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| Virendra demands deportation of Rohingyas, BJP expresses concern | | Hoodwinking Jammu for power | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Apr 3: It was only a couple of days ago that J&K BJP state spokesperson Prof Virendra Gupta demanded deportation of Rohingyas and Bangladeshis from Jammu, saying they constituted a grave threat to national security and Jammu's demography. His statement came just a day before the J&K BJP executive was to meet at Suchetgarh and after the top RSS leadership took cognizance of the presence of Rohingyas and Bangladeshis in Jammu and expressed the view that their presence in Jammu was dangerous both for the national security and Jammu's demography.
Not only one of the top RSS national leader had taken up the issue of Rohingya during his recent vist to Jammu, but the RSS-founded Bharat Raksha Manch also made similar statement in Jammu on Sunday on the Rohingya issue and said that the settlement of Rohogyas near military establishments, railway station, airport and along the national highway was a matter of grave concern.
It was not the first occasion when Virendra Gupta took a clear-cut stand on the Rohingya issue. He had demanded their deportation a number of times in the ast as well, thus giving an impression that what he repeatedly said through press statements was the party line. After all, not one leader in the BJP contradicted his statements.
However, the timing of his latest statement was very significant: It was a statement on Rohingyas and Bangladeshis made just on the eve of the party's executive meeting. It was expected that the BJP would take up the Rohingya issue in a big way and adopt a resolution warning the state government that it would snap ties with the PDP in case the Rohingyas and Bangladeshi illegal immigrants were not deported from Jammu, Samba and Kathua within a definite timeframe. But the BJP dashed all the hopes of the people. The BJP executive meeting did nothing except expressing what it called "serious concern on systematic illegal settlement of Rohingyas and Bangladeshis in Jammu and terming the same against national interest".
Strange is the BJP and strange was its approach. BJP was in power both at the centre and in J&K. It was its duty, and not the duty of some Tom, Dick and Harry, to deport them. By expressing only concern and not threatening J&K Government of which it was a part, the BJP yet again proved that it ad neither the will nor the capacity to fight for the national cause in the state and that it wants to remain on the right side of the PDP at whatever cost. |
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