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| Will not allow 'communal conclaves' to come up in Jammu: BJP | | Pressure from below rattles power-hungry BJP | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Apr 27: Nothing good is happening for the BJP, which has been sharing power with the Kashmir-based pro-self-rule PDP. Almost its entire constituency has turned against it with people targeting the BJP more than the PDP and accusing it of "betraying them for four ineffective chairs in the Cabinet". (BJP holds portfolios of PDD, Irrigation, Health and Forest - all without political weight, funds and patronage).
The nature of people's anger against the BJP could be measured from the fact that they are openly and without mincing words saying that "they committed a big blunder by voting for the unscrupulous and power-hungry BJP" and that "the biggest threat to their identity is from the BJP, as it could even barter Jammu & Kashmir to retain control over power in the state".
It was not for nothing that the BJP on Wednesday fielded MLC and former state BJP chief Ashok Khajuria to explain away the party's stand on the February 14, 2018 minutes of the meeting of the tribal affairs department wherein the Chief minister had directed Deputy Commissioners, especially of Hindu-majority districts of Kathua, Samba, Jammu and Udhampur, and IGP Jammu and Police not to evict tribals from the state and forest land they had occupied in Jammu and that police shall not provide protection for evicting them. Ashok Khajuria not only termed these minutes of the tribal affairs department as "anti-Hindu" (very strong condemnation) but also accused the state government of conspiring against Jammu to change its demography.
Earlier also, the BJP had lambasted those who had been allegedly grabbing state and forest land in Jammu and setting up enclaves exclusively for a particular community.
The BJP had said: "Communal enclaves are coming up in Jammu city and its periphery. These enclaves or colonies are built on religious lines and they will not be allowed to come up in this relatively peaceful region of the state". This statement was not made by an ordinary BJP worker; it was made by a senior BJP minister in the Mehbooba Mufti Government.
Visit the party headquarters at Jammu's posh Trikuta Nagar and meet any BJP workers, he/she will take no time to condemn what has been happening in Jammu since 2015 and would also say that 'the BJP's coalition with the PDP has hurt Jammu more than any political party" and "this alliance must go as it has discredited their party and given absolute power to the PDP to play all the shots and take all policy decisions".
But the people of Jammu are not impressed by what they call "hollow statements". "We want action on the ground; we want what is our due share; we want Rohingyas, Bangladeshis and others, who have illegally occupied our state and forest land, to leave Jammu". |
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