Rustam
Jammu, Aug 8: The other day, the NC condemned the PDP, the BJP and the JKNPP and dismissed the protagonists of division of Jammu and Kashmir into three states as anti-national. Interestingly, it spared the BSP. Why? The NC needs to make its position clear so that people understand why the NC has two yardsticks, one for the parties like the JKNPP, which has been demanding reorganization of the state and separate Chief Minister and separate Assembly for Jammu since years, and the BSP, which has not only started opposing Article 370 but also started demanding trifurcation of the state.
Only last week, the BSP national general secretary and Rajya Sabha MP, Narinder Kashyap, along with local BSP leaders, including the state BSP president Tulsi Das Langeh, addressed a press conference in Jammu and demanded trifurcation of the state, saying that his party stood for smaller states, that the BSP would move resolutions to this effect both in the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, that the party had already devised a strategy to achieve the objective and that it will take its movement to its logical conclusion.
Tulsi Das Langeh, on the other hand, demanded repeal of Article 370, saying that this Article had only empowered the Kashmiri ruling elite to deprive the people of the state, especially SC and OBC communities, of the rights which are available to these communities in the rest of the country. In other words, the BSP leader shared the view of the BJP as far as its stand on Article 370 was concerned and of the JKNPP as far the demand for the reorganization of the state was concerned.
It is strange that while the NC condemned the parties like the BJP and the JKNPP, it did not utter a word against the BSP. It has to explain as to why it has one yardstick for the BSP and another for the PDP, the BJP and the JKNPP, which just cannot be bracketed under one category. |
