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| BJP seeking to achieve the unachievable | | PM Modi's Kashmir rally | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Oct 29: If all goes well, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address a public rally in Srinagar on November 7. It is patron of PDP and J&K CM Mufti Sayeed who has persuaded him to address a joint-rally of PDP and BJP workers. The CM has been commending the PM on a daily basis and claiming that he forged an alliance with the BJP to change the political destiny of the state.
Justifying his alliance with BJP and describing it as a "great opportunity that has come his way to change the destiny of the people of the state," he says that he is committed to "lay a strong base for building a new J&K, where peace and prosperity go hand-in-hand".
On Wednesday, he again said the same thing to justify his alliance with the BJP during an official function, organized in Srinagar. He said: "I have no personal agenda and don't enter into any deals. History has given me an opportunity to change the course of the state and I have taken up this challenge with both hands…People have waited patiently since 1947 for a political process that promises them a better and prosperous tomorrow. We have gone through tough times. The people need succour which my government vows to provide".
It is obvious that the CM is very clear in his approach. He entered into an alliance with the BJP with a purpose and he is striving hard to achieve the desired goal and, hence, his insistence that PM Modi should address a rally at Srinagar. The PM may announce a huge financial package to help the Mufti government meet the state's financial needs and to provide relief to the 2014 flood victims. So, there are good reasons for the PDP to put up a good show to impress the PM.
Surprisingly, the state BJP leadership under the direction and supervision of certain BJP national leaders, including BJP national general secretary Ram Madhav, one of the chief architects of the fundamentally anti-Jammu agenda of alliance, is also putting in all efforts to make the Srinagar rally a grand success. Reports suggest that Ram Madhav himself will visit Srinagar for three days to ensure a large scale participation of BJP workers in the scheduled rally. Insiders also inform that "all the BJP ministers have been directed to stay put in Srinagar and the local BJP leadership has also planned to export BJP workers from Jammu to Srinagar". The fact is that the state unit of the BJP under instructions from leaders like Ram Madhav is leaving no stone unturned to make the rally a great success.
Insiders also inform that "one of the objectives of the BJP is to create for itself a constituency in Kashmir, which is unlikely to happen". They say "the BJP pumped crores of rupees into Kashmir during the last assembly elections hoping that it would win a seat or two from the Valley, but the people of Kashmir rejected the party and ensured that they lost their security deposits" and expressed the view that "the Srinagar rally will also not help the BJP make any inroads in the Valley, as the Kashmiri leadership has convinced the people of the Valley that the BJP is not their friend". One senior BJP leader even went to the extent of asserting that the "BJP is striving to achieve the unachievable" and that "the BJP is weakening itself in Jammu region in its bid to win over Kashmir, which shall never happen". "The BJP has already become very unpopular in Jammu region by becoming part of the government. It will further annoy the people of Jammu region by investing more and more in Kashmir where the BJP is simply looked down upon," he further informed.
The refrain of these insiders plus this senior BJP leader is that the BJP is indulging in exercises of self-deception. |
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