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| To appease secessionists, BJP demands amended FSA for J&K | | Ideological bankruptcy | | ET Report
Jammu, Mar 12: Gone are the days when J&K BJP would vouch for the National Food Security Act (NFSA) and assert that it will be implemented in letter and spirit. Only on December 19, BJP leader and the then Deputy Chief Minister had defended the NFSA and said its implementation in the State would benefit the people.
"The legislation would go a long way in providing subsidised food grains to the people of the State and…the verification time for registration under the Act has been extended so that more people can avail its benefit," the DyCM had said while addressing a gathering after inaugurating additional blocks of middle schools at Dharmani, Amala, Katali Billawar in Kathua district.
This was the stand of the BJP when in power and both the PDP and the BJP were a party to the adoption of the NFSA in J&K. The PDP-BJP coalition Government adopted the national Act on food security despite the opposition of the votaries of the State's separate status. The opponents of the NFSA, including the out-of-power NC, had warned that the application of the NFSA would further erode the State's special status and it must be withdrawn forthwith. Separatists had described the application of the NFSA as another step towards the entry of the RSS into Kashmir. "NFSA is another black law like PSA and AFSPA to be implemented in the State," Hurriyat Conference (M) chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq said on December 22. In fact, they had charged the PDP-BJP coalition Government with implementing the RSS agenda by adopting such legislations as the NFSA. Even a PDP Minister had taken cudgels with the then Chief Minister, criticized the Government decision on the NFSA and publicly said that the NFSA was "not a word of God or a religious book that cannot be changed".
Today's BJP is a different BJP. It is now speaking the language of the NC, Kashmiri separatists and all those in Kashmir who have been agitating against the enforcement of the NFSA. It is demanding amendments to the Act which it, along with the PDP, adopted and which was enforced only on February 15 by the Governor's dispensation.
It was the DyCM himself who criticized the NFSA and asked the State Governor to rectify what he called anomalies before the implementation of the NFSA. "Certain discrepancies have crept in NFSA. The Governor's administration needs to look into these keeping in view the peculiar food habits of all the 3 regions of the State viz Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir," he said on Friday while addressing a public gathering after inaugurating district-level Exhibition/Kissan Mela, organized by the Sericulture Development Department under Centrally sponsored scheme ATMA at Drung Dungara.
What the DyCM said was obviously the stand of his party. It is clear that the BJP is bereft of any ideology. That's the main reason the people of Jammu have lost faith in the BJP and started looking for a credible alternative. People of Jammu are keeping a watch on whatever the BJP has been saying and doing since March 2015 and they have come to the conclusion that they committed a wrong by voting for what they call "a party of cheaters, bluffers, rank opportunists and power hungry gang of persons".
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