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| After ditching Jammu, BJP targets Shiv Sena | | Political dishonesty | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, July 26: The so-called nationalist and party with a difference, BJP, is essentially a party which believes in the dubious principle of use and throw. It is not dependable at all. It is neither committed to its ideology, nor has it any respect for the cardinal principles of coalition dharma. It has the temerity to ditch those who bring it to power and humiliate its own coalition partners. It takes no time in diluting or compromising its ideology for attaining power and it also ditches its coalition partners to promote its own selfish interests. Besides, it shamelessly indulges in double and tripple-speak to mislead and hoodwink its constituency and the nation itself.
A reference to just two examples would be enough to describe the nature of the BJP and the kind of leadership that today controls it. In 2014, for example, the BJP played with the sentiments of the neglected people of Jammu region and held out several promises to win the Assembly elections. The beguiled and misled people of Jammu region reposed full faith in the BJP and returned 25 BJP members to the assembly. It happened for the first time. Earlier, the BJP used to be a marginal outfit in the state with its leaders and MLAs flirting with the Kashmiri leadership for promoting their personal interests.
But when it became part of the government in Jammu & Kashmir in March 2015, it became clear to the people of Jammu region that it joined the coalition government after throwing to the wind its vision document and adopting an agenda of alliance that was patently Kashmir-centric, divisive, pro-Pakistan and pro-Hurriyat and out-and-out anti-Jammu, anti-Ladakh, anti-minorities, anti-refugees. Not only that, the BJP surrendered almost everything to Kashmir even before joining the government. It breached the faith of the people of Jammu region in the manner never witnessed in the political history of India. It handed over to Kashmir all the vital portfolios, further helped Kashmir establish its domination and hegemony over the state cabinet, state polity and state economy. Not only this, it agreed to accept all those suggestions of its coalition partner which had the potential of dividing Jammu into three parts on religious and ethnic lines. Besides, apart from handing over AIIMS to Kashmir through the agenda of alliance, the BJP disgraced Dogriyat and Ladakhiyat and gave prominent place to that Kashmiriyat that had resulted in the exodus of all the minority communities from Kashmir in early 1990 and that continues to stand on the Indian nerve. The worst part of the whole situation is the manner in which it has been defending the agenda of alliance and saying that it was for the first time that Jammu region got what was its due. How shameless it has turned! All this should establish that the BJP has no regard whatsoever even for those who voted en-block for it both in the Lok Sabha and Assembly elections.
The other example is what BJP national president Amit Shah said the other day about its future plans in Maharashtra and the way Shiv Sena chief, Udhav Thackeray, lambasted, taunted and ridiculed Amit Shah. Amit Shah had recently asked his party cadre to prepare to go solo in Maharashtra in future. It stung the Shiv Sena for obvious reasons. Shiv Sena president, Uddhav Thackeray, on Saturday taunted him saying that Shah will also talk about single party rule in Jammu and Kashmir. "I do not think it is wrong to talk about going solo. I believe he will talk about the same thing in Jammu and Kashmir. He definitely will…I also say that the Shiv Sena should come to power on its own now," Thackeray said in an interview to Sena MP Sanjay Raut in party mouthpiece 'Saamana'. Earlier, he had questioned the decision of the BJP to join hands with the PDP and accused the BJP of harming the nation's larger interest in the state.
"What can I do? It is surprising. I do not have personal enmity with anyone but what stand did you (BJP) have on PDP before (election)? How can you forget its style of politics? If Kashmir progresses, it is good. But bringing in a change does not mean giving the state a big financial package. People there should be turned back towards India," Thackeray said on July 23.
It is pertinent to mention here that the Shiv Sena entered into coalition with the BJP way back in 1989 and contested several elections together since then. It was only in 2014 that the BJP and Shiv Sena contested the assembly elections separately. However, after the elections, both the parties again joined hands and formed coalition government in Maharashtra. The Shiv Sena is also a part of the NDA. That Amit Shah asked his party cadres to go solo in Maharashtra only indicated his intention to ditch one of the BJP's oldest allies. And, this should further establish that the BJP is not true to its constituency as well as its allies. Remember, that it was because of the Shiv Sena that the BJP established its foothold in Maharashtra. |
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