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| Political demands in Kashmir will be taken care of: Ram Madhav | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 27: BJP general secretary, who is also in-charge of J&K and former RSS spokesperson, Ram Madhav, is in news for two days. He is in the news because his statement made during an interview to international news channel Al Jazeera on December 24 that "he believes India, Pakistan and Bangladesh will reunite to form Akhand Bharat" (undivided India). Al Jazeera's Mehdi Hasan interviewed him.
The entire Indian media took notice of what Ram Madhav told Al Jazeera. After all, it was a very significant statement. It was only natural that the media gave prominence to what Ram Madhav said.
However, no Indian channel and no Indian newspaper took cognizance of what Ram Madhav said about J&K. When Hasan asked Ram Madhav to explain the BJP's stand on J&K and the way it wished to end unrest in Kashmir and bring peace in the region, the BJP general secretary said that J&K was an integral part of India and the only issue that still remained unsettled between India and Pakistan was the political status of Pakistan-occupied-J&K. "The only outstanding issue…with regard to the Kashmir problem is the Kashmir under Pakistan occupation. The Kashmir that is… an integral part of India, it has been proved time and again that it's an integral part of India". He took the right stand.
But he didn't stop there. When grilled by the audience, Ram Madhav assured it saying that "political demands in Kashmir…will be taken care of" and he coupled his commitment with a caveat: "short of separating from India". These comments were made in the final episode of the brand new series of Head to Head, Al Jazeera English's premier interview programme, which is hosted by Mehdi Hasan and filmed in front of an audience at the Oxford Union.
The assurance of Ram Madhav that "political demands in Kashmir…will be taken care of" must alarm the people of Jammu and Ladakh because he had hinted at what the BJP-led NDA government was contemplating in J&K. He virtually disclosed that the BJP-led NDA Government was pursuing the line of former Indian Prime Ministers belonging to the Congress party. Both Prime Ministers PV Narasimha Rao and Manmohan Singh had said "sky is the limit". Rao made this commitment at Burkina Faso in November 1995 and Singh made the same commitment in September 2013 on the sidelines of UN General Assembly. That means they chose foreign soil to promise autonomy to J&K bordering on virtual sovereignty. Ram Madhav also did the same outside India.
Will the people of Jammu and Ladakh take note of the Ram Madhav's nasty suggestion? And what has the local BJP leader to say about what the BJP national general secretary said about J&K, particularly his assurance that the BJP shall consider the political demands in Kashmir. The political demands in Kashmir, if accepted, would mean another communal partition of India, destruction of the minorities in J&K and enslavement of the people of Jammu and Ladakh. |
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