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BJP only party that alienates its constituency
Jammu on the boil
4/1/2018 12:12:53 AM
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Mar 31: The BJP is the only party in the country which compromises its ideology for the sake of power and pelf in no time and in a most brazen manner and still claims day-in and day-out that "it is a party with a difference". The BJP started fooling its constituency as early as in 1980, when the so-called nationalist Sangh Parivar allowed decimation of the Bharatiya Jan Sangh of Shyama Prasad Mookerjee and Prof Balraj Madhok, to establish BJP. In his first presidential speech, the first president of the BJP Atal Bihari Vajpayee made quite clear that the BJP was not Jan Sangh. That was a clear indication that the BJP would tread a path different from the one charted by SP Mookerjee and Balraj Madhok.
That the BJP was concerned more with power and pelf and not with the ideology became clear when the BJP formed a ragtag National Democratic Alliance (NDA) to capture power at the centre in 1998. It got power but after abandoning its core ideology - Article 370, Ram temple and UCC - and established that it could go to any extent to achieve power.
Ever since then, the BJP has been alienating its core constituency, notwithstanding the fact that it got a massive mandate in 2014 - 282 seats. The BJP won not because it was popular; it won because the Congress and the Congress-led UPA had become thoroughly unpopular. Their secularism had alienated the majority community to the extent that it decimated no less than 13 parties, including the BSP, and rendered the Congress ineffective as it could win only 44 seats.
In Jammu, also the BJP created a history of sorts by winning 25 out of 37 seats in the assembly. It contested on the nation-centric, Jammu-centric and Ladakh-centric planks and sought and got a massive mandate against the "secular" Congress, pro-self-rule PDP and pro-autonomy NC. All hoped that that the BJP would play the role of an effective opposition in the state given the baneful influence the politics of communalism and separatism had created and given the fact that the NC, the PDP and the Congress had destroyed Jammu politically, economically, socially and culturally. But it was not to be. It shocked, dumb-founded and alarmed its constituency and joined hands with the PDP after throwing lock, stock and barrel its ideology like it had done in the 90s under Vajpayee-Advani supported to the hilt by the RSS. In fact, the BJP bartered Jammu and Ladakh for the sake of "sham power" as the PDP walked away with everything with political weight, considerable funds and patronage, including the office of CM for a full term of six years despite the fact that both the BJP+ and the PDP had equal strength in the Assembly.
It is no wonder then that the people of Jammu have been chaffing and denouncing the BJP since March 1, 2015, when PDP in alliance with the BJP assumed power. The ongoing demographic changes in Jammu, Kathua and Samba in particular; its refusal to deport Rohingyas and Bangladeshis from Jammu; its failure to mollify the oppressed and tortured people of Kathua district by making the government to hand over the Rassana murder case to CBI for a fair and transparent probe; its failure to grant district status to Nowshera; its failure to make the state government withdrew the February 14, 2018 highly controversial minutes of the Tribal Affairs Department, which promoted land grabbing in Jammu and bovine smuggling; its failure to obtain justice for the unemployed youth of Jammu; its failure to get for the Jammu youth a fair share in the professional and technical institutions and universities, especially Agriculture University; its failure to address even a single issue the people of Jammu hold very dear; and its controversial role in the SC as far as Articles 35A and Article 370 are concerned have all created a volcanic situation in Jammu province.
Worse still, instead of reading the writing on the wall and doing something concrete for its constituency, the BJP leadership patting its back saying it is for the first time that the people of Jammu got what they deserved. That it has turned unpopular like the Congress in its own constituency could be seen from the fact that it had to shift the executive meet from Kathua to RS Pura, where the BJP leaders would meet for two days on March 31 and April 1.
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