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| Separatists bowed before Mufti to stop BJP from emerging in Kashmir | | Behind the Veil | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 17: Ongoing Assembly elections in Kashmir have exposed the dual face of separatists who until recent past used all their means and resources to ensure election boycott to keep their provocative shops running.
Credible sources within separatist faction led by Shabir Shah and Nayeem Khan told Early Times that according to a pre-planned strategy separatists let lose their methodology of election boycott this time soon after they realized that BJP is eyeing Kashmir after gaining overwhelming support in Jammu and Ladakh regions.
Sources said that after BJP leadership officially started its activities in Kashmir and opened its offices in Srinagar, separatists started thinking differently. "BJP's proactive approach and its much hyped Mission 44 plus slogan and BJP leaders roping in new faces, and creating their lobbies in Kashmir made separatists believe that Saffron party is out to capture Kashmir, and calling for election boycott would mean that BJP would get good number of seats in the Valley. The growing influence of the BJP leaders in Kashmir and separatist turned mainstream politician Sajad Lone meeting the Prime Minister Narendra Modi left separatists option-less. They decided to shun their boycott politics and join hands with regional parties to keep BJP at bay. "Since it was felt that NC and Congress which were in coalition have lost their credibility among Kashmiris during the past six years, separatists reached on the conclusion that PDP led by Mufti Mohammad Sayeed is the only option to stop BJP from entering into Kashmir and without even informing Sayeed, separatists unanimously asked their cadres to vote for PDP in Kashmir," said a source. "BJP is seen a anti-Kashmir, anti Muslim party which can crush separatists in a jiffy. If party succeeds to form a government in JK with full majority it would change the ongoing political discourse in Kashmir. To stop BJP, separatists maintained silence and allowed people to vote," the source claimed.
Many noted journalists, social activists who until yesterday used to raise pro-Azadi slogans joined PDP to keep BJP at bay and prevent it from making inroads in the Valley.
Pertinently, the UJC Chief Syed Salahudin in his terminology of election boycott made some changes this time keeping and asked separatists to decide whether to boycott or not, some socio-religious factions too seeing BJP emergence in Kashmir made some controversial statements regarding election boycott with an intention to create a confusion and pave way for followers of such factions to vote instead boycott and it happened at a time when a clear message regarding elections would have mattered most for followers of such factions. |
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