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| For votes, Congress ready to reward terrorists, terrorists' families | | Keeping Kashmir pot boiling | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 27: Will the political parties contest the coming elections in J&K on democratic and economic planks or on separatist planks? Reports in this regard are frightening. It appears that the parties like the NC, the PDP and the Congress will contest the next elections in J&K on divisive planks and will take recourse to the politics of competitive secessionism and communalism.
The NC has already made it clear that its election planks would be state autonomy (semi-independence for J&K) and regional autonomy (division of Jammu and Ladakh into five zones on religious and ethnic lines). The PDP has said that its fundamental plank will be self-rule: Pakistan, demilitarization, porous borders, dual currency and a step short of independence from India.
As for the BJP, it has put all its balls in the Sajad Lone's basket. Lone o Wednesday declared in Srinagar that he would not mind rejoining hands with the BJP and he would do it "openly". In other words, the BJP has deviated from its original path and compromised its ideology. It became clear in 2015 itself, when the BJP not only joined hands with militant and Pakistan-friendly PDP but also with an ardent believer in the concept of J&K independence and votary of a solution that was acceptable to the majority community, Sajad Lone. Lone is a close friend of BJP national general secretary and in-charge J&K Ram Madhav. He is also in the good books of many top RSS leaders.
And the Congress? It on Wednesday also opened its cards in Jammu while addressing media persons. It was none other than Haji Sagheer Saeed Khan, a senior Congress leader and an observer of the party's Minority cell of AICC, who explained what would be the modus operandi of the Congress party in J&K use to garner votes.
Haji Sagheer Saeed Khan declared that the party would reach out to the people of Kashmir and it has a plan in place to win over the people of Kashmir. He declared that "if voted to power, his party government will award 1 crore compensation to 'innocent' people (read terrorists) killed in Kashmir due to terrorism. He also promised to give one job each to a member of the victims' families".
Haji Saeed Khan also said that the "BJP leaders, who had directed the army to carry out these killings, however big the leaders are, a new law will be formed and the BJP leaders will be sent to the gallows".
Interacting with the media persons after attending a meeting with the minority leaders of the Congress party, Saeed Khan, had earlier announced that "the Congress party will also release prisoners currently kept behind bars due to terrorism, to restore peace in the region".
As was expected, the utterances of the Congress triggered a fierce controversy not only in Jammu, but also at the national level. Responding to the media queries, Vikram Malhotra, senior state Congress leader and media in-charge said: "The statements made by Haji Sagheer Saeed Khan were in his personal capacity. He was not expressing party's viewpoint on these sensitive issues".
No one would believe what Malhotra said. Haji said what he said and he claimed that he was sent to Jammu by the AICC president Rahul Gandhi. Haji has caused an irreparable damage to the Congress party in the state and elsewhere with the BJP taking up this issue in a big way and saying that the Congress party is with terrorists". |
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