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| Hardly any difference between Farooq Abdullah, Yashwant Sinha | | Dual approach | |
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 19: On December 8, NC president Farooq Abdullah offered support to the Hurriyat Conference and urged New Delhi to engage with it to find permanent solution to the Kashmir issue. His statement created furore across the country. Several news channels condemned Farooq Abdullah and questioned his credentials. BJP spokespersons participating in the TV debates dubbed Farooq Abdullah "anti-national" and used all kinds of invectives and epithets for Farooq Abdullah. In fact, they attacked the whole of the Abdullah dynasty and held it responsible for all the troubles in Jammu & Kashmir. Even the Congress tore into Farooq Abdullah.
In Jammu, the BJP workers held protest demonstrations against Farooq Abdullah. The VHP and the ABVP, the RSS off shoots, also condemned Farooq Abdullah and his NC for questioning the status of Jammu & Kashmir vis-à-vis India and demanded action against the NC president.
The past one week has witnessed BJP leader and former Foreign Minister and Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha making almost identical statements in Kashmir, Delhi and Jharkand, his home state. He has also been giving interviews to Kashmir-based dailies and news agencies and Delhi-based leading news channels expressing views almost similar to the ones Farooq Abdullah and Omar Abdullah have been airing. So much so, Sinha even met with the Union President Pranab Mukharjee, along with his gang of four - Kapil Kak, Wajahat Habibullah, Bharat Bhushan and Shasoba Barve- last week and shared with him the feedback they got from Kashmir during their two recent visits to Kashmir. His visits to Kashmir and his statements on J&K outside Kashmir have been getting ample coverage.
But more than that, Kashmiri leaders like Farooq Abdullah and Omar Abdullah have repeatedly appreciated Yashwant Sinha and his team and their approach and methodology and asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to appreciate the efforts of Sinha and CO.
Significantly, not one BJP leader, local or national, has uttered a word against Sinha and what he has been doing to damage the national interest in Kashmir. Why this dual approach? Why condemnation of Farooq Abdullah and Omar Abdullah and why no condemnation of Sinha? The BJP needs to clear its stand on the activities of Sinha. Otherwise, it shall be presumed that whatever Sinha is doing is doing at the behest of New Delhi. |
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