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| BJP enjoying; NC, PDP playing hide & seek with each other | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 27: For the National Conference and the PDP the BJP is no longer a party of untouchables. For the BJP the PDP is neither a party of "Looteray Baap Beti" nor the National Conference an organization of "Looteray Baap Beta."
During the pre-poll campaign Prime Minister Narendra Modi was heard telling people that it was time to liberate the state of Jammu and Kashmir from corrupt "Baap Beta" (Dr Farooq and Omar Abdullah) and corrupt "Baap Beti" (Mufti Mohd. Sayeed and Mehbooba Mufti) for having "looted" the state.
And during the same campaign Omar Abdullah was heard saying that he had committed his life's biggest blunder by having joined the NDA Government in the centre. He would not conceal his assessment of the BJP when he would dub the saffron party as highly divisive. The PDP leadership saw in Modi and the BJP the ultimate danger to the survival of Article 370 that grants special status to the state of Jammu and Kashmir within the union of India.
While the PDP leaders reminded Modi and his party colleagues that neither the central Government nor the Parliament could abrogate Article 370, the NC leaders had cautioned Modi against any attempt at revoking or diluting the original spirit of Article 370 because once the special status was abrogated it would endanger the very instrument of accession.
For the BJP neither the PDP nor the NC leaders' show pro-separatists bias. It is all for sharing power in Jammu and Kashmir, thereby indicating clearly sharing of political power is more important than ideological differences.
The NC leadership outclassed the PDP by cultivating relations with the BJP leaders simply to ensure that the party led by Abdullahs is able to retain power. More important for the NC leaders was not only to retain power but to prevent the PDP from sharing power with the BJP. This is one argument.
Another argument, is that the NC leadership tried to create a situation in which the BJP-NC coalition Government was round the corner simply to motivate the PDP leadership to jump into the arena for wooing the BJP for sharing power with the Muftis. Possibly Omar Abdullah's statement that he would not make it easy for any party to form the Government was aimed at hooking the PDP for forming a coalition Government with the BJP which could act as a swan song for the PDP. It is so because the voters in the valley had totally rejected the BJP which was not able to win a single seat from the Kashmir province which has 46 Assembly constituencies.
The PDP leadership decided to play cool so that the NC leadership was the first to fall in the lap of the BJP which could prove counter productive for Abdullahs. This is evident when a section of senior NC leaders were not happy with the way Omar Abdullah travelled all the way to New Delhi for meeting the BJP president, Amit Shah.
While the PDP and the NC keep on playing hide and seek with each other the BJP seems to derive pleasure form keeping the NC and the PDP leadership guessing. Will the BJP retain its political luster if it joins hands with either the NC or the PDP for forming the Government when majority of people in the Jammu region berate the PDP and the NC for having fortified the level of regional discrimination ? Only future events will determine it.
Well the party, that accepts BJP's demand for chief ministerial post for the BJP, is likely to be accepted by the saffron party to be its partner in power. Well the BJP has every right to claim it as it has been given clear mandate from the Jammu region winning all the 25 seats that have gone in its bag. But the basic issue is whether the BJP has a suitable candidate who could occupy the Chief Minister's chair. There is none out of the lot elected to the Assembly.
And if the BJP can project any one he or she may not be a shade equal to the status and statesmanship of Mufti Mohd. Sayeed. The state of Jammu and Kashmir needs a chief Minister who could deliver goods, who could frame a policy that is bound to improve the political, security and economic atmosphere in the state. The Mufti is a tested leader, rather a tested Chief Minister. There is none from the BJP who has been tested as Chief Minister because the BJP never got a chance to form the Government.
Yes, with BJP having bagged 25 seats it has every right to form the Government in coalition with either the NC or the PDP. Once it does let it opt for a Deputy Chief Minister's post for the saffron party candidate and let the tallest figure from the Kashmir valley occupy the Chief Minister's chair. Whatever may be the shape and size of the coalition Government Jammu and Kashmir needs a stable and strong Government. |
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