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| After throwing earlier vision documents into dustbin, BJP plans to draft a new one | | Preparing for 2019 elections | | Early Times Report
Jammu, June 3: The J&K unit of BJP has planned to prepare three vision documents for J&K, one each for Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh, and the state BJP president has at the behest of the party high command set the ball rolling to get these vision documents prepared in a month or two.
"Top brass of the party especially the ministers have been asked to immediately come out with their 'vision documents' on various departments, which will be followed by documents on three regions of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh followed by a comprehensive document, which will outline the party stand on J&K problems and proposed solutions to it," a report said. The report also said that the BJP was the only party which didn't have any document on J&K indicating what the party stood for and that the NC has a document on autonomy, the PDP has a self-rule document and the People's Conference also has a vision document, called 'Achievable Nationhood".
The whole approach of the BJP is intriguing at least for two reasons. One, only in November 2014 on the eve of the Assembly elections, the J&K BJP released its Vision Document for Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh with much fanfare. It had got prepared and printed its election manifesto for the 2014 assembly elections, but it threw its manifesto into a dust-win after a new entrant into the BJP Hina Bhat of Kashmir threatened that "she would be the first to pick up gun if the BJP abrogated Article 370 of the Indian Constitution", which granted separate status to J&K.
Such was the impact of Hina Bhat on the BJP's top brass that instead of showing her the door, the high command, on the one hand, didn't release its election manifesto prepared by the manifesto committee headed by then Political Advisor to the state BJP president Yugal Kishor Sharma, Prof Hari Om, and, on the other hand, gave her the mandate from the prestigious Amira Kadal constituency. She lost her security deposit, as she got only a few 100s votes.
The BJP had to hurriedly prepare a vision document, which was released in Jammu by the J&K BJP Prabhari Avinash Rai Khanna. Though the Vision Document didn't include anything political, it did hold out a few promises to the neglect people of Jammu and Ladakh. The BJP also threw this Vision Document into dust bin after March 1, 2015, when the PDP formed coalition government with the BJP on the basis of the "PDP-BJP Agenda of Alliance", described in Jammu as "agenda of subversion", "agenda of capitulation" and "another rivet in the chain of slavery of Jammu and Ladakh". This Agenda of Alliance contained everything for Kashmir, for Pakistan and for Hurriyat and further rendered the people of Jammu and Ladakh ineffective in the state polity for all practical purposes. Besides, this Agenda of Alliance negated all that the BJP or its earlier incarnation Jan Sangh stood for: Abrogation of Article 370 and the complete integration of J&K into India and a dispensation that gave the people of Jammu and Ladakh what they rightfully deserved in the state's political, social and economic processes.
The fact of the matter is that the BJP's plan to prepare three vision documents, one each for Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh - apart from a comprehensive document indicating its stand on the issues facing these regions and the state and the solutions to it -- is yet another exercise in self-deception. Its whole exercise, it appears, is to mislead the people of Jammu and Ladakh so that it could repeat its 2014 performance in both these regions. The situation as it exists today suggests that the BJP is at the receiving end in both these regions. |
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