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| BJP unhappy with KPs? | | Mission 44+ | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 22: The BJP, which on June 23 adopted Mission 44+ for the 2014 crucial assembly elections, is, according to many insiders, "not happy with the Kashmiri Pandit community". Credible sources in the party inform that the "BJP leadership, which had expected that a couple of its candidates would win the assembly election in the Kashmir valley for the first time in 67 years, if the KP migrant voters would vote in strength for the BJP candidates in those constituencies in the Valley where the KP community had sizeable number of voters, has finally come to believe that it is the KP community that has spoiled its electoral chances in Kashmir".
Significantly, sources also told the Early Times that "a number of senior BJP leaders, who were not associated with the poll managers of the party, hold the party leadership responsible for discouraging the KP voters". "The BJP poll managers had disappointed the KP community by projecting a staunch supporter of Article 370 Hina Bhat as the party's face in Kashmir and this approach of the BJP discouraged and angered them to the extent that most of them decided to boycott the poll," told an insider on the condition of anonymity. There are cogent reasons to believe what this source told the Early Times. In fact, many KP voters shared this view with the Early Times when asked to explain why most of the KP voters didn't vote.
It is important to note that had all the KP migrant voters voted in the Habba Kadal Assembly constituency, the BJP candidate Moti Koul would have surely emerged victorious. Only 2817 out of a total of 16,710 KP voters exercised their right to vote in the constituency. The total number of votes polled in the Habbba Kadal constituency was 11,000. It clearly shows that the KP voters held themselves aloof from the poll process, thus upsetting the BJP's applecart.
It was not only in the Habba Kadal constituency that the KP voters didn't vote in good numbers; it happened during all the phases. For instance, in the Ganderbal and Bandipora districts, which went to the polls in the first phase of elections, only a little over 1000 out of a total of 3411 KP voters cast their votes. In other words, only about 30 per cent of the KP voters from these districts exercised their right to vote. Similarly, only 5258 out of a total of 17,015 registered KP migrant voters exercised their right to vote during the second phase of elections on December 2, when the voters in the Kashmir's nine assembly constituencies exercised their right to franchise. The poll percentage again was about 30 per cent as far as the KP electorate was concerned. Likewise, in the third phase of elections, the participation of the KP migrant voters was very low. Only 4717 out of 19,575 registered KP migrant voters voted in the three Kashmir districts of Baramulla, Pulwama and Budgam. The polling percentage as far as KP electorate was concerned was not even 20 per cent.
The BJP poll managers must sit up and discuss where they went wrong or why did they fail to inspire and motivate the KP community to vote in strength in the Valley. |
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