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| Kashmir BJP shows thumb to Jammu BJP | | Beef controversy | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Sept 15: There were reports that the J&K BJP will take action against Khursheed Ahmad Malik, who unsuccessfully contested the 2014 assembly elections from Kokernag (Kashmir). This fanatic had said that he will invite Hindus and Muslims to a party where beef would be served to the Muslims and vegetarian food to his Hindu guests. His statement had evoked response on expected lines in the Kashmir valley and Jammu region.
In Kashmir, all the so-called mainstream political parties, including the NC, appreciated Malik for his outrageous stand. In Jammu, his statement evoked a very strong reaction. The Jammu-based state-level leadership fielded MLC Ramesh Arora to assuage the hurt sentiments of the Hindus. He said the BJP would not only force the State Government (of which the BJP is the B-team) to enforce the law of the land, but also suggested that the party could initiate action against those BJP men in Kashmir who made provocative and unwarranted statements following the issuance of directions by the State High Court that ban on beef eating in the State must be enforced. Arora is the same BJP leader who during the election in Kashmir had said that "a Muslim vote for the BJP would mean the rise of a situation under which Islam would further flourish in the State" and that "it would create an environment that would make Armed Forces Special Powers Act redundant".
That no Kashmiri BJP leader would listen to the party high command was a foregone conclusion, for it was the general belief in Jammu that the BJP never meant what it said through Arora. And that no BJP leader in Kashmir attaches any importance to the BJP headquarters in Jammu became clear on Monday, when Malik insisted that he would host a beef party and invited both Muslims and Hindus for the party to strengthen secularism in the State. He said he was throwing a beef party on Monday to "send a message of religious tolerance".
"I have decided to organize a party for both Hindus and Muslims. The Muslims will be served beef and the Hindus an exclusively vegetarian meal," Malik was quoted as saying by Indian Express. "This party will send a message of religious tolerance, brotherhood and secularism. He is a Muslim and that he can't compromise on his religious faith, not at all," he further said, and added that he "joined BJP to empower my people, especially Muslims".
When asked whether his decision had the approval of the party, the determined Malik said: "Do I have to ask my partymen whether I should go to a mosque or not? It has nothing to do with my party".
The fact of the matter is that he showed his thumb to the BJP leadership and held his ground firmly, thus telling the BJP leadership in Jammu that he joined the BJP for promoting the Kashmiri agenda and ideology and the BJP was free to take any action against him. There are potent reasons to believe that the BJP leadership would not take any action against him. The belief stems from what the BJP Ministers, BJP PMs, BJP MLAs, BJP MLCs and the BJP as a party have done after March 1, 2015, the day the PDP-PDP formed coalition Government in J&K, much against the wishes of patriotic sections of society as well as many senior BJP leaders. |
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