| BJP's changed stand on AFSPA, NHPC projects commendable: Hari Om | | |  Early Times Report
JAMMU, Feb 21: Commending BJP's changed stand that Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) will not be withdrawn from J&K and there will be no discussion with PDP on National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC)-run and managed power projects in the state, Prof Hari Om on Sunday said that it was just not enough.
"Conceding these two highly obnoxious demands would have meant a great victory of those in Kashmir who describe the Indian Army as 'occupying force', NHPC-run projects as 'symbols of Indian imperialism" and the otherwise lawful presence of India in the state as undesirable and unwarranted," said Prof Hari Om. He added that the rejection of these two demands set by PDP for the government formation would surely send a right message across the Kashmir Valley that New Delhi meant serious business and it will not consider any demand that undermines the unity and territorial integrity of India.
"It is also time for BJP to reject outright and with contempt the PDP's three other unsettling demands which seek trilateral talks between India, Pakistan and Kashmiri Muslims to determine the political status of J&K vis-à-vis India, recognise Kashmiri seditionists as stakeholders and vacation of those pieces of land in J&K which the Army and paramilitary forces use for training and defence purposes," said Prof Hari Om. All these demands are utterly unacceptable considering their dangerous ramifications for the unity and integrity of India, he said, adding that BJP will assuage the hurt feeling of the estranged nationalist constituency in the state and silence the separatist-friendly parties such as Congress, CPI, CPI-M, JDU, RJD, AAP, which have been very rightly questioning its hobnobbing with PDP, if it also rejected all these three demands.
BJP should not only reject all these divisive demands but it should sever all its ties with PDP, saying it can't do business with a party that questions the political status of J&K and bats for trilateral talks between Pakistan, India and Kashmir, Prof Hari Om said. "BJP will restore the space it lost in J&K and rest of the country if it severed all of its ties with PDP," he said, adding by flirting with PDP, BJP has only become an object of ridicule and contempt with even separatist-friendly parties like Congress and its own allies like Shiv Sena questioning its very nationalistic credentials.
Prof Hari Om expressed hope that BJP leadership will realize the gravity of the situation and take cognizance of dangers facing the country and act in the best interest of the under-attack India. It has a massive mandate behind it and the mandate was against the Congress and similar other parties and formations, which had weakened the country, demoralized our armed forces, lowered the position of the nation in the eyes of international community, divided the Indian society on caste, religion and regional lines and followed foreign, military and economic policies that were unsuited to India, said Prof Hari Om. The nation wants the BJP-led dispensation in New Delhi to undo the wrongs committed by Congress and similar other fake secular parties, which today are openly siding with JNU-based seditionists, including Kashmiri separatists.
BJP has everything to gain and nothing to lose by pursuing a bold and courageous policy, Prof Hari Om opined. He added that the first step that BJP high command needs to take forthwith is to tell PDP leadership that it rejects its politics of blackmail and direct the local unit to play the role of an effective and responsible opposition considering the nature of the state and the Kashmiri leadership and its subversive ideology. |
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