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| Stakeholders in Kashmir: BJP playing to the gallery | | News Analysis | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Nov 1: BJP leadership feels that it can fool the nation and the internally-displaced Kashmiri Hindus. That perhaps is the reason its leaders are making statements which are contradictory and mutually exclusive. In fact, they have mastered the art of speaking differently at different places - a trait the Kashmiri leaders are known for. Kashmiri leaders say one thing in Kashmir, another in Jammu and exactly to the contrary in Delhi. In fact, they play to the gallery.
The power politics has also educated the BJP leaders to behave in a similar fashion so that they address the different constituencies in a fashion that could appeal them and made them believe that the BJP is deeply concerned with the issues they hold very dear.
There is no need to go to the past. Just see what Vajpayee's right hand man and former Foreign Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha said in Srinagar a couple of days ago and what the BJP Minister said in Jammu on Sunday. In Kashmir, Sinha and his team of four flirted with all kinds of anti-nationals and reassured them that they would plead their cause with the powers-that-be in New Delhi. They told them that they felt their pain and understood the Kashmir issue. And a report on Sunday said that Sinha and Co had almost prepared their report which, among other things, seeks action against the security forces involved in anti-insurgency operations in the militant-infested Kashmir and release of all stone throwers and others.
As a matter of fact, Sinha and Co reassured the anti-nationals in Kashmir that they would convince New Delhi of the need to start parleys with them so that the impasse in Kashmir was broken and the Kashmir issue resolved to their satisfaction. To be more precise, they sought to make them believe that they were the major stakeholders in Kashmir.
Contrast this with what BJP Minister said in Jammu while addressing a gathering of internally-displaced Kashmiri Hindus, including artists. He said that the Kashmiri Hindus are the "major stakeholders" and they must keep on saying so. He was absolutely right. Indeed, the Kashmiri Hindus are the major stakeholders as they are the original inhabitants of Kashmir. Kashmir undoubtedly belongs to them. They long for their return to Kashmir like the Jews.
What Sinha said in Kashmir and what BJP Minister said in Jammu was a contradiction of sorts and this has not gone down well with the Kashmiri Hindus, who have been putting up in various colonies in Jammu since January 1990.
It would be only desirable if the BJP first decided who it considered the major stakeholder in Kashmir so that all the BJP leaders speak in one voice and so that a right signal goes to Kashmir that the BJP means business and that it is unlike the Kashmiri leadership which makes different statements at different places and regions. |
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