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Early Times Report
Jammu, June 20: It's true that the parties, which have little or no support-base left in Jammu region like the Congress and the National Conference, were not really happy with the decision of the AIIMS Coordination Committee (ACC) to withdraw the 72-hour-long bandh call and call off its six-day-old chain hunger strike following the written assurance it got from Deputy Chief Minister on June 18. These parties wanted the ACC to go ahead with its bandh call for obvious reasons and it was fair.
After all, the Congress and the NC had suffered massive defeats in the Assembly elections. Out-of-power political parties do act in the manner the Congress and the NC acted during the days of the ACC-sponsored struggle to recapture their lost space. (The struggle continues unabated even today.) Hence, the Congress and the NC were within their right to do what they did by offering their overt and covert support to the ACC - support that made the desperate, frightened and roundly condemned BJP to allege that the ACC was the brainchild of the Congress and so on, which was not the case. The ACC is a non-political group that enjoys universal support in the neglected Jammu region. There should be no doubt about it. The misinformation campaign the BJP launched to lower the position of the ACC by dubbing it an agent or whatever of the Congress or the NC was nothing but a manifestation of its frustration, nervousness and belief that it had become increasingly unpopular in Jammu region.
Notwithstanding their disapproval of the ACC's decision to withdraw the bandh call and call off the chain hunger strike, their anger was directed wholly and solely towards the BJP. The NC condemned the BJP for its contradictory stands and statements on the issue of AIIMS. The NC didn't utter a word against the AIIMS readership; it only lambasted the BJP and asked it to come out of the government if it was incompetent or incapable or powerless to deliver. The attack of the NC against the BJP was scathing. That it didn't say a word against the ACC only suggested its political maturity and recognition of the fact that it would be politically suicidal to criticize the AIIMS which now symbolizes the Jammu sentiment and the Jammu hope. The Congress also did the same. It didn't criticize the ACC; it only criticized the BJP, which is sharing political power in J&K.
The Panthers Party also attacked the BJP from right and left and accused it of "betraying Jammu". It charged the BJP with betraying the Jammu cause on June 18, the day the bandh call was withdrawn, and on Friday, the day nearly 500 activists of the party organized a march towards the Parliament in support of the demand in Jammu for the establishment of AIIMS in Jammu.
That neither the NC nor the Congress and the Panthers Party spoke against the ACC leadership and that they in one voice condemned the BJP speaks for itself. The BJP leadership must sit up to find why the BJP has become an object of contempt and ridicule in such a short span of time. However, it is difficult to say that the BJP would deviate from the path it has been treading since March 1 because power has gone into the head of those who never ever thought that they would also be in power in J&K. The BJP commit a blunder if it continues to behave like it behaved during the past 110 days. |
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