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| BJP asks, can UPA handle India? | | Concern on J&K crisis | | New Delhi | Aug 25
Taking a dig at the government for its alleged softness on terror and pandering to demands of the Kashmiri separatists, BJP general secretary Arun Jaitley expressed apprehensions about its ability to keep the country intact.
"The ability of this government to keep the country together is suspect," Jaitley said in his address to the Delhi Study Group, a BJP-affiliated organisation, here.
He accused the government of avoiding a dialogue with Sri Amarnath Sangarsh Samiti (SASS) for 38 days as "it was scared the separatists in the Kashmir valley would be antagonised".
Jaitley said it was clear from the government's "fallacious" policies that it was not concerned about the legacy it would leave behind. He warned separatists and liberals toying with the idea of freedom for Kashmir, saying, "Those who are arguing 'if Kashmir wants to go, let it go' should remember that the age of redrawing political boundaries is over."
He added that after the 9/11 attacks separatists are no longer heard anywhere.
The BJP in-charge of Jammu and Kashmir accused the government of playing politics over the Amarnath land allotment issue. "There are two High Court judgements on the Amarnath issue. But the government does not want to follow the judgement fearing an adverse reaction in the valley," he said.
Jaitley said the government should first implement the court order and then deal with the issues being raised in the Kashmir valley. Giving primacy to the demands of separatists was not the solution, he said.
"The whole agitation in the Kashmir valley is based on a lie that land allotment to the Shrine Board is permanent and is with the aim of Hindu colonisation. But when the separatists started this lie the government did not contradict it," he said, adding, that not quashing rumours of an economic blockade was yet another example of this.
Jaitley alleged the people of Jammu had to face neglect and discrimination since independence due to appeasement of the valley by successive Congress governments.
"History will have to make a cruel judgement about whether the Nehruvian model for Kashmir was correct or whether Shyama Prasad Mukherjee was right. Nehru did not realise that Pakistan had an unfinished agenda of partition," Jaitley said. Mukherjee, who was Jana Sangh founder, had argued for abrogation of special status to Jammu and Kashmir.
Jaitley also accused the PDP and National Conference of playing politics through double-speak to win over the separatists. "While it was Farooq Abdullah who formed the SASB, his son Omar said this is our land and we will not give an inch," he said.
"The PDP has acquired a strange phenomenon. It has one foot in the UPA and another in POK. It has talked about dual currency and is now moving towards dual sovereignty," Jaitley said.
Meanwhile, the BJP today criticised PDP for opposing the transfer of land even temporarily to Amarnath Shrine Board, terming it as "separatist statement."
"While the political set-up of the country is engaged in finding a solution to the Amarnath row, people like Mehbooba Mufti are airing views in support of the separatists. What right does she have to say that any compromise on the issue is unacceptable," party vice-president Muqtar Abbas Naqvi told reporters in New Delhi today.
"The rightful place for people like her is not the political arena but they should be behind bars on charges of anti-national activity," he told reporters here. Reacting to the ongoing talks between the Amarnath Yatra Sangharsh Samiti and governor's appointed four-member panel, Mehbooba Mufti had yesterday said that "any unilateral agreement" arising out of the talks was unacceptable for Kashmir. |
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