BJP state president Jugal Kishore Sharma, while addressing a large gathering of local people of Nagrota town, accused NC, Congress and PDP of ignoring issues of public importance and raking up emotive and pisive issues for vote-bank politics and said that the NC’s autonomy concept and the PDP’s self-rule doctrine are two sides of one and same coin. He made these observations while addressing party workers at the party headquarters to take stock of the prevailing political situation in the state. He urged the party leaders and cadres across the state to educate the public opinion by exposing the pisive ideologies of NC and PDP and Congress’s support for an equally pisive 1975 Indira-Sheikh Abdullah accord and the acts of omission and commission committed by the ruling coalition and their failure to deliver on any front.BJP State President rejected the suggestions of NC and PDP that their respective demands would end unrest in the Valley and resolve regional tensions in the state and added that these demands, if accepted, would not undo what the Indian nation did in the state during the past 65 years and only also provoke protests in Jammu and Ladakh and in the refugee camps.
“Greater autonomy concept and self-rule doctrine are fundamentally bad, reactionary, retrograde and highly injurious to the vital interests of India and its people in Jammu & Kashmir. They are nothing but a replica of the two-nation theory that resulted in the partition of India in 1947 and consumed millions of lives. The BJP will defeat their demands,” said Jugal Kishore Sharma. Greater autonomy concept, like the self-rule doctrine of the PDP, is another charter of bondage for the people of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh, he also said, adding that it also means recognition of communalism and extremism, great concessions to terrorists and Pakistan and emergence of a system under which New Delhi will have no power whatsoever in the State of Jammu & Kashmir.
He told the party leaders that it is their national duty to work for the welfare of the people of the state, fight against the discriminatory policies of the NC-Congress coalition government and force the biased authorities to dispense justice to the people of Jammu province who have suffered immense political and economic losses, during all these 65 years of the state’s accession to India, at the hands of the discriminatory Kashmiri leadership and its supporters in Jammu province. “We have to work overtime to strengthen the BJP in the state and hands of its Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi to ensure the party’s victory in at least three Lok Sabha constituencies in the State,” he said. He warned that the next five months are very crucial for the party and “we have to make optimum use of this period by playing positive politics and people-centric role. All those present in the meeting in one voice reassured the party leadership that they would not leave any stone unturned to win the Lok Sabha and assembly elections on positive people and nation-centric planks.Earlier, Sharma visited Kol Kandoli Mandir in the morning to inspect the ongoing work of construction of a shed for the convenience of visiting pilgrims and also announced release of Rs. 1 lakh in addition to Rs. 3 lakh earlier given for the purpose. He also sanctioned Rs. 5 lakh for undertaking other works in Nagrota town related to development, laying / repairing of water pipes and fixing electric supply wires on poles. Besides, officials of PHE and PDD, he was accompanied by Subash Chander, Hem Raj, Dwarka Nath, Girdhari Lal, Tinku Pandit, Ganesh Dass and Koki.