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| Frightened NC communalizing atmosphere | | Modi's visit to Jammu | | Rustan
Jammu, Nov 26: The frightened National Conference (NC), which has nothing credible to put in the political market for sale, has unleashed a misinformation campaign against the BJP and its Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi. Narendra Modi is visiting Jammu on December 1 to address the biggest public meeting ever held in the city of temples by any political party. The campaign is being spearheaded by none other than NC working president and Chief Minister Omar Abdullah. He crossed all the lines on Monday after laying the foundation of Sangar Bridge over river Tawi in Nagrota Assembly segment. "People should be cautious of the attempts taken by a particular political party (read BJP) to create communal tension dividing them in the name of religion and region. The rally of December 1 announced by BJP in Jammu is aimed at this target," he said conveniently withholding the truth that it is the NC that has in collaboration with the Congress communalized the whole polity and promoted to the extent possible separatist and anti-India politics in Kashmir. It is the NC and its coalition partner Congress which have all along played dirty games in Jammu & Kashmir to drive the Kashmiri Muslims away from the national mainstream, create schism in the society, pit one section against the other, render the people of Jammu and Ladakh ineffective and unreal for all practical purposes and undermine the Indian unity, integrity and sovereignty for vote-bank politics and enjoy political power.
And what were the arguments he advanced to tarnish the image of the BJP and Narendra Modi? "The BJP will open its old Pandora's Box at Sunday's rally (of Narendra Modi)…The BJP leaders will talk of abrogation of Article 370, discrimination between Kashmir and Jammu and other emotional issues. They will criticize all leaders right from Jawaharlal Nehru to Farooq Abdullah for the political situation in the State in order to create hatred between the Hindus and the Muslims…Between Kashmir and Jammu for vote bank politics.. This has been their trait always," Omar Abdullah, an ardent believer in the concept of greater autonomy, said. "BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi's rally, scheduled here for December 1, is aimed at creating communal tension and divide people in the name of religion and region to polarize the society and gain political mileage ahead of
Lok Sabha and Assembly elections," he also argued. One doesn't know what Narendra Modi would say in Jammu on December 1. But let's accept for the sake of argument that Narendra Modi would talk about Article 370 and discrimination between Kashmir and Jammu.
What is wrong if he rakes up these two issues which are very important for the people of Jammu and Ladakh as well as for the 1.5 million refugees? Article 370 is anti-democratic, anti-people and divisive and it must be opposed tooth and nail by all those who believe in secular values, democratic ethos, people's empowerment and unity and integrity of the country. Narendra Modi needs to lambaste Nehru and the NC who conspired against the people of the state and country as a whole by treating Jammu & Kashmir differently. Similarly, there is nothing wrong if the BJP leader talks about the injustices perpetrated by the NC and the Congress on the people of Jammu and Ladakh. People of Jammu and Ladakh have suffered immense political, economic and social losses at the hands of the successive Kashmiri-dominated and Valley-centric governments in the state during all these 65 years of independence.
And the BJP leader would be within his rights if he takes on Nehru, Sheikh Abdullah, his son Farooq Abdullah and his son Omar Abdullah who have caused irreparable damage to the state polity as well as Indian polity by evolving and pursing communal policies in the state. Omar Abdullah, who plays communal and divisive politics and whose government perpetrates all sorts of injustices on the people of Jammu and Ladakh, would do well to refrain from using the kind of language that he used yesterday for no reason. It is not Narendra Modi who is communal. It is the Nc and similar other Kashmir-based outfits and the so-called Indian National Congress which could legitimately be charged with playing communal cards in the state to make sure that there is no unity among the regions and the communities and castes. |
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