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Jammu
BJP State President Ashok Khajuria said here today that his party stands for the re-organization of the state on provincial basis. He further said that the BJP wants the Union government to grant three definite political instruments one each for Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh invested with legislative, administrative and financial powers as it is the firm belief of the party that such an approach alone could help the people of Jammu to meet their specific needs and compulsions. He said BJP would not accept anything short of this and added that the BJP also favours a scheme that not only induces the internally-displaced Kashmiri Pandits to go back to their land of vitasta but also enables them to lead a dignified life under a dispensation that is acceptable to them.
Ashok Khajuria expressed these views while reacting to the idea of the communal division of the state as mooted by Peoples’ Conference chief Sajjad Lone obviously at the instance of the UPA government, which appears determined to accomodate Muslim Communalism and hit at the very secular roots of the Indian polity. He said BJP will under no situation allow New Delhi to either accept the Pakistan President’s 4-point communal and divisive formula or give effect to any such solution as is aimed at pitting the followers of one religion against the other or dividing the state on sectarian lines. He asserted that this is the BJP’s solemn pledge to the nation and what the BJP says it means that.
Ashok Khajuria said that the BJP is not at all surprised over Sajjad Lone’s suggestion that the state be trifurcated into Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh states and that the Muslim-majority areas of Jammu and Ladakh be given the option of joining Kashmir. What Sajjad Lone has, infact, suggested is what the National Conference has all along stood for and what Chief Information Commissioner Wajahat Habibullah, at the behest of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, has suggested to surmount the so-called Kashmir problem. The BJP is to the point when it dismisses outright Sajjad Lone’s suggestion ofcommunal partition of the state and Wajahat Habibullah’s identical proposal, he has been asked by the Prime Minister to submit to the Chairman of working group on centre—State Relations Justice Sageer Ahmad. What they have suggested is nothing but the idea of carving out Greater Kashmir comprising Muslim-majority Kashmir and the Muslim-majority areas of Jammu and Ladakh regions.
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