| While the BJP plans to contest three seats in the valley and is awaiting its President, Amit Shah, to clear the top leaders who may address the poll rallies in the valley, on the other hand the National Conference Vice President and former chief minister Omar Abdullah has said BJP's five-year rule deprived Kashmir of development on all fronts. This is a campaign that may be acceptable to the people,rather voters in Kashmir. The NC workers have told people in Baramulla district, blamed both Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Peoples Conference (PC) for allying with the rightwing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and destroying the fragile atmosphere of Kashmir. Omar has said the current status of Jammu Kashmir was very depressing and both the BJP and its allies in Kashmir were responsible for this. "Be it our economy, security, special status, employment of youth, development, or rise in prices, last five years proved harsh for Jammu Kashmir and those who allied with BJP are equally responsible for the mess in Kashmir," he said. The NC leaders have said in times of elections, clouds of war were looming in the State and instead of Indo-Pak friendship talks, speeches of hatred and violence are coming out from every corner of India. "Kashmir always bears the brunt of skirmishes between India and Pakistan. Those in TV studios who talk about war don't bear the brunt of war, their houses are not bombarded on LoC, war planes don't fly over their houses. Certain people only gain from tense situations in the country. Even on Pakistan Day, policemen were deployed outside Pakistan High Commission to stop invited guests from participating in the function," the former chief minister said.He warned people that both PDP and PC would again change their colours to gain votes and power.Who is responsible for it ? Only Pakistan. Pakistan, its Army to be specific its Army hurl bombs and mortars on the Indian side of the the LOC which have caused lot of problems for people in the border areas. The rightwing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is likely to send its top-notch leaders as star campaigners for the Lok Sabha polls in Jammu and Kashmir beginning April 11. Sources said top BJP leaders likely to travel to Valley include Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari, Minister of Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare J P Nadda. The names of the BJP leaders were discussed during a party meeting held Tuesday that was chaired by BJP General Secretary Ram Madhav at Kongposh hotel in Srinagar.However, it would be BJP's national president Amit Shah who would give the final approval for the names shortlisted for campaigning.The names of these leaders were already decided by the party at the State level and the list was sent to New Delhi for approval. Today in the meeting, the same list was finalised," sources in BJP said. Madhav, who looks after the party affairs in Jammu Kashmir, was on a one-day visit to Kashmir to chalk out the final strategy for the poll campaign in the conflict-hit State. The BJP plans the shortlisted BJP leaders would campaign in all three Lok Sabha constituencies in Kashmir including the south Kashmiri's militancy hot-bed Anantnag constituency. |
