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| BJP delegation call on visiting European delegation | | | Ear;ly Times Reporter
Jammu | Sep 26
A 4-member high level team of the State Unit of BJP, led by its President Ashok Khajuria and comprising Member National Executive Dr. Nirmal Singh, State General Secretary Shamsher Singh Manhas and BJP Election Cell Convenor Lalit Moza (Adv.) called on the visiting European Union delegation here last eveving and discussed t the ground situation prevailing in Jammu and Kashmir.
The BJP team also submitted a detailed note on the perception of the BJP on J&K to Luis Fillipe Castro Mendes, Chairman, European Union Delegation.
In its note the BJP said that European Union has consistently played a positive role in the resolution of the issues facing Jammu and Kashmir. In fact, it was the role of the European Union in 1994 at Geneva which forced Pakistan to withdraw its anti-India resolution on the so-called human rights violations in the State. The BJP places on record its appreciation of the fact that it was the European Union which presented an accurate picture of facts in 1994 at Geneva, asserting that Kashmir didn’t constitute the entire State of Jammu and Kashmir and that the State consisted of highly diverse population.
The note further said that BJP would like the European Union to once again take into consideration some of the stark realities in the State so that things are put in proper perspective.
The BJP would like you to underline the fact that the people of Jammu and Ladakh are conspicuous by their absence in Kashmir. Most of those who had some immovable property anywhere in Kashmir have already sold it or abandoned it and settled down permanently in Jammu or Ladakh or elsewhere in India. A few employees from Jammu and Ladakh, who used to hold certain positions in the government or semi-government departments and organizations in Kashmir prior to the eruption of militancy there in 1989, have either got themselves transferred to Jammu or Ladakh or have gone on a long leave. If there are some officials from Jammu and Ladakh still in the regional services of Kashmir, their number is not even one thousand out of a total of nearly three lakh employees. So is the story in the fields of trade, commerce, transport and industry.
It must be noted by the conflict-managers that these and several other such things have only created extreme form of inter-regional tensions and bitterness. In fact, while the people of Jammu and Ladakh consistently complain that “they are being treated as second class citizens by the Kashmiri leaders”, the Valley leaders always accuse the legislators of Jammu and Ladakh of hobnobbing with the Centre to bring down what they call their “legitimate governments” and foist “Delhi agents” on the State. In this context, they refer to the role of the legislators of Jammu and Ladakh which led to the fall of Sheikh Abdullah’s government in 1953 and 1977, Farooq Abdullah’s ministry in 1984 and the ouster of Gul Shah in 1986.
The reorganization of the State’s polity on a provincial basis would, it must be borne in mind by those interested in restoring peace and normality in the State, remove all negative trends and promote in each province sound politics based on purely democratic and economic issues. Such a positive step would not only meet the long-pending demand of the people of Jammu and Ladakh for political and economic empowerment and closer integration with India, but also in the words of the former President of India, R Venkataraman, enable New Delhi to “deal with Kashmir Valley as a separateentity”.
• The party would like to emphasize that the problem confronting Kashmir is communal in nature; that it is Kashmiri Sunnis, whose involvement in the secessionist movement is knee-deep, have been dominating the State’s polity and economy ever since 1947. The BJP is for a rational, national, democratic and secular solution to the problems afflicting the people of the State and not for a solution that recommends segregation of the State from India on religious grounds. In fact, the BJP is bitterly opposed to any solution that is based on religious considerations. In the 21st century, there is no place for communalism and religious fanaticism, the note added..
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