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Mr Jitendra, people of Jammu are politically very mature
Fair deal for Jammu, BJP-style
6/30/2015 12:27:08 AM
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Jammu, June 29: For BJP, the people of Jammu region who voted for it enthusiastically and in a large numbers in the Lok Sabha and Assembly elections last year, are, it appears, just fools, as they, according to its leadership, cannot understand what it has been doing to the people of Jammu region since the last week of February this year to perpetuate Kashmiri stranglehold over them. The "thankless" and "ungrateful" BJP leadership feels that it could easily beguile the people of Jammu region by making such ridiculous statements as the "BJP…agreed to disagree on ideological issues and concentrate entire time, energy and focus on the larger issue of development, particularly equitable development of all the three regions of the State" and "justice and fair deal for Jammu …the foremost priority".
How else should one interpret what MoS in the PMO Jitendra Singh said the other day in Delhi while addressing a handful of blissfully ignorant activists of the Dogra Welfare Foundation, which appears to be an RSS-sponsored outfit? The DWF organized "Jammu Kashmir Sammelan" seemingly to remember Shyama Prasad Mookerjee and his contribution to the process of integration of Jammu & Kashmir to India.
His whole reflection of the commitment of the Parivar of which the BJP is a part was not just flawed but also completely misleading. It was a blend of lies and an attempt to convince the nation that the BJP had not deviated from the path charted by Mookerjee. It is hardly necessary to reflect on the political content as contained in the Agenda of Alliance. Suffice it to say that the Agenda of Alliance is a negation of what Mookerjee stood for, fought for and sacrificed his life for. The very fact that the Agenda of Alliance provided for maintenance of the existing politico-constitutional set-up based on Article 370 should lay bare the disparities between what the minister said and what lays enshrined in the Agenda of alliance and expose the double-speak of the BJP. Indeed, the BJP and the RSS-plant in the BJP Ram Madhav -- at the behest of his masters in the Parivar -- insulted, abused and ridiculed Mookerjee for the sake of power in Jammu & Kashmir. Those who have not read the Agenda of Alliance must go through it and see for themselves how systematically it undid all Mookerjee strove for and achieved through his supreme sacrifice in Srinagar on June 23, 1953. Friends and well-wishers of India will never forgive those in the BJP and RSS who "cheated" the country for a few insignificant berths in the State Cabinet.
The MoS in the PMO asserted that that the BJP stands for equitable development of all the three regions of the State and justice and fair deal for Jammu is its foremost priority. No one in Jammu region will be impressed by what he said. The reason is that what he said was just to the contrary.
That he didn't speak the truth can be seen from the fact that the share of Jammu region in the State Cabinet under the present dispensation of which the BJP is a part was reduced to less than 30 per cent. Kashmir got 12 berths and Jammu a paltry five. It happened for the first time in 67 years.
That Jammu region was rendered ineffective and was deprived of its due share in the governance of the state could also be seen from the fact that Kashmir got Home, Finance, Planning, General Administration Department, Revenue, Law and Parliamentary Affairs, Agriculture, Sericulture, Horticulture, Employment, Labour, Education, Tourism, Public Distribution System, Public Works, Science and Technology, to mention only a few, and Jammu was considered fit only for those departments which were, and are, always at the receiving end. It got Power Development Department, Public Health Engineering, Health, Transport, Industry and Forest. All these departments are in a shambles. None of them is in a position to cater to the needs of the people as they are in a very shape and as they do not get sufficient funds from the Finance and Planning Departments. Leave aside the Forest Department which has little to do with the day to day needs of the people.
That the BJP considered unfit the people of Jammu region to hold other positions in the government, semi-government and autonomous institutions and political department could also be seen from the fact that the positions of Advocate General, Chairperson of the State Commission for Women, Secretary to the Jammu & Kashmir Academy of Arts, culture and Languages and political advisor to the Chief Minister went to Kashmir with the people of Jammu regions being left high and dry and all this obviously happened with the connivance of the BJP, which talks about equitable development of all the three regions and principle of justice and fair play. There are reports that the Chairmen of Jammu & Kashmir Public Service Commission and State Accountability Commission are also likely to be from Kashmir.
All this should nail all the lies and establish beyond shadow of doubt that the BJP instead of appreciating the Jammu mandate has only subverted it. That's the reason the BJP is being looked down upon by one and all in Jammu region. When will the BJP leadership learn from the past mistakes and take steps to mollify its estranged constituency in Jammu region?
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