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| BJP takes steps to broaden support-base before crucial Lok Sabha election | | Ladakh, POJK, displaced K Hindus, Jats | | rustam
Jammu, Jan 23: The BJP, which has resolved to achieve its 272-plus mission in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections to dislodge the 10 Year-old Congress-led UPA Government at the centre, on January 22 took many definite steps to broaden its support-base in Jammu & Kashmir. Actually, the state unit of the BJP adopted that day a comprehensive political resolution at its Kathua meeting of executive committee, which made thirteen resolves. The most important resolves were 6.
It said that the BJP recognized the age-old demand of Ladakhis seeking Union Territory status for the region and that it will not only work for the grant of UT status to Ladakh but would also see to it that the Ladakhi territories, which have been under the legal occupation of Pakistan and China since decades, will be retrieved and re-integrated with the region so that the region is restored to its August 15, 1947 position.
Secondly, it resolved to intensify campaign with a view to generating a positive debate on Article 370 so that the public itself demands its abrogation. It snubbed the supporters of Article 370 for not joining the debate as suggested by party PM candidate Narendra Modi on December 1st during the Lalkar Rally. "It resolves to hold a holistic debate on Article 370 so that it is abrogated," it said, thus challenging those who had said that the party diluted its stand on Article 370.
Thirdly, it resolved to unleash a relentless campaign to ensure that refugees from POJK, whose number is almost one million and who have been suffering since 1947, when they left their homes and hearts and migrated to Jammu province and other places, get eight reserved seats out of the 24 reserved for POJK and Gilgit-Baltistan region. Refugees from POJK have been - apart from demanding due compensation for the properties they left behind in 1947 - demanding representation in the Assembly saying since they are residing in the Jammu province and since 24 seats have been reserved in the Constitution for the area that is under the illegal occupation of Pakistan, they be given representation in the assembly by earmarking seats for them. Fourthly, It resolved to obtain due representation for the displaced Kashmiri Hindus and Sikhs. It said that they deserved a minimum of three seats in the assembly. More importantly, it said these three seats be reserved for them out of 46 seats into which the Kashmir Valley has been territorially divided. The displaced Kashmiri Hindus had been demanding reservation in the assembly since the early 1990 so that their representatives in the assembly could highlight the problems and grievances of the community and become part of legislative processes.
The two other important resolves included the decision to make common cause with the Jat community and OBCs, which constitute almost 20 per cent of the state's population, and reiteration of its age-old stand that it will work with single-minded devotion to achieve for the refugees from West Pakistan full citizenship rights. In other words, it resolved to obtain reservation for the Jat community, which is important social group in Jammu province, and gave unstinted support to the refugees from West Pakistan. Not just this, it also talked of reservation for SCs, STs, including Gaddis, Sippis and Kohlis. The fact is that the BJP presented to the people across the state a very important and inducing political agenda. |
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