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A move that further eroded BJP's support-base Transfer of Property Bill 7/4/2016 12:03:20 AM Early Times Report JAMMU, July 3: The state unit of the BJP was already at the receiving end not only in Jammu but also across the nation. The reason: Its Pakistan and Kashmir policy as well as its anti-Jammu and anti-non-Muslim minorities in J&K as well as its economic policy. The general view across the Jammu region, nay across the country, was that the BJP and the RSS had surrendered everything to Kashmir and subverted the mandate for "compromising the national stand on J&K". The view appears to be well-founded when considered in the light of what the BJP-led NDA Government at the Centre did after September 2014 and what the state unit of the BJP had done in the state after March 1, 2015. It is not a secret that Jammu has little or no share in the governance of the state and that it is no more than a B-team of the PDP whose writ alone runs in the state. This, despite the fact that the BJP has 25 MLAs in the assembly, the highest ever tally of the BJP in the assembly. What further eroded the BJP's support-base not only in Jammu province but also across the nation was the unqualified support it extended to the highly controversial Transfer of Property Bill. The Bill was approved by the state cabinet on June 23 with all the BJP ministers giving their full support to it. However, it was only on June 28 that the concerned citizens came to know that the BJP had become a party to the Bill that was designed to further widen the already rather wide gulf between the so-called state subjects and the rest of the Indians. Credit goes to Pawan Gupta, independent MLA from Udhampur, and also to BJP MLA from Kathua Rajeev Jasrtotia, who did their best to inform certain responsible individuals in Jammu about what had been going on behind the scene. As expected these concerned people unleashed a relentless campaign against the Bill, the BJP, the BJP ministers from Jammu and the BJP-led NDA government at the centre. The nature and magnitude of the opposition to the Bill, the BJP, the BJP ministers and the Narendra Modi's government was such that the Union Government had to intervene to salvage the situation. The Union Government made the state government fall in line and not get the Bill enacted into an Act. The Union Government intervened after it came to the conclusion that the enactment of the J&K Transfer of Property Act will destroy the BJP at the national level and could also engineer massive revolt in Jammu. It happened for the first time in the history of Indian legislature that a government, which had two-third majority in the House and which enjoyed the full support of the entire opposition, instead of tabling the Bill in the House for discussion and adoption overruled the opposition and sent the Bill to the Select Committee. It was an extraordinary development against which Leader of opposition and votary of autonomy Omar Abdullah the other day lodged his protest during his meeting with the state governor at Srinagar. In fact, he led a delegation to the governor to lodge a complaint against the state government's move to send the Bill to the Select Committee. Indeed, the Transfer of Property Bill was ill-conceived and ill-designed and had it been adopted by the assembly on June 30, it would have constructed a very high wall between J&K and the rest of the country. The Bill had sought to shut all the doors in J&K for non-state subjects and the results would have been very disastrous for the people of Jammu and all other Indians. No non-state subject could have under this Act got land even on lease and attorney. Notwithstanding the fact that the said Bill had been sent to the Select Committee, the anger in Jammu and in the rest of the nation has not died down. Nationalists and integrationists continue to lambaste the BJP and bemoan that they committed a blunder by pinning faith in the "untrustworthy and utterly undependable BJP".   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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