Chowk."
Has Advani anything to say now on the today's BJP at the Centre and in the state? The party was in opposition at both the places in 2011 but in 2015, it is in power at both these places. In view of this, shouldn't it have taken a suo-moto decision to unfurl the Tricolour at Lal Chowk? And, in the absence of any public statement by the party high command in this context, shouldn't it be construed now that the BJP too had surrendered to the valley separatists?
The BJP's silence now hints that creating the annual hype on the two important dates of August 15 and January 26 was the part of its strategy to score political points. Had it not been so, it would have stuck to its old stance of unfurling the National Flag at Lal Chowk.
Arun Jaitley, now union finance minister, had then reacted sharpely, saying, "The government has arrested members of Bharatiya Janta Yuva Morcha. They have sealed all border points in Jammu and Kashmir to prevent their entry. This is unacceptable and undemocratic."
But BJP is part of the J&K government now and in view of this, there can obviously be no sealing of the state borders this time. Then what is stopping the BJP cadres to move to Srinagar and unfurl the Tricolour there at Lal Chowk?
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