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| Rattled BJP's attack on Pawan has no takers | | News ANALYSIS | | Early Times Report
jammu, May 9: The Saturday blistering attack of former MoS and independent MLA from Udhampur on the BJP has not only exposed the so-called nationalist BJP and its double-speak but also rattled the party leadership. That day, Gupta had charged the BJP with giving up its ideology for the sake of power and asserted that the BJP had lost its independent character. "Hitherto, the BJP was ideologically bankrupt. Now, the BJP has established that it is also politically bankrupt and corrupt," he had said.
So much so, he had claimed that the BJP had merged its identity with the PDP. "The BJP is not the B-team of the PDP. It has actually merged with the PDP for enjoying power and harming the national interest and the interests of the people of Jammu region," he had said, adding that "Jammu and the nation are in danger" and that "he will expose the BJP in the assembly and fight for the Jammu cause as well as the national cause". He had said that time had come for the people of Jammu region to unite against the BJP and save Jammu to save India.
To make his point against the BJP, Pawan Gupta had referred to what was done to the non-local students of the NIT Srinagar, the common cause that the BJP made with the government as far as the NEET row was concerned, dismantling of bunkers in Handwara in the broad daylight to lower the morale of soldiers, the hostile attitude of the BJP towards the PoJK refugees and refugees from Pakistan, the manner in which it threw the printed election manifesto into dustbin and threw to the wind its vision document, compromise its stand on Article 370 and the ideology of Syama Prasad Mookerjee and so on. This correspondent was very much present in the jam-packed room where Pawan addressed the press conference. He had also referred to the level of discrimination with Jammu people and revealed that the people of Jammu region contribute almost 90 per cent revenue to the state exchequer and get only crumbs in return.
Indeed, he was very convincing and all of his responses were spontaneous and to the point, which indicated his political acumen and spirit to fight.
It was obvious that the attack of Pawan Gupta would rattle the BJP leadership and it actually happened. A day later, one BJP minister and party president Sat Sharma came out with their own arguments to defend their party but with no result. They couldn't rebut a single charge against the party and the BJP ministers. They simply said that since Pawan Gupta was not inducted in the ministry, he spoke against the BJP and the BJP ministers, especially the Deputy Chief Minister.
"Today, he is not in the Council of Ministers. His allegations against the party and its leaders become self-explanatory of his conduct. The ministers, legislators and leaders of the BJP are worthy of taking up administrative issues competently and their performance is being held in high esteem in all three regions of the state…No force can alienate the state of Jammu and Kashmir from the Union of India. The BJP has always espoused complete accession of state with India and it will fight till the end to maintain its sanctity," the BJP reportedly said and what it said didn't match with what it and its ministers had done after February 2015.
What the BJP said was laughable. For, everyone in Jammu and elsewhere in the country holds the view that the BJP abandoned its ideology the day it, along with the PDP, formulated and adopted the agenda of alliance.
The truth, in short, is that Pawan Gupta, who scored a spectacular victory in the assembly election, has laid bare the disparities between the ground realities and the falsehood for which the BJP is known all across the nation. There are reasons to believe that Pawan Gupta would spill more beans in the days to come in and outside the assembly and the result would be that no BJP leader and minister would be able to face the people of the humiliated Jammu region. And the BJP leaders know it that Pawan Gupta knows more than what he revealed on Saturday, which went down well with the people. |
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