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Secular Modi alienating nationalist constituency Worst form of appeasement 12/10/2014 11:54:54 PM Masood Malik Early Times Report Jammu, Dec 10: The BJP is committing one blunder after another in its desperate bid to appease those in Kashmir who do not consider Kashmiri Muslims part and parcel of national mainstream or who consider than a race apart. The BJP is committing blunders hoping that it will open its account in the Kashmir Valley in these assembly elections. On December 8, the BJP crossed all the lines to fulfill its ambition. PM Modi, who addressed an election rally in Srinagar, shocked everyone by not ending his election speech with the slogan of Bharat Mata Ki Jai or Vande Mataram. Incidentally, the election rally was not impressive. Narendra Modi addressed more than 150 election rallies across the country during the last 20 months or so. He also addressed two election rallies in Jammu in December 2013 and in April 2014 at Hiranagar to seek people's mandate. He would always end his speech with the slogan of Bharat Mata Ki Jai. Not just this, he used to urge the audience to raise this slogan loudly. Not only this. He also used to invoke the nationalist slogan of Vande Mataram and would also ask the audience to repeat the slogan loudly. But in Kashmir he refrained from raising these slogans. Perhaps, he, like other pseudo secularists, believed that those two slogans could further alienate Kashmiri Muslims or hurt their sentiments. The fact of the matter is that PM Modi has only alienated the nationalist constituency in the state by reiterating that he would take forward "his arty predecessor Atal Bihari Vajpayee' dream of 'Kashmiriyat, Insaniyat and Jamhooriat - (democracy, humanity and democracy)". "I am duty bound to realize that dream and move ahead within the ambit of Kashmiriyat, Insaniyat and Jamhooriat," he said. Significantly, this precisely was what he said while addressing an election rally at Jammu's Kishtwar on the eve of the first phase of election. There was nothing new in what Modi said in Kashmir and Jammu. It happened for the first time that a national leader talked about Kashmir and Kashmiris' so-called pain both in the valley as well as Jammu. His whole election campaign, as also the speeches delivered by other BJP leaders during the election campaign in the state during the ongoing election process have stung the nationalist constituency in the state. Congress minister Sham Lal Sharma only made a point when he on Tuesday dismissed the BJP as "Kashmir-centric" party and accused it of taking U-turn after U-turn to garner votes in Kashmir.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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