Neha
JAMMU, Apr 22: On Monday, National Conference (NC) president and Union Minister for Renewable Energy Farooq Abdullah lambasted the BJP and charged it with nurturing a "mindset" which wants to create a "new Pakistan". "I think this mindset created Pakistan and I think they (BJP) now want to create a new Pakistan," he said, adding "if they continue with this mindset then it will be difficult for them to save Hindustan," he told reporters on the sidelines of an election rally in Budgam district.
Farooq Abdullah did cross the Lakshman Rekha by saying what he said about the BJP, which is all set to dislodge the Congress-led UPA Government in May and assume power at the Centre. Political pundits, pollsters, and even the bitter critics of the BJP have finally come to the conclusion that the BJP's march towards New Delhi is unstoppable and that there is the possibility of the BJP and its allies winning more than 300 seats in the 543-member House with the BJP on its own winning the required number of seats.
The NC president says that the BJP is nurturing a mindset that has the potential of causing another communal partition, but he doesn't say that India was divided on the basis of two-nation theory in August 1947, when the Congress and the Muslim League were the two major players in British India and the BJP didn't exist. It was the conspiracy hatched by the Congress and the League against India and the result was not only the communal partition of the country and creation of Muslim Pakistan but also bloodshed and displacement of population on an unprecedented scale. The Muslim League professed and advocated an ideology which is no different from that of the NC.
Before 1947, the Muslim League's divisive ideology got support from the Congress and the support was sometimes overt and sometimes covert and after 1947, it is the parties like the NC which have been getting support of the Congress party. The only difference is that before 1947, the Congress was known as the Indian National Congress, and after 1947, its nomenclature was changed a number of times. For years, it was called Congress (Indira) and it is being described as Sonia Congress for more than a decade now.
One can criticize the BJP and its policies. In fact, criticism is a must as ours is a democratic polity and parliamentary form of government and the criticism should be based on sound politics based on democratic and economic issues, which has not been happening in this election. But, regrettably, there are Abdullahs and Abdullahs in the country who have been leaving no stone unturned to polarize voters and create hatred between communities and social groups. Take, for example, Farooq Abdullah. He and the party that he controls have all through promoted communal politics and separatism, based on religious fanaticism. He and his party have all along condemned the Indian Constitution, Indian laws, Indian institutions and everything Indian, minus Indian rupees. He and his party have consistently denounced the Indian Constitution as anti-Kashmir and the presence of Indian Army in Kashmir as unwarranted. In 1990, Farooq Abdullah even went to the extent of urging the Kashmiri youth to crossover to Pakistan to undergo arms training to fight out India. And what about Omar Abdullah? He has repeatedly questioned the political status of Jammu & Kashmir and condemned the Army and the AFSPA on innumerable occasions.
Not just this, the Abdullahs and their party, in collaboration with the Congress, have muddied the Indian waters in Kashmir and rendered the people of Jammu and Ladakh ineffective and unreal for all practical purposes and that they have discriminated against the people of these two regions to the extent that the oppressed and suppressed people have been demanding trifurcation/reorganization of the state to obtain freedom from Kashmiri leadership. As for the internally-displaced Kashmiri Hindus, they have been demanding bifurcation of the Valley and creation of separate Homeland invested with UT status.
The truth, in short, is that it the NC leadership whose mindset has all the potential of create 1947-like situation in the state. As for the BJP, it considers India first, it believes in a policy that doesn't discriminate between people on the ground of caste and creed -- justice for all and appeasement to none --, abrogation of Article 370, Uniform Civil Code, nationalism, patriotism and Indianness. Farooq Abdullah would do well to reform himself and his party. It is a must because the people are fed up with their regressive, intolerant and divisive ideology.
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