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| MP Karra wants PDP to sever ties with BJP | | Beef row fallout | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Oct 11: PDP MP and former Finance Minister Tariq Hameed Karra on Saturday virtually urged his party command to review its ties with the BJP and suggested that it would be appropriate if the PDP severs ties with the BJP, which is part of Sangh Parivar.
"The BJP and its allies in Sangh Parivar should understand that choosing Jammu & Kashmir as a turf for playing perilous games for electoral gains in Bihar would have disastrous consequences as Jammu & Kashmir is a sensitive state and any fresh trouble in the area would have huge diplomatic implications," Karra said, adding that "the elements trying to foment communal trouble in Jammu region, should realize that they will be causing immense harm to the economic interests of the Jammu region by their diabolic actions". "By trying to choke supply lines to Kashmir, the Sangh Parivar will be responsible for countermining the economy of Jammu region, which is predominantly dependent on Kashmir's huge consumer market," he further said. He also added that "such disturbing acts could also fuel a wave of backlash in Kashmir, which is struggling to cope up with the tragedies of turmoil and uncertainty".
Karra, who is a known critic of the PDP-BJP alliance, made these comments in the wake of the Friday night's attack on Kashmiri truck drivers in Udhampur, and said that "consequences of an economic blockade to the Valley could be dangerous for Jammu". "Take stern action against the radical Hindutva elements who are hell bent upon vitiating the atmosphere in the State for vested political interests," he said and asked the State Government to book the people responsible for the Udhampur attack under Public Safety Act and other anti-terror laws. He emphasized that the "petrol bomb attack on unsuspecting truckers was an act of terrorism and the persons responsible for it should be booked under the anti-terrorism law".
The PDP MP didn't condemn MLA Er Rashid who had hosted beef party in Srinagar to hurt the religious feelings of the Hindus across the country. Nor did he speak a word on the circumstances under which parts of Udhampur observed bandh on Thursday and Jammu city and the surrounding areas observed bandh on Saturday. He had no regards whatsoever for the sentiments of the Hindu community. His only target was the BJP and the Sangh Parivar, notwithstanding the fact that the BJP gave unstinted support to the PDP on the beef issue. So much so, to appease the votaries of cow slaughter and beef eating, the Sangh Parivar allowed the PDP-controlled Law Ministry to fire Additional Advocate General and Deputy Advocate General, both RSS-BJP activists. Not just this, the BJP allowed the State Government to reject its own private members' bills seeking capital punishment for those found guilty of cow slaughter, sale of beef and beef consumption and accept for discussion the opposition's private members' bills seeking revocation of all the laws under which cow slaughter and beef eating was banned decades ago. Karra should have hailed the BJP for its dubious stand on the beef issue, but he chose otherwise for obvious reasons. He wants the PDP to have tie-up with "secular" parties and by secular parties he means the NC and the Congress.
Earlier on June 18 as well, Karra had also urged the party leadership to "rethink its relations" with the BJP if the Government of India continued with same prejudiced approach towards Kashmir. "The discriminatory attitude towards Kashmir adopted by the previous NC-Congress regime and now the present PDP-BJP coalition has resulted in not only 'systemic disempowerment of Kashmiris' at every level, but has also worsened the infrastructure deficit in the Valley," he had said, and added that the "Agenda of Alliance" had been "just confined to paper and right from the day one there has been no consonance between the functioning of the PDP-BJP coalition Government with the said Agenda"."Continuation in the coalition seems to be doing more damage to both Kashmiris and the party," he had said to make his point and persuade the party leadership to rethink its ties with the BJP. |
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