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What happened to BJP's manifesto after all? 11/28/2014 11:52:57 PM Masood Malik Early Times Report JAMMU, Nov 28: In-charge of BJP in Jammu and Kashmir Avinash Rai Khana and state BJP president Jugal Sharma Thursday in response to queries from press persons said the "party would soon release its manifesto and clear all the doubts raised by them about the intentions of the party as well as its stand on Article 370". Many press persons grilled the BJP leaders, who released the "Vision Document" in a press conference and told them on their face that the BJP will "not release its manifesto" because it wanted to "get votes in Kashmir". They failed to answer even a single question. Khana and Sharma, who were clueless and appeared quite shaken, only cut a sorry figure and left the press conference in a huff. Interestingly, soon after the press conference was over, not one but three senior BJP leaders told the Early Times that "the BJP leaders told a lie when they said that the BJP would release its manifesto in three-four days". "The BJP has lost its way. It has abandoned its nationalist agenda. It considers votes more important than one-nation. It is not the BJP we worked for years. It is worse than the pseudo-secular Congress party. It will destroy Jammu and Ladakh and harm the minorities in the state in its bid to appease Kashmiris. We are helpless. No one listens to us," they told the Early Times. When asked about the reasons behind the party decision to not release its manifesto, they told the Early Times that the "BJP will not release it because its manifesto says that the BJP, if voted to power, will hold debate on Article 370 and abrogate it because it has caused harm to the people of state, change the name of the state from the State of Jammu & Kashmir to the State of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh, reduce the life of the assembly from 6 to 5 years, introduce all beneficial central laws to the state, retain Armed Forces Special Powers Act, adopt stringent anti-terror laws and so on". They also said that "the BJP decided not to release its election manifesto on November 19 during a meeting taken by BJP national president Amit Shah in Jammu as there was a view that the Manifesto, if released, will not be helpful for the party in Kashmir". It is important to note that the BJP had got election manifesto prepared and printed long time back, but the party could not release nor would it release it because the high command has "rejected it."   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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