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| Autonomywalas, selfrulewalas, Achievable nationhoodwalas all acceptable | | To enjoy power is BJP's ideology | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 1: The BJP perhaps is the only political party in the country, nay in the world, which has no ideology and which can join hands with any political party to form government or become a part of the government. And the BJP is also a party that can abandon and ditch its own core constituency for the sake of fulfilling its insatiable lust for power and pelf.
In 1996, the BJP under Vajpayee and Advani flirted with the autonomywalas (Abdullahs) and made Omar Abdullah a minister at the Centre. Abdullahs didn't compromise their ideology or abandoned their demand seeking greater autonomy for J&K on the ground that it was a Muslim-majority state and that it didn't favour any central law and any central institution. It was not the BJP which snapped ties with the Abdullahs after the 2002 Gujarat episode; it was the NC that quit the NDA and declared that it will never shake hands with the "communal" BJP.
In 2015, the BJP shook hands with the Kashmir-based selfrulewali PDP against which it had contested election. The BJP befriended the PDP, notwithstanding the fact that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and all the top BJP leaders had denounced the Muftis and the Abdullahs and accused them of perpetuating dynastic politics and subverting democracy and democratic institutions in the state and of creating mess in the Kashmir Valley.
The BJP befriended the PDP at the cost of the interests of Jammu and Ladakh and the nation as a whole.
It, in fact, handed over the sensitive state to the PDP on a platter and the result was spurt in terrorist-related activities in Kashmir and further marginalization of Jammu and Ladakh. So much so, it murdered SP Mookerjee, Deendayal Upadhyaya and Prem Nath Dogra, who had fought against the state's special status tooth and nail. It abused Mookerjee, Upadhyaya and Dogra just to please the Muftis in lieu of for insignificant berths in the Mufti cabinet. It threw into the dustbin its whole so-called nationalist ideology in a most brazen manner and defended its action also in a most brazen manner.
Earlier in 2014, the BJP had stitched pre-poll alliance in Kashmir with Sajad Lone of People's Conference (PC) - Sajad Lone a leader of a locality. He was known more for his separatist ideology and his book Achievable Nationhood, which had, inter-alia, talked of independence of the state and imposition of the majority will on the unwilling people of Jammu and Ladakh. The PC had won only two seats and the BJP made the Muftis to make Lone a Cabinet Minister out of its own quota.
As if all this was not enough to outrage the sensitivities of its constituencies in Jammu and Ladakh, the BJP on November 21, 2018 offered Lone its unflinching support so that he could become J&K Chief Minister.
All this has made the BJP very unpopular in Jammu and Ladakh. In Ladakh, the Buddhists have almost abandoned the BJP. It lost its face in the just-held ULB polls by not winning even one ward out of 26. Its MP from the region Thupstan Chhewang has also deserted the party and resigned from Lok Sabha after accusing the BJP of letting down Ladakh by not fulfilling its solemn promises.
In Jammu, its popularity has dwindled to the extent that the people have started saying that the "BJP is over" and that "it would be a miracle if it wins even 6 seats in the next elections". In 2014, the BJP had won three Lok Sabha seats in Jammu and Ladakh and also won 25 of 37 assembly seats in Jammu. |
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