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| Nationalists in BJP planning coup against high command | | Coalition Govt in trouble | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Nov 17: The humiliating defeat of the BJP in the just-held Assembly elections in Bihar has upset the nationalist and pro-Jammu members in the State unit of the BJP. They have come to the conclusion that the "BJP will become totally irrelevant in Jammu, which remained the party's pocket borough for decades, in case the party high command sticks to the PDP-BJP agenda of alliance any longer and not to review it taking into consideration the impact it had on the State polity and Jammu region would be like committing a political suicide".
"The agenda of Alliance has harmed the country and the BJP. It is a document which is essentially Kashmir-centric and separatist and militant-friendly. Things in the State in general and Kashmir valley in particular have worsened to a considerable extent. If the BJP is to survive in the State and face the secularists' onslaught elsewhere in the country where 'secular' parties have started thinking in terms for forming 'mahagathbandhan' to check the Prime Minister Narendra Modi's wave, the high command has to review the fall-out of the agenda of alliance. To continue to insist on the roundly-condemned agenda of alliance would be only to ensure the party's political demise in Jammu and hurt the party's interests elsewhere in the country," said a senior party functionary, who is also a senior member in the State legislature, on condition of anonymity.
"There are many in the State BJP who want to quit the party to save their honour and dignity," he said, adding that "he, like many others in the party, is feeling suffocated". "It is not the party we worked for and built by dint of our hard work for years. It's the replica of the Congress. Nay, it is worse than the Congress. The Congress didn't compromise its interests like the BJP high command did in a most shameless manner overlooking the far reaching consequences for the party in the State and rest of the country," another senior BJP leader, who holds an important position, in the party, said.
Not one but many senior party leaders in one voice expressed fear that "The BJP is on the verge of split in the State, with pro-Jammu and nationalists in the party planning a coup against the party high command considering the fact that the party high command is not taking cognizance of the developing situation in the State". "We want to save the party, but our problem is that a few vested interests have captured the party and misled the party high command. We have been left with no other option but to quit the party," said another senior party leader. "We may follow the path former political advisor to the State BJP president has been treading for almost six months now to save the party," he further said, and added that "time is running out very fast and we have to act before it is too late".
What these senior BJP leaders said was quite meaningful. There are cogent reasons to believe that the party may witness a revolt against the high command sooner than later.
Very importantly, all is not well even in the PDP, the BJP's coalition partner. It is facing revolt from two founder members of the party, who are also MPs. They are against the PDP-BJP coalition and they, like many in the BJP, oppose the Agenda of Alliance for different reasons. |
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