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| NIT row, BJP ministers and BJP as a party | | Fooling nationalists | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, May 1: The unscrupulous BJP has done it again. On the one hand, the BJP ministers have been keeping their mouth shut and not uttering a word of sympathy for the oppressed, abused and threatened non-local students of the NIT Srinagar, on the other, party spokespersons like Virender Gupta are issuing statements indicting the authorities and saying that the BJP rejects the inquiry committee report that censured the non-local students and put the entire blame on them for the clashes between them and the local students and police lathi-charge.
The BJP on Saturday sought to create an impression that the BJP and the BJP ministers were not on the same page and that the BJP as a party disapproved of the inquiry committee report.
Virender Gupta on Saturday issued a written statement, obviously at the behest of the party bigwigs, expressing shock over the report submitted by the Srinagar Additional Deputy Commissioner on the NIT row, terming the report as "biased" and saying that the ADC falsely implicated the non-local students and charged them with vitiating the atmosphere on the campus.
Gupta said that the inquiry committee did not include in its report the role of Kashmiri students, who, according to him, had provoked non-locals by raising anti-India and pro-Pak slogans while celebrating the Indian team's defeat in the Would T20 match. He also accused the inquiry committee of not taking "cognizance" of the lathi-charge and use of teargas shells on the peaceful non-local students holding a demonstration, no sparing even girl students, who were waving the national flag and chanting Bharat Mata Ki Jai slogans.
It would have been better for the BJP leadership to direct the BJP ministers to play their role in the Cabinet meetings and ensure that the inquiry committee report was rejected and action taken against the real culprits, including the erring policemen, authorities of the NIT Srinagar and anti-national students. Such a gesture on its part would have instilled confidence in the student community.
The statement of the BJP spokesperson against the inquiry committee will not be appreciated by the people. In fact, they have rejected the BJP's statement as yet another attempt on its part to mislead and hoodwink them.
It would not be out of place to mention that the BJP leadership has been taking recourse to such an approach ever since the formation of the PDP-BJP coalition government to convey an impression that it doesn't appreciate the conduct of BJP ministers.
If the BJP really means what it said in the statement, it must ask its ministers to act or quit. It cannot criticize the government and remain its part at the same time. |
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