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| No visible support for BJP's Mission 44+ in Kashmir | | Candidates fail to draw big crowds | | Javaid Naikoo
Early Times Report
srinagar, Nov 19: Dismal past and repeated statements about abrogation of Article 370 has put BJP in a tight spot in Kashmir so much so that the mission 44 + may remain unachieved. The BJP candidates compared to regional political parties have so far failed to pull crowd in their rallies.
Mission 44+ which is impossible without securing seats from Kashmir as well with Jammu and Ladakh regions of the state, BJP leaders which include National general secretary, Ram Madhav, MoS in PMO Dr Jitendra Singh and PS Gill who more often meet local leaders of the BJP in Kashmir, use all means and measures to fetch up some seats from Kashmir valley.
However, the much debated issue of Article 370 which BJP sold during Lok Sabha elections in Jammu region is playing spoil sport for BJP candidates campaigning in Kashmir these days. Kashmir which plays a key role in Government formation in the state has forced BJP leadership to eye migrant votes of Kashmiri Pandits in Habbakadal, Amirakadal and Khanyar in Srinagar District and volatile Sopore and Tral. However, according to experts despite election boycott call of separatists if only 5% of voting takes plays in these areas, migrant vote ratio which is not high in these areas would automatically come down.
As per figures available with Early Times during 2008 Assembly elections Amirakadal constituency, which saw a voter turnout of 14.98% BJP secured 149 votes, in Habbakadal, which saw a voter turnout of 11.62 %, the BJP secured only 671 votes.
In Tral where 48 % voter turnout was recorded, BJP secured 338 votes and in Khanyar where BJP is fielding its candidates for the first time direct contest is between PDP's Khursheed Alam and Ali Mohammad Sagar of NC and in Sopore if vote ratio remained the same with 19.95 % of 2008, BJP's migrant vote hopes would itself melt.
After Prime Minister, Narendra Modi raised the issue of abrogation of article 370 during his campaigning of Lok Sabha elections, BJP candidates who contested from Kashmir during the same elections had to face the brunt of Modi's slogan as from Anantnag, Srinagar and Baramulla Parliamentary constituencies BJP candidates only got 15,845 votes.
Pertinently there is rift in consensus among BJP leadership in which MoS in PMO Dr Jitendra Singh during his repeated visits to Kashmir said that if voted to power BJP would abrogate article 370, while as Union Cabinet Minister VK Singh, national general secretary Ram Madhav while going with BJP Kashmir candidate Hina Bhat confront the take of Dr Singh on article 370. |
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