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Anti-national events in Delhi, Kashmir
BJP's double standards
2/13/2016 11:06:27 PM
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Feb 13: The J&K BJP wants stringent action against those who indulged in anti-national activities in Kashmir and Delhi on February 10. That day, anti-nationals organized an event at Jawaharlal Nehru University to glorify Afzal Guru, who was convicted in the Parliament terror attack case and was subsequently hanged and buried in Tihar Jail. The same day, many in Kashmir indulged in similar activities. Those who indulged in anti-national activities also demanded independence of Kashmir from India and raised pro-Pakistan slogans.
Indeed, both were despicable events and deserved a serious cognizance. That these events took place near the Indian Parliament and important institutions like the JNU and the Press Club of India were all the more disturbing. It was only natural that the entire nation got furious and spoke with one voice while demanding stringent action against the anti-nationals.
The BJP has no moral right to demand any action against the seditionists. For, it itself had flirted with undesirable elements in J&K. It hobnobbed with separatists like Sajad Lone before and after the assembly elections in J&K and ensured his induction in the state cabinet. He got berth in the state cabinet out of the BJP's quota. Sajad Lone is well known Kashmiri separatist, who also authored his nasty "Achievable Nationhood", which left none in any doubt that he stood for the separation of Jammu and Kashmir from India as well as Indian disintegration.
Even otherwise, the BJP has no right to talk about nationalism and the country's unity. For, the agenda of alliance that it drafted and finally approved was nothing but an agenda of subversion - an agenda that gave respectability to Pakistan and Kashmiri separatists. It clearly said that the BJP endorsed the Kashmiri view that J&K was a political problem that needed to be tackled politically. The newly-nominated president even went a step further when he said that the "BJP is prepared to go beyond the agenda of alliance".
The memory of what some top BJP leaders in the state and at the centre used to say about those who waved Pakistani and ISIS flags in Kashmir when the BJP itself was in power in the state is still fresh in the minds of the people. They used to attack the responsible Indian media and say that waving of Pakistan and IS flags was not a new phenomenon. They used to charge the Indian media with blowing things out of proportion.
And why the way, the BJP is asking whom to take action against the seditionists? The BJP is at the helm of affairs in Delhi and the state is under the Central rule. Where is the police? The J&K BJP cannot flirt with the separatists and demand action against anti-nationals at the same time. Its dual approach is unacceptable. It cannot fool the people any more. If it really wishes to prove its nationalistic credentials, it must says good bye to Sajad Lone and his ilk and withdraw immediately the agenda of alliance. Otherwise, no Indian would pay any heed to whatever it says.
Meanwhile, the pressure from below has forced the Union Home Ministry to act against the anti-nationals. The Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh himself talked to the Delhi Police Commissioner and asked him to act tough and book all those who organized anti-national events so that a stringent action could taken against them. On Friday, the Delhi police arrested the president of JNU students Union belonging to a Left party and barred eight students from studying. He was booked under the charge of sedition. Besides, the police also initiated action against those who organized anti-India event at the Press Club and booked SAR Geelani for sedition.
Now that the Union Government has finally acted against the anti-nationals who glorified such anti-nationals as Maqbool Bhat and Afzal Guru, it is also time to for it to act tough against the handful of seditionists in Kashmir like Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Yasin Malik and Shabbir Ahmad Shah who indulge in anti-state activities on perennial basis.
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