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| Lathis for non-local NIT students, nodal officers for Kashmiri students | | Nationalism, BJP-style | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Apr 13: Is the BJP a truly nationalist party? What is its ideology? These are the two straight questions the people across the country in general and Jammu, an epicenter of Indian nationalism, are asking these days. They are asking these straight and pertinent questions in the aftermath of gory and frightening events which took place on the campus of the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Srinagar between March 31 and April 11. On March 31, local Kashmiri students celebrated the defeat of India in cricket match by raising pro-Pakistan and anti-India slogans. And on April 11, more than 1200 brutalized, lathi-charged, tear-gassed and persecuted nationalist non-local students quit Srinagar to save their lives after the Narendra Modi-led Government at the Centre failed to establish rule of law in Kashmir by isolating and reining in anti-nations in and outside the campus. On April 12, they in Jammu protested the police atrocities on them and the hostile attitude of the authorities in New Delhi and hostile attitude of the BJP with national news channels also questioning the very approach of the BJP and the Central Government towards what had been happening in Kashmir and what was done by the seditionists and communalists in the Valley to the nationalist non-local students, who countered the Kashmiri separatism by raising Bharat Mata Ki Jai slogan and waving the national tricolour overlooking threat to their life and limb.
What has provoked the nationalists in Jammu and across the nation to ask these questions is not just the exodus of the hapless, abandoned non-local students of the NIT Srinagar. What provoked them all the more is the different yardstick the BJP-controlled Union Home Ministry applied on April 11 to reassure the Kashmiri students studying outside the Valley - the day when almost all the non-local NIT Srinagar students vacated Srinagar.
That day, the Union Home Ministry asked a number of States to appoint a special Nodal Officer each for addressing issues of Kashmiri students studying in their respective States in the wake of alleged attacks on them in campuses.
The States which were asked to appoint special nodal officer for Kashmiri students include Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Haryana, Punjab, Maharashtra and Karnataka.
"There have been reports of attacks on and misbehaviour with Kashmiri students studying in different States. Appointment of nodal officer for Kashmiri students will give a sense of security and comfort to them," a Home Ministry official said.
A group of Kashmiri students was allegedly assaulted in a dental college in Jodhpur last week in an alleged backlash after the unrest at National Institute of Technology (NIT) in Srinagar. Several students were injured in the incident.
The Home Ministry's move came amidst the ongoing row at the NIT which started after clashes occurred following India's defeat against West Indies in the World Cup T20 semi-final match.
Two group of students, one from Kashmir and another from other States, fought after some students burst crackers after India's defeat, leading to the shut-down of the institute.
In the meantime, Delhi Lt Governor Najeeb Jung has appointed Delhi Police's Special Commissioner (Crime) Taj Hasan as the special nodal officer for addressing Kashmiri students' issues.
What does all this show? It shows that while the Union Home Ministry had no place in its scheme of things for the brutalized non-local students of the NIT Srinagar, it took a serious cognizance of what happened to some Kashmiri students in Rajasthan and so on. It is this that has infuriated nationalists across the country, including Jammu, and the result is the questions like "Is the BJP a truly nationalist party?" and "What is its ideology?" |
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