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| BJP stands isolated | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Apr 8: The BJP is again at the receiving end. The reason is the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Srinagar episode that witnessed, and continue to witness, non-Kashmiri students face to face with Kashmiri students and certain vested interests in Kashmir Valley. The episode has, on the one hand, exposed the BJP and its concept of nationalism and, on the other, created a situation that could escalate tensions across the country. In fact, an anti-Kashmir wave is already sweeping the nation with the parents of non-Kashmiri students across the country and the general population charging the BJP-led NDA Government at the Centre with not providing foolproof security to the non-Kashmiri students studying in NIT Srinagar.
There is general consensus among all the non-BJP political parties that the BJP has squandered the massive mandate that it got in the 2014 general election and that things would turn more alarming if the BJP continued to behave in the fashion it has been behaving since May 2014. There should have been debate on economic and developmental issues in the country but this has not been happening. What has gripped the nation is a sense of insecurity with many concerned Indians opining that India is on the brink of disintegration and that the need of the time is unleash and strengthen forces which could check fissiparous tendencies.
The critics have been questioning the New Delhi's Pakistan policy and have also been accusing the present dispensation in New Delhi of mishandling the sensitive state of J&K. They have been saying that New Delhi's policy towards Pakistan has only emboldened Pakistan and harmed the national interests in the state. They are right. What Pakistan on Thursday said only proved that. On Thursday, Pakistan High Commissioner Abdul Basit said that talks and terror could go hand in hand, Kashmir must be resolved and the talk process with India stood suspended. What he said only vindicated the critics of the BJP's foreign policy vis-à-vis Pakistan and established that those managing foreign affairs do not know what to do and what not to do.
Similarly, the critics of the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre have been saying that it was Kashmir that destroyed the Congress and that the BJP will also meet the same fate in case it continued to handle Kashmir in the manner it has been handling for almost two years now.
The general view across the country is that the BJP has not only to tackle Pakistan and Kashmir effectively and as per the wishes of the people of the country but also to change its outdated social and economic policies so that the prevailing social tensions and discontent are ended. The policies should be clear, bold, country-centric and people-centric is the general view.
One can only hope and pray that good sense would finally prevail and those at the helm in New Delhi discharged their obligations towards the nation as well as J&K. Mishandling Pakistan and Kashmir would not only destroy the BJP but would also damage the long term interests of the nation. Similarly, the continuation of the existing social and economic policies would cause more social tensions and further add to the prevailing discontent.
Time is running out and running out very fast. The BJP has to reform itself and perform. It has to prove by its deeds and words that it means serious business in J&K and rest of the country. It has to establish rule of law in Kashmir and it has to rein in secessionists, soft or otherwise, without losing a single moment. There is no other alternative.
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