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| BJP may betray Jammu yet again | | Speaking Hurriyat language | |
Early Times Report
jammu, Aug 20: Not content with what it had been doing to the people of Jammu region after March 1 to appease its Kashmiri masters, the BJP has, it seems, decided to seal their fate by according a dangerous respectability to the Hurriyat Conferences, Pakistani mouthpieces in the Kashmir Valley. The feeling that the BJP might throw in the lot of the people of Jammu region with the Kashmiri separatists stems from what they in the aftermath of the Pakistani invite to Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Yasin Malik, Shabir Ahmad Shah, Nayeem Khan and many others to visit Delhi and hold talks with the visiting Pakistani National Security Advisor Sartaj Aziz. The defeated National Conference, which constitutes the main opposition in the Assembly, also took the line the Hurriyat and BJP took.
Both the Hurriyat leaders and the BJP sung the same song: Talks with Pakistan were imperative; there was no alternative to dialogue; the vested interests were creating hype to scuttle the upcoming talks between India and Pakistan; and there was no point in blowing things out of proportion. The Hurriyat leaders, in addition, said that India and Pakistan needed to evolve some definite mechanism that involves the Kashmiri Muslims in the dialogue process so that the so-called Kashmir issue was resolved as per the wishes of all the stakeholders. Besides, they urged the Indian media and parties like the Congress not to make mountains out of molehills and support the Indian initiative on talks with Pakistan.
"Kashmir is an age-old humanitarian issue. It needs a resolution at the earliest and it will help to restore peace in the region and Central Asia as well as South Asia. Indian media and Indian political parties should give support to the BJP's initiative," said Mirwaiz while talking to reporters in Srinagar after he received the invite from Pakistan High Commission. He also confirmed that he would visit Delhi on August 23 and meet with Pakistani leaders, including Sartaj Aziz, who has made it loud and clear that he would raise the Kashmir issue and the issues connected with it during his meeting with his Indian counterpart Ajit Doval.
As expected, not a single BJP leader either in the State or at the Centre countered the Hurriyat's stand that Jammu & Kashmir was a disputed territory and the Kashmiri Muslims were a party to the Kashmir dispute. On the contrary, all the BJP leaders from the State and at the Centre virtually toed the Hurriyat line and vouched for a meaningful dialogue with Pakistan as if the Indian presence in Jammu & Kashmir was illegal and unlawful. Besides, not a single BJP leader talked about the aspirations, needs and compulsions of the people of Jammu region and trans-Himalayan Ladakh. Nor did any of the BJP leaders, who spoke on Wednesday, say that the real issue which still remained unresolved between India and Pakistan was the undetermined political future of Gilgit and Baltistan and Pakistan-occupied-Jammu & Kashmir. Their focus was only on Jammu & Kashmir, barring Gilgit-Baltistan and PoJK, Pakistan and talks with Pakistan.
That the BJP leaders conducted themselves in the manner the Hurriyat, the NC and other Kashmiri parties conducted only suggested that the BJP-under-influence of certain enemy nations could barter the people of Jammu region and Ladakh in its desperate bid to cultivate Pakistan by recognizing the self-styled freedom fighters in Kashmir as the chief determinants or as the chief factors in the State's political situation. It's no wonder then that the concerned people of Jammu region have come to believe that the BJP might betray them yet again" and that "if things continue to remain the same as they are today, those who could afford might migrate from the region to other parts of India like the Kashmiri Hindus did in early 1990".
However, the only silver-lining was that at a time when the BJP, the Hurriyat, the NC and other Kashmiri parties were vouching for a dialogue with Pakistan and conducting themselves like the Pakistani spokespersons, a number of Congress leaders and many opinion leaders lambasted the BJP in general and Prime Minister Narendra Modi in particular and said that the BJP-led NDA Government had no roadmap for dealing with Pakistan, which had unleashed a reign of senseless brutalities in Jammu & Kashmir and elsewhere in the country. The point is that the nationalist camp in Jammu & Kashmir now sees in sections of the Indian media, and even the parties like the Congress a ray of hope. One thing is very clear: The conduct of the BJP has created a sense of insecurity among the patriotic sections of society in Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh. |
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