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| Even state BJP president was not prepared to release Vision Document | | No reference to OBCs | | Masood Malik
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 2: It was on November 27 that the J&K BJP released what it called its "Vision Document" for the 2014 Assembly election in Jammu. The BJP is the only party which did not release election manifesto, though, credible sources in the party say, the party had prepared it and got printed "400 copies of election manifesto". According to reliable sources, "there were many in the party who wanted their leadership to release election manifesto, but in a meeting of top party leaders, including BJP national president Amit Shah, who knows nothing about Jammu and Kashmir, took a decision to not release it".
"The party leadership committed a mistake by not releasing election manifesto. The party will suffer because the Vision Document was drafted to pamper fundamentalists in Kashmir and tell people of Jammu and Ladakh that the BJP, like the Congress, NC and other Kashmiri parties, they have to be part of the Kashmir-dominated system," sources further informed, adding that "the BJP has disappointed its staunch supporters by yielding under communal pressure from Kashmir". Congress leader and Minister in the outgoing Omar Abdullah-led coalition Government, Sham Lal Sharma, on Monday claimed that it was People's Conference chairman and separatist "Sajjad Lone who prepared Vision Document for the BJP".
Sources in the BJP on Monday made another startling revelation about the circumstances under which the Vision Document was released. "The state BJP president Jugal Kishore Sharma, who manipulated Nagrota Assembly seat for his brother Nand Kishore Sharma, was not prepared to release the Vision Document," a very credible source in the party revealed. The source said that "Sharma was not happy with those who prepared the Vision Document" and that "his complaint was that there was no reference to the problems of Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in the document". "I will not be party to the Vision Document release ceremony unless a change is made in the document by including a reference to the OBCs in it," the source said, and added that the "word OBCs was written by pen in a few printed copies of the Vision Document to pacify Jugal Kishore Sharma".
The OBCs constitute a substantial chunk of population in Jammu and Kashmir. According to one estimate, they constitute nearly 20 per cent population. The OBCs in Jammu and Kashmir, unlike their counterparts in the rest of the country, do not enjoy reservation. |
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