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| BJP again hoodwinks Jammu for votes | | 'Hindu CM' | | Early Times Report
Jammu, June 21: When will the Narendra Modi Government hold Assembly elections in Jammu & Kashmir? No one knows. But the local unit of the BJP has again started hoodwinking the already beguiled people of Jammu province by trying to give them to understand that the BJP this time will win more than 44 assembly seats and make a Hindu chief minister of the state.
"It will happen this time. A dream is to come true," Jammu & Kashmir BJP chief Ravinder Raina was quoted as saying. "We will have a Hindu chief minister from Jammu this time," he was also quoted as saying. He had made similar statements during the just-held party's executive committee meet.
The BJP is a political party and it is its right to make any claim. But what are the ground realities in the state? The ground reality is that the BJP's support-base is confined to only 28 assembly constituencies in Jammu province and three in Ladakh. In the remaining 56 assembly constituencies, the BJP is considered untouchable or pariah for reasons not difficult to understand. The most notable reason is the demographic profile of these 56 constituencies.
The recent Lok Sabha results made it loud and clear that the electorate in these 56 assembly segments will never vote for the BJP. The claim of the BJP that it has over 5 lakh members in Kashmir is simply an exercise in self-deception. In the recent Lok Sabha elections, the BJP's three Muslim candidates could get only about 9000 Muslim votes and this should clear all the cobwebs of confusion.
The BJP says that it will make a Hindu from Jammu chief minister of the state. It's nothing but an attempt to hoodwink and mislead the people of Jammu province. A party which could not set up even a delimitation commission to satisfy the urge of the people of Jammu province holding out Hindu chief minister promise appears ridiculous.
The people of Jammu know it full well that Jammu & Kashmir Governor SP Malik only on June 12 dismissed the talk of delimitation as a mere "rumour" and the BJP didn't react till date. Had the BJP been really committed to the genuine cause of Jammu province, it would have contested the Governor's claim to reassure the people that it will constitute a delimitation commission sooner than later. That it didn't do so and decided to remain silent has only exposed the BJP leadership with many in Jammu already accusing the BJP of "betraying the 2019 mandate". The point is that the BJP's Hindu chief minister slogan has no taker in Jammu province. |
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