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BJP's dual approach Supports to Ladakhi demand for UT, opposes to Jammu statehood demand 10/4/2016 11:02:10 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, Oct 4: It is strange. The BJP, which won 25 seats from Jammu and none from Ladakh and Kashmir in 2014, has dual approach towards Jammu and Ladakh regions. It has been, on the one hand, supporting the Ladakhi demand for Union Territory status and separate assembly and, on the other, vehemently opposing the demand in Jammu for statehood. The attitude of the RSS towards Jammu and Ladakh has been no different. It adopted in 2002 resolution demanding UT status for Ladakh and statehood for Jammu but subsequently dropped from its agenda Jammu and retained in its agenda Ladakh. In 2014, the BJP contested the Lok Sabha and assembly elections in Ladakh on the lank of UT status. Its candidate for the Lok Sabha won but all the BJP candidates lost the assembly election in December the same year. The reason was that the BJP had after May 2014 given up its demand for abrogation of Article 370. In 2015, however, the BJP sprung a big surprise by winning most of the seats in the Leh Autonomous Hill Development Council and unseated the Congress. It contested the election on the UT plank. The BJP could win the election because it had come into power in the state in alliance with the PDP. The BJP has realized that if it is to remain relevant in Ladakh, it has to stick to the UT status slogan. That was the reason the BJP made common cause with all other parties in Ladakh - the Congress, the PDP and the NC - and led the Ladakhi delegation to the visiting Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday. The delegation comprising all political parties, social and religious organizations in one voice put forth demand seeking separation from Kashmir and UT status for their region. The BJP deserves congratulation for appreciating the sentiments of the local people. However, what has not gone down well with the people of Jammu province is its indifferent attitude to the age-old demand in Jammu for reorganization of the state. Their argument is that if separation of Ladakh from Kashmir was not against the national interest, how could the separation of Jammu from Kashmir harm it? It is a valid argument. Ladakh is bigger province and Jammu comes after it. The BJP has to review its stand as far as Jammu is concerned. After all, its core constituency is Jammu province. It is in power in the state not because of Ladakh but because of Jammu and this factor the BJP must appreciate.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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