BJP State President & MLA Jugal Kishore Sharma today charged the ruling National Conference with vitiating the political atmosphere in Jammu province to promote its communal and pro-autonomy pernicious agenda. He said the National Conference in particular has turned so vindictive against the nationalists forces in the state that it is implicating innocent persons to take revenge against those who played very important role in the historic Amarnath land row agitation in 2008 that had led to collapse of Ghulam Nabi Azad led Congress government.
He expressed deep concern over the latest move of the NC-Congress coalition government in the state to implicate two innocent youth after a gap of five years. Why did the government take such a long time to challan them in the court of law? he asked and added that the very fact that the state government has acted after such a long time is a clear proof that its intentions are not only ill-designed and ill-motivated, but are also calculated to create communal tension in the otherwise peaceful Jammu province. He also expressed his solidarity with all those who suffered during the 63 days long agitation.
Sharma said that it is strange that while the state government has not taken any step to implement the August, 2008 solemn agreement between the government and the Shri Amarnath Sangarsh Samiti, it has, on the contrary, let loose its police to harass the innocent citizens of Jammu. He reminded the vindictive and communally motivated NC-Congress government that as per the agreement even those booked under various cooked up charges had to be released and the families whose members sacrificed their precious lives during the great agitation and the trading community and transporters, who had suffered huge financial losses during those two months of agitation in Jammu, were to be adequately compensated.
BJP Chief warned the state government that any move on its part to implicate the innocent people in criminal or other cases would only lead to a massive agitation in Jammu province where the people, cutting across party and religious lines, are already seething with anger due to the anti-Jammu policies of the NC-Congress coalition government. He also asked them to learn lesson from the massive defeat the Congress recently suffered in four states because of its anti-people policies, inflation, corruption, scams and other acts of omission and commission. He made it loud and clear that the BJP would not allow the NC-Congress coalition government to play dirty and pisive games in Jammu province and ask these parties to clear their stand on the PIL that November 17 should be celebrated as Republic Day in Jammu & Kashmir and added that Jammu and Kashmir is an integral part of India and it dismisses the PIL as an act of sedition against Bharat.