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| Failed in Jammu, Bhim talks of unity among regional parties | | Politics of statements | | Rustam
JAMMU, Jan 18: Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party chief patron Bhim Singh was right when he on Friday had said that foreign relations and corruption remained missing in the much hyped Congress conclave at Talkatora Stadium, New Delhi, and that the Congress has no roadmap for the country and its people. He was right when he regretted that the "Congress party has not been able to spell out its attitude towards the reorganization of Jammu and Kashmir and necessity for amendments in the Criminal Laws, including that of the Constitution of India to take the nation towards 21st century". However, he exaggerated things when he described his outfit as vibrant, trustworthy and capable of meeting the needs of the country and its citizens.
His assertion that both the national parties have become irrelevant was not only an exaggeration but was also misleading. To make his point, he had said that the Delhi electorate defeated both the Congress and the BJP in the just-held Assembly elections. He did not say that the BJP won spectacular victories in the just-held Assembly elections in MP, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh and decimated Congress and all other parties and that it also emerged as the largest singe party in the 70-member Delhi Assembly by winning 32 seats, nine more than its 2008 tally. He also did not refer to the fate his own party's candidate met in the Delhi Assembly elections. Not only this, he also did not say a word on why his party remained a marginal outfit in Jammu and Kashmir despite the fact that it was formed in the 1980s as an alternative to parties like the Congress, BJP and the NC.
It would have been better had he given a true picture of facts about the failure of his own party in Jammu and acknowledged that he failed because of his inconsistencies and muddled thinking. His January 17 communication to regional parties and some leaders of the national parties urging them to sit together to discuss the national and international problems being faced by India ranging from its internal security to external dimensions was an exercise in futility and his suggestion that the "people of India are eager for a change (Parivartan) and this is the time when the secular, nationalist and a democratic leadership in the country to work out an alternative for which people are anxiously waiting" will not impress anyone. For, a party which failed to provide "vikalp" or click in the state in which it was formed cannot inspire the leadership of other regional parties, which have played more pro-active role than his own party that has consistently indulged in politics of statements. The Panthers Party failed in Jammu province because it never stuck to any stand it took from time to time on issues facing the people. For example, it adopted Agenda for Jammu in 2011, repeated the same in 2012 and 2013, but did nothing whatever to give any effect to it. Its agenda had promised a separate Assembly, a separate secretariat and so on for Jammu, but adopted a casual approach towards the goals it itself set. With the result, people dismissed the Panthers Party as a party of statements. Bhim Singh will do well to focus on Jammu problem, instead of thinking in terms of achieving the unachievable.
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