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| No compromise on AFSPA: BJP | | Mood of nation | |
Early Times Report
jammu, Mar 2: The BJP has, like the PDP, it seems, hardened its stand on Government formation in J&K, notwithstanding some statements here and there by some local BJP leaders that the coalition between the BJP and the PDP is very much intact and the State will soon have a coalition Government headed by the PDP.
As for the PDP, the party president Mehbooba Mufti's stand on the Government formation ever since the demise of her father, Mufti Sayeed, had been consistent: "We will not burn fingers for nothing and I will assume office only if I am convinced that I will fulfill my late father's dream, carry forward his legacy and implement his vision for J&K". Her statement that "her father's legacy is so big that it doesn't fit in the Chief Minister's chair" should explain her stand on the Government formation. Only a political naive could hold the view that Mehbooba Mufti has not set pre-conditions for the Government formation as, for example, former J&K Chief Minister and NC working president Omar Abdullah.
"Mehbooba Mufti should tell the people what she has demanded from the Central Government. Otherwise PDP can try to market any routine development as a demand they had sought from the Central Government and use this as a fig-leaf to justify its second imminent sellout," Omar Abdullah was quoted as saying while addressing party workers in Beerwah on Tuesday.
The BJP could have accepted all the pre-conditions set by the PDP, but it didn't because the mood of the nation is against any compromise on J&K. Things changed particularly after February 9, when anti-national JNU students, including Kashmiri students and some outsiders, including Kashmiri separatists, organized a seditious event on the campus. If one catalogues the statements of the BJP pre and post-February 9, one would surely find the difference.
Before the JNU incident, almost all the BJP leaders had given everyone to understand that the PDP had not set any pre-conditions for Government formation and the PDP-BJP coalition would be in place sooner than later. But the political statements which were issued by the BJP leaders, both national level and local, especially after February 21 clearly suggested a change in their approach and stand. That day, BJP point-man for J&K Ram Madhav had met with Mehbooba Mufti at her Srinagar's residence to discuss Government formation. A day later, he told press persons in Delhi that the BJP will not dilute its stand on AFSPA under which the Army involved in anti-insurgency operations enjoys legal immunity. The same day, BJP leader and former Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh said in Jammu that there will be no discussion on the PDP's demanding seeking return of NHPC-controlled Dulhasti and Uri Power Projects to the J&K Government.
On February 28, Nirmal Singh spoke the language of Ram Madhav at Amritsar and, among other things, said that the "BJP will not compromise its stand on the AFSPA". "The alliance between the BJP and the PDP would be formed on the basis of governance and not on ideology and the BJP will not change its stand on the AFSPA," he said while talking to reporters.
In between, BJP national spokesperson Sambit Patra and RSS ideologue Rakesh Sinha repeatedly questioned the credentials of the PDP and they adopted anti-BJP line while rebutting the oft-repeated charge that the BJP had compromised its ideology for the sake of power in J&K.
All these developments point to the fact that both the parties have hardened their stand on Government formation. The compulsion of the PDP is its Kashmir constituency and the compulsion of the BJP, which is already at the receiving end, is its core constituency across the country. The BJP just can't afford to ignore the national mood and commit political suicide at this point in time.
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