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| In Chhattisgarh, BJP is termed 'Phool wali Congress' | | | Early Times Report
Jammu. June 4: What an irony! A party which was called a party with a difference is being termed in Chhattisgarh "Phool (read lotus) wali Congress". It is the BJP which is being termed in the BJP ruled Chhattisgarh "Phool wali Congress". To be more precise, the people of Chhattisgarh believe that there is no fundamental difference between the BJP and the Congress and that the political culture, behaviour and policies of both the national parties are the same.
Some have even gone to the extent of saying that the BJP is more Congress than the Congress is and that the BJP has been going beyond what the Congress did and worked for. The view of the BJP critics can't be contested. For, the BJP is not a party with a difference. It is a party that abandoned its ideology in 1998, when it, along with other secular and anti-Hindu parties, forged National Democratic Alliance (NDA) to capture power in Delhi. It has not looked back since than. Rather, the BJP has gone several steps further and adopted policies which even the Congress and other secular parties refrained from adopting under pressure from below.
It is, however, true that the BJP rakes up Hindu-specific and nation-centric issues during the election campaign to garner votes, as it did in Jammu in 2014 and in Assam in the just-held assembly elections. In Jammu, the BJP sought and got mandate on Jammu-specific and nation-specific planks. It also sought and got votes from Jammu on the plank that a vote for it would be a vote against Pakistan, against Kashmiri separatists and Kashmiri hegemony over Jammu and for the state's complete integration into India. But what it did after wining 25 seats from Jammu was just the negation of what it had held out.
The BJP has been pursuing a policy towards Pakistan which is no different from that of the Congress. In fact, the BJP has gone several steps further to appease Pakistan, Kashmiri separatists and outrage the nationalistic urges and aspirations of its own constituency in Jammu, something no normal party would do.
Similarly, in Assam, the BJP also sought and got mandate on almost similar planks. In Assam, it raked up the Bangladeshi issue, aroused popular passions, polarized voters and captured power in alliance with two regional parties. There are already reports that the BJP might not do anything to oust the Bangladeshi immigrants from Assam - reports which are being interpreted by the critics of the BJP as manifestation of the BJP's politics of bluff and deceit. The fact of the matter is that the Congressization of the BJP is complete. Hence, it's no wonder then that the people of Chhattisgarh are terming the BJP as "Phool Wali Congress" and the people of Jammu province are dismissing the BJP as an extension of the Congress or Kashmiri parties. |
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