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| ULBs elections: Poll prospects of BJP poor in Jammu | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 8: If reports are to be believed, then elections to the Urban Local bodies and Panchayats are round the corner in J&K. Elections to elected new ULBs could be held as early as in March and to the panchayats in May-June.
What are the poll prospects of the BJP in Jammu province? The BJP has been at the receiving end for months now due to the party's several acts of omission and commission, the utter failure of the BJP Ministers to deliver on any front, its policy of appeasement towards Kashmir, rabidly anti-Jammu policy and the BJP-led NDA Government's flip flops as far as its policy towards Pakistan is concerned.
During the past more than nine months, the people of Jammu province observed massive bandh on eight days, organized three massive rallies, including the Lalkar Rally and held dharna for almost two months against the BJP and its policies towards them. The functioning of the courts, including the High Court, remained paralyzed for more than a month. The people cutting across party lines, civil society groups and parties like the Panthers Party and the Congress, besides several caste organizations, exposed the BJP's double-speak on many issues and repeatedly charged the BJP with betraying the Jammu mandate and cheating them. Refugees from West Pakistan and PoJK also lambasted the BJP a number of times and accused it of betraying their trust and leaving them in the lurch.
Refugee organizations like Panun Kashmir and an important body of lawyers, Jammu Lawyers Forum, organized four seminars on the PDP-BJP agenda of alliance on the basis of which the present Government came into being in March this year to educate the public opinion about the implications of the agenda as far as the people of the State in general and Jammu province in particular and the nation as a whole were concerned. The proceeding of the seminars got extensive coverage.
The fact of the matter is that the BJP only got negative publicity during all these months of it being in power in J&K for the first time. If the prevailing political situation in Jammu province is any indication, then it can be said that the poll prospects of the BJP are bleak.
The BJP leadership has been holding meetings to work out a strategy to win the local bodies' elections, but insiders say that the party leadership and cadres are not very confident of the party's victory. "They believe that the BJP would lose the coming elections very badly, as they understand that the people of Jammu province have developed hatred for the party, the BJP Ministers and the BJP legislators," sources within the party say, and add that "the BJP has nothing in its kitty to offer to the people of Jammu province".
According to sources close to the party's top brass, "the BJP leadership is convinced that anti-BJP wave is sweeping the country" and they also referred to the ignominious defeats of the BJP in Assembly elections in Delhi and Bihar and local-bodies and panchayat elections in UP and Gujarat. They further said that "the margin with which the BJP lost the Lok Sabha by-election in the Ratlam constituency in Madhya Pradesh clearly suggested that the Prime Minister has lost his charisma and the people across the country has lost faith in the BJP".
All this has demoralized the local leadership and to the extent that most of the BJP leaders, including Ministers and MLAs are afraid of facing the people. The consensus among the party leaders is that "it would be better if the idea of holding elections to the local bodies and panchayats is dropped". This should explain everything. |
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