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| Jamaat ban exposes NC-PDP vote bank politics | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 2: The ban on Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) in Jammu and Kashmir has exposed how the JEI was "supporting" Peoples Democratic Party in the elections over the years.
While the PDP has come out in public against the ban asking the people to stage protests against the government decision, the National Conference has been largely silent.
The former Chief Minister and PDP President Mehbooba Mufti warned on Saturday that banning the Jamaat will have "dangerous ramifications".
"You cannot imprison an ideology or an idea. There are thousands of Kashmiris in villages and cities associated with the Jamaat. It is a socio-religious organization," he said.
She said that banning the Jamaat could have "dangerous ramifications. By doing this, the BJP is converting Jammu and Kashmir into an open prison."
But the National Conference has been avoiding any such protests against the ban on Jamaat.
For many years it was an open secret in Kashmir that Jamaat was allegedly supporting PDP to "defeat NC to settle old scores."
"The silence of NC on the issue has only proved that their party is happy with the decision as their old enemy has been gagged," said a teacher of political science working in Jammu university.
Pertinently former RAW Chief AS Dulat in his book "Kashmir the Vajpayee Years" had suggested that PDP was drawing its support from the Jamaat and that the latter wanted to settle scores with the NC.
The Jamaat had been accusing the NC of having resorting to rigging in the 1987 polls.
Meanwhile authorities in Kashmir have sealed several properties belonging to Jamaat including residences of some of its activists, police said Saturday, days after the Centre banned the outfit on grounds that it was "in close touch" with militant groups and was likely to "escalate secessionist movement".
Several properties, including residential houses, belonging to various JeI leaders and activists were sealed in many areas of the city and elsewhere in the Valley Friday night, a police official said.
He said bank accounts of JeI leaders have also been freezed.
Various district magistrates have also sought list of moveable and immovable properties of the Jamaat leaders, he said. |
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