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Early Times Report
JAMMU, June 14: The BJP has unleashed a full-scale campaign against the Congress to create an impression that the latter was responsible for all the ills afflicting J&K. The BJP has trained its guns at the Congress following its charge that the BJP had no J&K policy and that situation in Kashmir had deteriorated to the maximum extent.
The BJP attack on the Congress cannot be rejected outright. It does make a point when it holds the Congress responsible for the mess in Kashmir. Had the Congress not made Sheikh Abdullah a party to the J&K accession and had it not introduced divisive and unsettling Articles 35-A and 370, things in J&K would have been much better, as the state would have come under the ambit of the Indian Constitution in entirety. That the Congress committed serious blunders is an established fact and, hence, the BJP is within its right to tear into the Congress and tell the nation the damage its blunders did to the country in J&K.
However, the slate of BJP is also not clean. It too has committed several blunders and only added to the woes of the nation in J&K. Leave aside the BJP's "unholy" alliance with the pro-self-rule and pro-healing touch PDP and the adverse impact this alliance has had on the state polity in general and Jammu and Ladakh in particular.
It is amazing that while the BJP leaves no stone unturned to blacken the face of the Congress, it doesn't tell the country that the Congress never granted amnesty to stone-pelters and that it also didn't announce unilateral ceasefire even once after December 31, 1948, when Nehru announced ceasefire at a time when the Indian Army was about to evict the Pakistani intruders.
The BJP can't rake up this, as it would be lambasted by one and all across the nation. It is the BJP, which announced ceasefire twice; first, during the time of AB Vajpayee in 2003, and, second time, during the regime of PM Narendra Modi on May 16, 2018. Not just this, the BJP also granted amnesty twice to stone-pelters in Kashmir. First, it granted amnesty to nearly 10,000 stone-pelters in November 2017. It was announced by Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh. As if all this was not enough, he again on June 7 announced amnesty to "minor" stone-pelters. And, he announced amnesty for the second time in Srinagar itself.
The truth is that both the BJP and the Congress are traveling in the same boat and both are squarely responsible for whatever is going on in the state in general and Kashmir in particular. |
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