news details |
|
|
| Upcoming ULB polls to test BJP's mettle | | | Mohd Mukaram
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Dec: 26: After eating dust in the recently held Bihar polls, Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) is faced with another tough battle in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, where the upcoming Urban Local Bodies polls will prove to be a litmus test for the party, recuperating from the failure to meet local expectations.
The BJP promised abrogation of Article 370 of the Indian constitution during electioneering in last year's assembly polls.
Even as, the abrogation of the special status, remains party's core ideology but apparently for the sake of assuming power in Jammu and Kashmir BJP has, seemingly, surrendered its own policy after the formation of `government in J&K.
The BJP-PDP coalition met several road blocks like the beef ban fiasco, issue of West Pak refugees and inclusion of Hurriyat in dialogue after assuming power. When the government was formed on the Common Minimum Program (CMP), the party ceded to its ruling partners that present positions will be maintained on constitutional provisions including special status. "We have not achieved cent per cent yet on delivery, however, the notion that BJP is not doing anything has been washed out," BJPs Kashmir affairs incharge Ramesh Arora told Early Times. "It is our compulsion not to touch Article 370 under the common minimum program on which the government was formed. It is still in our party agenda but we had to make certain compromises like PDP did with their self-rule so that the government could be formed," he added. Has BJP failed to fulfill its promises made during the assembly polls in Jammu region? Or has New Delhi's hard core policy surrendered before J and K? During the campaigning in Assembly Elections, the BJP was accused of trying to be pro-Hindu in Jammu and "secular" in the Valley as it did not even talked its threat to abolish article 370 after the government formation. The right wing party leaders said that they will not be pitching issues like Article 370 and Beef ban during the ULB poll campaigning and will only raise local development issues. "As far as the abrogation of article 370 is concerned. Our party has not forgotten it and there is no change in the BJP's stand on repealing Article 370 and it continous to be part of BJP's core ideology. When we will get the proper time we will raise this issue again," another senior BJP leader said. However, launching a scathing attack against BJP-PDP coalition in Jammu and Kashmir, Ghulam Ahmed Mir, State Congress president accused both parties of playing political gimmicks with the state people rather than attending to popular agonies caused by their mis-governance. Despite the fact that BJP has established itself as a powerhouse in Jammu region but almost a year after BJP formed the coalition government in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, the right wing party seemingly has gone way out of its own ideological perimeters to develop a grass root footing in the state, where it continues to face massive resistance. In what may come as a shock to many, BJP has accommodated many former militants as constituency President's in Srinagar, a move which seems contradictory to BJPs image in the country. The question is whether the BJP will be able to replicate its success in Jammu as they had made in assembly elections. However, the ULB poll is likely to be held in April- May 2016 next year. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
| |
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
STOCK UPDATE |
|
|
 |
| BSE
Sensex |
 |
| NSE
Nifty |
|
|
| |
CRICKET UPDATE |
|
|
|
|
| |
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
