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| BJP asks Cong to snap ties with PDP | | | EARLY TIMES REPORTER
JAMMU | AUGUST 17
The State BJP vice-president and spokesperson Prof. Hari Om today strongly urged the ruling Congress to snap its political ties with the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) as it is consistently denouncing the Indian Constitution and endorsing the Pakistani demand for self-rule in and demilitarization of Jammu and Kashmir. He said the BJP is of the considered view that the Congress’s alliance with the PDP, which has no love lost for the democratic, secular and pluralistic Indian Constitution and which has been, like the Valley-based separatists, loudly singing the Pakistani song, is fraught with dangerous consequences. How can there be any truck between the Congress and the PDP, which have been expressing diamatrically opposite views on the state’s political future?, asked the BJP spokesman.
Commenting on the Hurriyat Conference chief Mirwaiz Omar Farooq’s observation that the “United Nations resolutions on Kashmir issue provide a legal framework”, Prof. Hari Om asked the Mirwaiz to first read the said resolutions very carefully and then comment on them. He said such an exercise would help him understan what exactly the UN resolutions on the Kashmir issue envisage. He reminded the Hurriyat chief that UN Resolutions require Pakistan to vacate all the illegally-occupied areas of Jammu and Kashmir, including PoK and Gilgit-Baltistan, and entitle India to station its own troops in those areas for maintaing law and order. In other words, the UN Resolutions , asserted Prof. Hari Om, implicitely and explicitely recognise the Indian sovereignty over the State as it existed on August 15, 1947. He also asked the Hurriyat chief to explain what he thinks about the state’s Aksai Chin area, which Pakistan ceded to China decades ago.
Regarding the Panthers Party’s provocative proposal to organize a week-long Jashan-e-Jammu to celebrate the decision of the ruling coalition to create four districts each in Kashmir and Jammu and increase 25 per cent assembly seats each in these two provinces, Prof. Hari Om bemoaned the dubious role of the Panthers Party. He said nothing could be more unfortunate for Jammu than that the Panthers Party should think in terms of organizing Jashan-e-Jammu to celebrate the ill-designed move of the Congress and its alliance partners to harm further the Jammu’s legitimate interests and strengthen the Valley’s domination over this region. The Panthers Party would be only celebrating the defeat of Jammu if it goes ahead with its proposed programme, said the BJP spokesperson. |
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