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| BJP cultivating separatists to open account in Kashmir? | | Resentment in Jammu | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, July 27: The one-on-one meeting between national BJP general secretary and incharge J&K JP Nadda and Kashmiri separatist, author of anti-India 'Achievable Nationhood' and chief of People’s Conference (PC) Sajjad Lone in Kashmir has not gone down well with the supporters of the BJP. Most of them have taken an exception to this controversial meeting. Nadda met with Lone at his residence last week and the meeting between the two was confirmed by none other than state BJP general secretary (organization) Ashok Koul. What transpired during the meeting between the two is still not known. Even Ashok Koul feigned ignorance about what was discussed between Nadda and Lone. Neither Nadda and Koul nor Lone has made public the purpose of the meeting, which evoked a sharp reaction in Jammu. Lone is the son of the slain Abdul Gani Lone and son-in-law of the founder of JKLF Ammanullah Khan. Sajjad Lone had contested the 2009 Lok Sabha election in Kashmir only to forfeit his security deposit. He did not lead even that Assembly segment that his father Abdul Gani Lone represented in the Assembly a couple of times. Abdul Gani Lone was a liberal Kashmiri leader. He had even opposed Article 370, saying its abrogation was must. Later on, he turned a separatist. He, like Mirwaiz Umar Farooq's father, was shot dead in the early 1990s by some unknown militants. Sajjad Lone's brother Bilal Lone is member of the APHC (Mirwaiz).
Kashmir-watchers have observed that the meeting between the BJP, which has declared 44+ seats as its goal for the upcoming assembly elections, and the PC leader was of "political nature" and both "discussed the possibility of pre-poll alliance between the two parties". "There could not be any other purpose," they have observed. They have also expressed "surprise" over the meeting, saying "they never expected that the BJP would go too far and flirt with separatists like Sajjad Lone hoping that its association with separatists would help it open its account in Kashmir". "The meeting between the two will harm the BJP in Jammu and Ladakh where the politics is different from that of Kashmir. They had voted for the BJP in the Lok Sabha election believing the saffron party would fight for them and neutralize the influence of separatists in Kashmir, they also said, adding "while the BJP is unlikely to win a single seat in Kashmir, it would lose many in Jammu". BJP has never won any assembly seat in Kashmir and Ladakh till date.
Early Times Reporter today interviewed many people in Jammu to know what they thought about the meeting. Almost everyone opposed the meeting between the two and opined that the "BJP is digging its own grave in Jammu by flirting with anti-India forces in Kashmir". "The BJP betrayed the people of Jammu and Ladakh by meeting Sajjad Lone," they said, and added that "this saffron party is not aware of the implications in Jammu and Ladakh of what it has started doing in Kashmir Valley". "It is in a self-destruction mode," one of them also said. The BJP needs to take the people of Jammu and Ladakh and explain why its top-ranking leader met Sajjad Lone, who "abuses India on a daily basis". |
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