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| Agenda of alliance a 'visionary' document, says BJP | | Jammu in danger | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Feb 5: The BJP is, it seems, determined to kill and destroy Jammu and Ladakh and barter national interests in Jammu and Kashmir. How else should one interpret the nasty statement of the state BJP president, Sat Sharma, that the Agenda of Alliance "is a visionary document" and that "the coalition was formed on a common minimum programme with detailed deliberations over distribution of ministries".
It appears that Sat Sharma has, like other local BJP leaders, not read the Agenda of Alliance. Had he read it and also understood it, he would not have said what he said to further rub salt on the wounds of the people of Jammu province, Ladakhi people and other nationalists in the state.
What is this the Agenda of Alliance all about? What does it envisage? It envisages a regime that would not only preserve the special status of Jammu and Kashmir as it enjoys under Article 370 of the Indian Constitution but also helps the PDP to go beyond it and empowers the Jammu and Kashmir Government to facilitate a dialogue between India and Pakistan and also initiate discussions with Kashmiri separatists to resolve what the PDP terms as the "political problem".
In fact, the Agenda of Alliances wants for the Jammu and Kashmir Government plenipotentiary powers.
Besides, the Agenda of Alliance provides for the return of the NHPC-managed and controlled power projects in the state to Jammu and Kashmir Government, vacation of the pieces of land used by the Army for defence and training purposes, demilitarisation of the state in phases and withdrawal of such Acts as the Armed Forces Special powers Act and the Public safety Act.
Not just this, the Agenda of Alliance also seeks to divide Jammu province into three regions purely on religious and ethnic lines and undermine the distinct identity of this historical region, bar delimitation of the Assembly constituencies at least till 2035 to scuttle the age-old demand in Jammu for proper representation in the Assembly and absorb the internally-displaced Kashmiri Hindus into the existing "Kashmiri milieu".
Not just this, the Agenda of Alliance also humiliates the refugees from Pakistan. It doesn't grant them citizenship rights, it only insults them by saying it will take care of their "sustenance and livelihood".
The truth, in short, is that the Agenda of Alliance says many things and, if implemented in its original form, it will unsettle everything in the State leading to massive protests in Jammu province, Ladakh region and refugee camps in Jammu, which house several lakh victims of the politics of separatism, extreme form of communalism and radicalisation. The people of these two regions, unlike the PDP, do not consider the Agenda of Alliance an elixir to their life; they consider it a deadly poison and term it as a "dangerous document, "agenda of subversion", "agenda of capitulation", "a new charter of bondage", "another rivet in the chain of their slavery" and so on.
And this is the Agenda of Alliance the BJP terms as a "visionary document". Something is fundamentally wrong with the BJP and its think-tanks. The BJP will get decimated in Jammu and Ladakh and elsewhere in the country if it doesn't review its stand on the Agenda of Alliance. There should be no doubt about it. Meanwhile, the people of Jammu province are watching with vigilance all the activities and actions of the BJP. |
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