Terming the association of the BJP with PDP as the most dangerous development after 1947, Jammu For India (JFI) convener Prof Hari Om today urged the BJP to snap its ties with the PDP and play the role of opposition as J&K is a most sensitive state that needed an effective and responsible opposition all the more. The association of the BJP with the PDP has turned out to be more harmful to the non-Muslim minorities in the state and the nation as a whole and it has been helping forces inimical to the vital national interest.“The people of Jammu not voted the BJP in 2014 for promoting the interests of separatists and further jeopardizing the interests of the already rather neglected and grossly neglected Jammu province and trans-Himalayan Ladakh. They had voted for the BJP because it had held out solemn commitments that it, if voted to power, will work for the fulfillment of the dream of Syama Prasad Mookerjee and ending the discriminatory policies of the successive Kashmiri-dominated and Valley-centric governments in the state. Sadly, the BJP has been doing just the opposite ever since it became part of the state government,” said Prof Hari Om, adding that its history post-March 2015 was one of betrayals, compromises and complete U-turns.
Prof Hari Om said that the JFI could catalogue innumerable acts of omission and commission committed by the BJP during the past 22 months and to make his point he referred to its meek surrender to the PDP during the condemnable actions against the pro-India helpless students of the NIT Srinagar and devotees of Budha Amarnath.That the BJP allowed the PDP to fire its own two Law Officers in 2015 whose only fault was that they urged the J&K High Court to implement the cow-killing and beef-eating laws as they were and its failure to make the PDP Finance Minister to roll back 12.5% jizya on chopper service to Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine and other Hindu religious shrines only proved that the BJP could go to any extent to harm the country and outrage the sensitivities of the Hindus to fulfill its lust for power, said the JFI convener. He added the BJP crossed the red line to pander to Kashmiri communalists and separatists when its national general secretary Ram Madhav abused the Hindu students of the NIT Srinagar, who had waved the national flag to uphold the nation in Kashmir. By denouncing as a political act the waving of national flag by the nationalist students in the NIT Srinagar, the BJP insulted the very nation itself, said Prof Hari Om.
The JFI convener also dubbed as dubious the stand of the BJP that the Hindu and Sikh refugees from Pakistan had every right to claim citizenship rights as they had been living in Jammu since 1947 and said the BJP was further outraging the already outraged sentiments of these refugees by making such nasty statements.“The BJP is part of the state government. It needs to act and not make hollow statements. The BJP’s vision document unequivocally says that the refugees from Pakistan shall be granted all citizenship rights, “said Prof Hari Om, adding that the BJP should honour the commitment instead of making ridiculous statements.Prof Hari Om said the PDP-BJP government is negating the good work being done by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and urged the Prime Minister not to overlook CM Mehbooba Mufti’s December 27 Srinagar statement that her government had succeeded in convincing the people of the state that “political process” for resolution of the so-called Kashmir issue and development of the state will go hand-in-hand.The JFI convener expressed hope that the Prime Minister would appreciate the developing situation in the state and direct the BJP to come out of the government without losing a moment. He once again reiterated the demand that the Hindus, Buddhists and Sikhs be liberated from the Kashmiri Muslim hegemony and subjugation as their very survival is under grave threat. (CNS)