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| Dumps pro 'self-rule' Mehbooba, embraces pro 'special status' Sajjad | | BJP in suicide mode | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 24: BJP is in a suicide mode. It doesn't know what it is doing and it also doesn't know that its political conduct, appeasement policy and Kashmir-centric approach are alienating both Jammu and Ladakh which changed its political fortunes in 2014. Ladakh has already shown BJP its place by rejecting it outrightly in the ULB elections. It had not won even one out of 26 wards in Ladakh. It was the Congress, which turned tables on it.
The lone MP from Ladakh, Thupstan Cheewang, had also resigned both from the BJP and the Lok Sabha and his resignation letter addressed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party president Amit Shah said that he took this step because the BJP badly let down Ladakh and betrayed the people of the region by going back on its two solemn commitments: "Grant of UT status to the region within six months and inclusion of Bhoti language in the 8th Schedule of the Indian Constitution". Besides, he lambasted BJP national general secretary and in-charge J&K Ram Madhav and state BJP president Ravinder Raina for humiliating the genuine BJP leaders and workers in Ladakh and by promoting their yes men and sycophants. Now, it's the turn of Jammu, where it also suffered huge electoral losses during the just-held ULB polls. The BJP had lost polls in 9 of the 10 districts and it was only Jammu district which saved its face.
On June 19, when the BJP withdrew its support to pro-self-rule Mehbooba Mufti, it was widely believed that it had learned lessons from past mistakes and that it would no more hobnob with Kashmiri leaders with doubtful credentials. The BJP leaders had denounced the self approved PDP-BJP agenda of alliance and had given to understand that the BJP committed a blunder by shaking hands with pro-self-rule PDP. It was also believed that it would say goodbye to author of Achievable Nationhood and People's Conference chief Sajad Lone, who was a Cabinet minister in the PDP-led coalition government out of the BJP quota, and play only politics of integration and Jammu's and Ladakh's empowerment. But it was not to be.
The BJP continued to flirt with Sajad Lone. So much so, it on November 21 gave him support so that he could take over as J&K CM as third front leader. BJP had 25 MLAs and Sajad Lone only 2. Sajad Lone didn't compromise its pro-Kashmir and separatist ideology; he held his ground firmly. A day later, Lone made it loud and clear that yes, he was an ally of the BJP, but he would not compromise his ideology. He said J&K's special status was sacrosanct for him and no Kashmiri could even dream of giving up special status.
"Protection of special status of the state is sacred for his party. No Kashmiri politician can ever dream of giving it up," he without mincing words said in Srinagar while taking on Mehbooba Mufti, Omar Abdullah and others in the otherwise non-existent Grand Alliance. Not just this, Lone virtually disclosed that he was the CM candidate of the "Third Front" and the BJP was solidly behind him.
It all suggests that it was the BJP which compromised its ideology in 2015 to befriend pro-self-rule PDP and it was again BJP, which compromised its ideology to please and befriend Sajad Lone. In the process, the BJP lost its face. The BJP would surely commit suicide if it continued to behave like it behaved between March 1, 2015 and June 18, 2018. If it is to remain relevant in Jammu and Ladakh, it has to behave like Kashmiri leaders of all hues behave otherwise it will be over in Jammu and Ladakh sooner than later. |
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