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| RSS, BJP sacrifice Sharma, Seth to appease Kashmir | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Sept 23: A few days ago, BJP national spokesperson Sambit Patra made a very significant statement while participating in a TV debate. He said, "Those who can kill their ideology can kill anyone". It was not an off-the-cuff remark. What he said was based on his experience as BJP man. In fact, what he said was a message to others in the party or even in the RSS, who hold official or semi-official positions, not to cross the line by questioning their organizations or by defending what needed to be defended.
And what happened in Jammu & Kashmir on Tuesday vindicated Sambit Patra. The case in point is the manner in which Additional Advocate General (AAG) Vishal Sharma and Deputy Advocate General (DyAG) Parimoksh Seth were sacked from their respective posts. Indeed, they were booted out unceremoniously for no reason. Both Sharma and Seth belong to the Sangh Parivar. Vishal Sharma is son of senior VHP leader and Senior Advocate Leela Karan Sharma, who had also unsuccessfully contested the 2009 Lok Sabha election from Jammu-Poonch constituency. Parimoksh Seth is son of senior BJP leader from the RSS background Omkar Seth.
The only fault of Parimoksh Seth was that he had moved as a private citizen PIL in the High Court seeking implementation of all the laws which had banned cow slaughter and beef eating in Jammu & Kashmir decades ago. He didn't hold any semi-official position when he approached the High Court, which upheld his plea some 15 days ago and ordered the concerned officials to enforce the law of the land and bring to justice those who would violate it or ignore the High Court verdict on the issue that has pitted followers of one religion against the followers of another. He was appointed Dy Advocate General on the RSS-BJP recommendation. He had not committed any crime by approaching the High Court; he had simply appealed to the High Court to ensure that the law of the land was implemented in its letter and spirit - an action that led to his ouster from the office.
Similarly, Vishal Sharma didn't commit any wrong by interpreting the law as it was as Additional Advocate General. It was his constitutional duty to defend the law, but the PDP, which, like the Congress, the NC, the CPI-M, separatists, Kashmiri civil society groups and Kashmiri Mullahs and Moulvis, want to remove the ban on cow killing and beef eating, took an exception to the role that Sharma played to the best of his ability and as per the constitutional requirement. The result was that he too was removed from the position he occupied only a few weeks ago.
It must remain a matter of shame for the RSS-BJP which sacrificed their own young men to keep the PDP on their right side. What signal did they give? They gave the signal that the BJP ministers, MLAs and MLCs could vote for those private members' bills which seek to lift the age-old ban on bovine slaughter and beef eating. No one would buy the argument that the PDP sacked Sharma and Seth without taking the BJP into confidence. |
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