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| NC, Cong insulting Ladakhi electorate | | Change of guard in Leh | | Early times Report
JAMMU, Nov 3: It was on October 17 that the people of Leh district of Ladakh region went to the polls to elect fifth Ladakh Autonomous Hill Council development (LAHCD), Leh. The results were declared on October 23. Ever since then, the Congress, the NC and even some separatist organizations have been criticizing the Ladakhi verdict and terming it as a major step towards division of the state.
The reasons are obvious. The otherwise unpopular in Jammu, BJP, which till May 2014 was a marginal political player in the region, sprung a big surprise by capturing 18 out of 25 seats it contested in the 30-member Council. It lost one seat to the Congress by a margin of one vote after the Congress candidate demanded recounting. The exploited to the hilt the anti-incumbency factor and scored a great victory.
The Congress, which had been at the helm of affairs in the district since 2000, suffered a massive defeat. It could win just four seats. In 2010, the Congress had won 21 seats. As for the NC and the PDP, which fielded eight candidates each in the elections, the former won two seats and the latter failed to open its account.
While the PDP accepted the defeat with humility, the NC and the Congress, coalition partners in the previous anti-democratic and anti-people dispensation, have not accepted their defeat. On the contrary, their leadership has been denouncing the Ladakhi electorate without naming it, saying the Ladakhi verdict only vindicated their stand that the BJP was working against the unity of the state by holding out such commitments as UT status for the region. The leadership of both these defeated parties has been holding the BJP's divisive politics for its victory in the strategic region.
And on the eve of formation of the fifth council, an NC leader from Jammu, who is more loyal than the king, came out heavily on the Ladakhi electorate in the garb of his attack on the BJP and accused the BJP of putting time-tested unity of Jammu & Kashmir in peril by inciting regional passions and creating a wedge between different segments of society on religious lines.
"We are at the crossroads of history as divisiveness and intolerance have reached dangerous proportions in an otherwise homogeneous and tolerant state," he said, at Sher-e-Kashmir Bhawan, adding that machinations of the BJP are fragmenting society into bits and pieces in conjunction with the PDP. "The role of the two parties before and after the 2014 Assembly elections has been intriguing as both worked for strengthening their respective constituencies by opposing each other to the hilt. It was a preplanned strategy devised in Nagpur to garner support for as many as seats possible by bringing people of the three regions and various religions to an eyeball-to-eyeball situation," he was quoted as saying.
The Jammu-based Kashmiri agent termed the BJP and the PDP two sides on one and the same coin, notwithstanding the BJP had repeatedly expressed itself against those within the party who had been consistently urging Prime Minister Narendra Modi to reorganize the state to "end alienation in Jammu".
It bearing recalling that only last week, J&K BJP Prabhari and national vice-president Avinash Rai Khanna had dismissed the demand in Jammu for trifurcation as "communal and disturbing" and declared that the BJP stood for the unity and integrity of the state.
The point is that this Jammu-based NC leader and his Kashmiri masters, including those in his own party and elsewhere, have not taken kindly the Ladakhi verdict. They had also done the same thing in 2014 and even thereafter to the Jammu electorate, which had decimated the NC and the Congress and reposed faith in the BJP, a party that sold out the interests of its Jammu constituency to cultivate Kashmiri leadership.
In the meantime, the BJP today elected Chief Executive Councilor, who became the first chief of the first BJP-controlled LAHDC, Leh. |
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