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| BJP supports Ladakhis demand for UT, opposes statehood in Jammu | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Sept 3: There is something fundamentally wrong with the BJP, which sought and got votes in the 2014 Lok Sabha and assembly elections in the name of Jammu and which is now showing thumb to them in its desperate bid to please its new political masters in Kashmir and remain in power at whatever cost, even at the cost of the national interest.
On the contrary, the BJP has an altogether different point of view as far as Ladakh is concerned, notwithstanding the fact that the BJP could not win a single assembly seat from the region.
That the BJP has dual approach and that the BJP has little or no regard for the sensitivities of the people of Jammu region could be seen from what its spokesperson Virendra Gupta said on Friday while expressing his views on the demand in Ladakh for Union Territory status and demand in Jammu for separate Jammu State.
Virendra Gupta, whose Jammu Mukti Morcha/Jammu State Morcha fought for statehood for Jammu for more than 25 years since March 2, 1990 in his own style, said the "Government of India was not against the Ladakh MP's demand. "The BJP had won the Ladakh seat over the core issue of union territory status and it is a genuine demand," he was quoted as saying.
BJP MP from Ladakh Thupstan Chhewang only on August 27 submitted memorandum to the Prime Minister, Home Minister, the Defence Minister and BJP national president Amit Shah and demanded secession of Ladakh from Kashmir on "security reasons". His memorandum said that the grant of UT status, along with a separate legislative assembly, alone can safeguard the interests of the Ladakhis. The other organizations in Leh district have all supported the demand for UT status.
However, when it came to Jammu, Virendra was neither here nor there. He was just clueless and vague. He beat about the bush but made it a point that Jammu didn't matter for the BJP.
"As far as Jammu is concerned, the Union Finance Minister had, during his two visits to Jammu, emphasized on the BJP cadre underlining development in Jammu," he said, adding that "decentralization of power for Jammu was the primary concern and the Government of India should see into it".
Not only this, he further reportedly said: "As far as the political structure is concerned, the NDA does not advocate separate statehood for Jammu.
What Virendra Gupta said was just meaningless. It meant nothing when he said, "decentralization of power for Jammu was the primary concern and the Government of India should see into it".
That the BJP asked Virendra Gupta to oppose the statehood demand in Jammu was not without meaning.
The BJP wanted to tell the people of Jammu province that it had even made Virendra Gupta to fall in line and not speak a word that has the potential of annoying the Kashmiris and their leadership whose all political demands are outside the Indian Constitution.
All in all, it can be said that the BJP has sacrificed Jammu's interests for petty power. |
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