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| Sajjad Lone plays Kargil card to revive relations with BJP | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 11: After a few months of strained relations with the Bharatiya Janta Party, separatist leader turned mainstream politician Sajjad Gani Lone is “trying his best to revive bonhomie” with the right-wing party.
Sources told Early Times that Sajjad has realized that “unless he improves relations with the BJP, his party is a gone case and to revive the same he is making new efforts to win back the hearts of the senior leaders in the right wing party.”
Sources said in the latest such efforts, Sajad who heads Peoples Conference, had sent his party delegation to Kargil to convince the locals there for “harmonious relations with Leh and that they should not seek any merger of Kargil with Kashmir.”
Sources said the delegation of the PC led by a senior party leaders held detailed deliberations with two influential groups in Kargil district.
Sources said the meetings lasted for hours during which the PC leader tried to convince the Kargil leaders that their “future is with the Union Territory of Ladakh and that they should not seek merger with Kashmir through any agitation.”
It is pertinent to mention that the relations between PC and BJP had got affected after Sajjad had joined the so called Gupkar Declaration ahead of the abrogation of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir on August 5, 2019.
“While Sajjad was subsequently detained along with other politicians, after his release from the prison, he couldn’t get much of attention,” said a politician.
Interestingly prior to August 2019, Sajjad Lone was seen among the Chief Ministerial candidates from Kashmir. “But this was seen as possible only till the day he was in good relations with the BJP but after that he is nowhere in the list of Chief Ministerial candidates,” the politician added.
Sources said “realizing that his political career was dependent on relations with BJP”, Sajad is trying to “revive the relations.”
“He must be feeling sorry for what he did by joining the drama called Gupkar Declaration,” said the politician.
Despite repeated attempts the Peoples Conference leaders were not available for comments.
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