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But the BJP will not come out of Govt Sham protest 12/1/2015 12:27:58 AM Early Times Report JAMMU, Nov 30: The BJP, which got a huge mandate from Jammu in the 2014 Lok Sabha and Assembly elections in the name of Jammu and national integration, will not quit the coalition Government even if its coalition partner in the State continued to ignore Jammu region and add to the woes of its suffering people. This became clear on Monday, when one Minister and four BJP legislators on the condition of anonymity told this correspondent that "they will wait for another 15 days to see if the Chief Minister addressed the issues the BJP Ministers and MLAs raised during the breakfast meeting held at the Chief Minister's residence on Saturday and would raise these issues during the upcoming budget session of the State Legislature in case no action was taken on their demands". It was a sham protest, which boomeranged and gave an opportunity to the people of Jammu province to further expose the BJP and its anti-Jammu attitude. Many BJP leaders described the protest before the Chief Minister as a "shameful act" and termed those who met with the Chief Minister as "beggers". "The BJP Ministers and MLAs should have told the party high command that the BJP and people of Jammu province have been denied their due share in the Government and Council of Ministers and the State Cabinet and that they will come out of the Government and sit in the opposition, but by adopting a course they adopted, they further shamed their party and lowered its position in the eyes of people of Jammu province," said an MLA on the condition of anonymity. During the meeting with the Chief Minister, some BJP Ministers and MLAs, under the leadership of Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh, narrated their woes and highlighted the problems the people of Jammu province had been facing since months owing to the "negative attitude" of PDP Ministers like the Finance Minister, Works Minister and Education Minister. They reportedly told the Chief Minister that the BJP was without any important portfolio and that the Ministers of State had no work to do as their senior Ministers had not delegated any power to them. They also told the Chief Minister that Jammu province was being discriminated against in terms of allocation of developmental funds and that developmental activities, including construction, widening and blacktopping of roads, had come to a grinding halt in Jammu province. They, in addition, told the Chief Minister that "certain PDP Ministers were interfering in the departments the BJP holds" and that "they are taking policy decisions on their own and imposing their decisions without discussing the issues in the Cabinet". The fact is that the BJP Ministers and MLAs acknowledged that it was the PDP and the PDP Ministers who had been ruling the roost and the BJP Ministers had been reduced to a nullity for all practical purposes. They only vindicated those in the party and outside who held the view that the "BJP bartered the interests of Jammu province and compromised its ideology in lieu of nothing" and that the "BJP has harmed the interests of Jammu province and national interest more than any other political party".   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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