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| BJP takes strong note of malicious campaign on Amarnath Yatra | | ‘Give up vote bank politics’, warns Khajuria | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | May 24
Taking strong note of the malicious campaign spearheaded by political outfits inimical to two month long Shri Amarnath Yatra, state BJP Chief Ashok Khajuria on Saturday warned elements vitiating the peaceful atmosphere ahead of annual pilgrimage.
Addressing media conference here today, the state BJP chief flanked by senior party leaders said, “a political outfit after having failed to counter the yatra on ecology plank, have now started mobilizing all channels and lobbying for a non-Hindu Governor with a clandestine motive of taking over the control of Shri Mata Vaishno Devi and Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board from Raj Bhavan.
Khajuria alleged, these elements want the new Governor to be in the Raj Bhavan before June 18, when the Yatra would start, so that they could curtail the yatra period from the proposed two months to one month.
When asked to disclose the names of these elements and who is being projected as the new incumbent in Raj Bhawan, Khajuria said the elements are known to all who have been creating hurdles in the yatra since 2003. We will expose them at an appropriate time. They are doing it for vote bank politics by inciting communal sentiment against the pilgrimage, he added. On persistent queries on who is being projected as the new Governor, Khajuria said that he is someone who is a known sympathizer of separatists and who stands for the division of Jammu and Ladakh provinces on communal lines so that Greater Kashmir consisting of the Muslim-majority areas could be established.
Khajuria also referred to media reports about the moves of the Board to have Amarnath Nagar established in the vicinity of Shri Amarnath cave shrine and changing the demography of Kashmir by bringing Hindus from outside the State and said this seems to be the figment of imagination of communalists. These communalists have already done damage to their own ethos and seem to be now hell-bent on dividing the state on communal lines. In this context, he made a mention of the news report in a Jammu paper about the proposed Shardha Peeth University in Kashmir and said: It is unfortunate that those who are naïve about the history of Kashmir call Shardha Peeth a Ginny, forgetting its glorious ethos. This university existed when there was no conception of a varsity anywhere in the world. This is the mind-set of the so-called intellectuals that needs to be changed. ‘Sooner it happens, the better it is’, he remarked.
The BJP president also had a dig on New Delhi for allowing Mughal Road construction at a whooping central assistance. This is yet another act of politicians to have the integration of Muslim-dominated districts of Rajouri and Poonch with Kashmir to achieve their objective of “Greater Kashmir” on the lines of plans drafted by the US settled Kashmiri, Farooq Kathwari and Pakistan President, Parvez Musharraf. The tremendous damage Mughal road will cause to ecology and environment has been totally ignored, he added. |
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