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| Look who's pelting stones in Valley: BJP workers | | Party's Valley leaders want amnesty for the arrested cadre | | Saqib Ahmad
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Nov 19: The BJP leaders from Kashmir Valley have been mounting pressure on the party leadership to ask its ministers to address their complaints including releasing of their workers and relatives who have been arrested during the summer agitation.
These leaders have expressed their displeasure over the attitude of some BJP ministers when they had called on them to get their works done.
While the Centre and state government is calling for strict action against those who are part of the unrest in the Valley, the BJP leaders in Kashmir, according to sources, have been seeking general amnesty for their relatives and workers who have been arrested on the charges of stone pelting.
The BJP has accused Pakistan of fomenting trouble in the Valley and said those who create law and order problem shall be dealt with strictly.
During various party meets, sources said the BJP leaders and workers conveyed their deep anguish to state party leadership for being ignored by the ministers in the last four months.
"Some of our relatives and workers have been framed in some cases. They have been arrested on the charges of stone pelting and should be given general amnesty. These people have strengthened the party base in the Valley. How can they be put behind bars?" various district presidents and general secretaries of the BJP have told the party leadership in various meetings.
"What is the fun of being in BJP when government can't give our relatives and workers a general amnesty?" they had said.
Sources said some of the Kashmiri leaders are also camping in Jammu to facilitate release of their workers and relatives.
"We are being completely sidelined even by the party ministers who don't pick up our phone calls," a district BJP president and general secretary had told the party leadership.
"During the unrest, we called number of times to the DCs and SSPs concerned and told them about our safety and security. But there was negative response from them and instead told us to move to Jammu as situation was not conducive in the Valley," they said.
A north Kashmir district president of the BJP has said his security was also withdrawn during the unrest. "A police official said the cops were facing a great threat, then how could they provide me the security," he said.
They were also demanding that they should be given some authority in making appointment of new SPOs which was recently announced by the Centre.
"When we show some work on the ground only then the party will be strengthened at the gross root level," they said. |
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