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| Guv's address exposes BJP, its duplicity | | J&K's special status | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, May 26: J&K Governor NN Vohra's address on 25 May to the joint session of the state legislature has, if anything, again exposed the fake nationalist BJP and its double-speak as far as its stand on the special status of J&K is concerned.
The Governor's address unambiguously says that the special status the state enjoys under Article 370 of the Indian Constitution shall be maintained.
In J&K, it's not a single party rule. The state at present is being government by a coalition government and the two coalition partners are the PDP+ with 28 MLAs and BJP+ with an equal number of MLAs.
Hence, whatever the Governor's address said was the unanimous view of the PDP and the BJP. Governor only reads out the address that is prepared and approved by the state cabinet.
Credit goes to the PDP which held its ground firmly and ensured a detailed reference to the political status of J&K vis-à-vis New Delhi in the Governor's address. The PDP, like the NC, the Congress, the CPI-M and other Kashmir-based and Kashmir-centric outfits, has been an ardent believer in the concept of the state's special status and it had sought and got the mandate from Kashmir in 2014 on planks, which also included its insistence on the state's special status. Impressed by the PDP's election-time promises, the Kashmiri Muslims retuned to the assembly 25 members. The remaining 21 seats in Kashmir were shared between NC, Congress, CPI-M and independent candidates, including Pakistani agent En Rashid. Kashmir elects 46 members to the 87-member legislative assembly.
In Jammu province, the BJP had sought and got votes in the name of Jammu and on the nation-centric planks, including its promise of the state's full integration into India. To be more precise, it sought votes saying a vote for the BJP will be a vote against the state's special status. The people of Jammu province trusted the BJP, nay Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and created a history of sorts by electing 25 BJP MLAs. The remaining 12 seats in Jammu province were shared between the Congress, the NC, the PDP and an independent candidate.
If the PDP held its ground firmly and ensured a comprehensive reference on the state's special status in the Governor's Address, the BJP, on the contrary, did a complete U-turn on the solemn promise that it, if voted to power, will work against the state's special status. The people of Jammu province have taken cognizance of this U-turn of the BJP. They have said that the "Governor's address has exposed the BJP and its duplicity" and that "it will pay a very heavy price when it again goes to the polls in the Jammu province". This is the general view in Jammu, which wants its complete integration into India and also a dispensation that helps its people obtain a rightful place in the polity. |
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