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| In J&K, RSS-BJP just powerless, helpless | | Politics of begging | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Feb 20: The so-called world's largest organization RSS and the BJP, which is ruling the country since May 2014 and is also part of the Jammu & Kashmir government since March 1, 2015, are just powerless and helpless in the state. They are so powerless that they can't even make their own government in the state to withdraw cases against those who protested against the decision of the Ghulam Nabi Azad-led coalition government to snatch from the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board (SASB) a small piece of land at Baltal in Kashmir in June 2008.
The land had been transferred to the SASB under the directions of the Jammu & Kashmir High Court on a temporary basis for creating some additional facilities for the Amarnath Yatris. But the Azad government under pressure from the Kashmir-based political parties, including the PDP and the NC, and separatist outfits took back the land from the Shrine Board. The result was an over two-month-long massive agitation in Jammu and other parts of the country. The state government was so vindictive that it filed FIRs against several Jammu youth. Ever since then, they have been suffering and fighting their cases.
Most significantly, the Amarnath Land Agitation was led by the RSS and BJP. It was backed to the hilt by all sections of the society. It was also the RSS-founded Amarnath Land Sangharsh Samiti which signed a truce with the state government in August 2008 that provided for the withdrawal of the cases against the Jammu protestors. Not one of them had raised anti-India slogan. Contrarily, all raised pro-India slogans with the protestors holding the national flag high.
It was hoped that the entry of the RSS' political organ, BJP, in the state government would lead to the withdrawal of FIRs against the Jammu agitators, but it didn't happen. However, pressure on them mounted this month when the Chief Minister granted amnesty to almost 10,000 dreaded stone-pelters, mostly over ground workers, in Kashmir. The Chief Minister made this announcement on the floor of the assembly during the just-concluded budget session. The decision to grant amnesty also had the backing of the Union Home Ministry.
The decision of the Union Home Minister and the Jammu & Kashmir Government to grant amnesty to stone-pelters in Kashmir had its impact on Jammu. Feeling the heat, the RSS and BJP leaders on Sunday met at Jammu to discuss the prevailing situation in the state. The coordination committee of the RSS and the BJP - apart from endorsing the decision of the Centre and the state to grant amnesty to stone-pelters, took up the issue of Jammu youth against whom the state government had filed FIRs way back in 2008.
Mercifully, the RSS and the BJP leaders instead of asking the state government to withdraw the cases against the Jammu youth only "stressed that the cases registered against some people of Jammu in land row agitation be withdrawn at once so that they are not harassed by police and other investigating agencies". The meeting, according to sources within the parivar, only "showed their concern that even after the lapse of almost a decade these cases have not been withdrawn by the government despite the fact that the same was promised by the then government with Sangarsh Samiti leaders who had spearheaded the Amarnath Land Agitation in 2008".
The approach that the RSS and the BJP on Sunday adopted clearly suggested that they are in the government only in name and that they have no other option except to indulge in politics of begging. No wonder the people of Jammu are cursing them and bemoaning their decision to vote for the BJP in 2014. |
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