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| Amidst political unrest, BJP vows public inconvenience | | Traders, shopkeepers support issue but resent forcible shut down | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | June 25
Playing an equal party with the fundamentalists and vested interests hell bent to vitiate the atmosphere and make common people to suffer, the state unit of Bhartiya Janta Party today issued dictates in the town for a forcible shot down on Thursday.
Arrogant activists of BJP announced from the loudspeakers fitted atop autorikshaws asking people to close down their establishments on Thursday to oppose the move for cancellation of land to the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board. At various places the BJP activists warned of action if the shops and other business establishments were not closed down on their call.
Such announcements were taken with a pinch of salt by poor shopkeepers and small time vendors who feared a loss of two squares meal for their family which they would have earned with petty sales of the day. “Closing my kiosk for the day means forcing my family to sleep empty stomach tomorrow night”, said Rak Kumar a vegetable vendor at the KC Crossing on BC Road.
Sham Lal, another shopkeeper in Gandhi Nagar, said the BJP was once the trusted saviour of the people of Jammu but due to these forcible shot down they reduced their tally in the assembly from eight seats in 1996 to one seat in 2002 elections. With his own theory of political understanding, Sham told EARLY TIMES, “BJP lost all assembly seats in Jammu City primarily for the reason that they would force shut downs every new day and on every petty issue putting people in grave inconvenience”. He recalled in his own way as how Gandhi Nagar Chowdhary Piara Singh and his supporters would chase the shopkeepers with batons to shut down their shops and heavily this cost to Chowdhary during the next elections.
Meanwhile, expressing grave concern over the situation in Jammu and Kashmir BJP State Vice-President & Spokesperson Prof. Hari Om today said congress’ association with the PDP is only tarnishing image of the Congress aprty in teh eyes of the voters in Jammu. He said the fast deteriorating situation in Jammu and Kashmir has led to a communal divide over the issue of Shri Amarnath Yatra.
He said the Deputy Chief Minister has no moral right to speak on the issue of transfer of land as the PDP is itself a party to the cabinet decision to that effect, Prof. Hari Om said that the association of the Congress with the PDP has only tarnished its own image in the eyes of the people. He said the parting of the ways between the Congress and the PDP has become absolutely necessary in view of the fact that the PDP has not only vitiated the Amarnath Yatra but it is also opposing each and every step of the government for petty vote bank politics and polarizing the state society on communal lines.
Commenting on Deputy Chief Minister Beig's Srinagar statement that the BJP President Ashok Khajuria is a non entity and that supplies can reach valley through Muzaffarbad—Srinagar Road, Prof. Hari Om said that all this exposes the PDP ideologue and establishes that his attitude towards India is no different from that of the Kashmir based separatists. He appealed the innocent Kashmiri Muslims to see through the gameplan of the PDP and not allow them to vitiate the Kashmir's political scene as it has the potential of disrupting yatra and distrubing the communal amity.BJP Janipur Mandal under its President Dinesh Gupta held massive demonstration to register protest against the statement of Muzaffar Hussain Beig over the issue of transfer of land in favour of Amarnath Shrine Board for setting up of temporary structures at Baltal for the convienince of the yatris coming from different parts of the country.
Talab Tillo mandal of BJP, led by Mandal President Chander Mohan Gupta, burnt the effigy of Muzaffar Hussain Beig at Maheshpura Chowk and criticised Beig for issuing communal statements for political gains only.
Similar protest demonstration was also held at Satwari Chowk which was jointly organized by Gandhi Nagar and Satwari Mandals of the BJP under Vinay Gupta and Ch. Vikram Randhawa. |
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