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| Better late than never: BJP on Amarnath land row settlement | | | New Delhi | Sep 1
welcoming the settlement reached on the Amarnath land row, the BJP today lamented that the Centre took two months to reach an understanding with "nationalists."
"The Centre could have reached the agreement in one week. The Ghulam Nabi Azad government bowed to the pressure of the separatists within a week under the directions of the Centre," BJP spokesperson Prakash Javadekar said here.
He said it was the government which forced "people of Jammu and the entire country" to continue the agitation for two months.
The BJP termed the agreement as a victory of nationalist forces. "It has put the separatist elements in a disarray," he said.
"The fight was neither between Hindus or Muslims nor between Jammu and the Valley...It was a fight between nationalists and separatists," Javadekar said.
"The separatists had spread the misinformation that the land transfer would change the demographic profile of the area...The government should have acted fast to quell the campaign and clarified that the land would only be used temporarily," he said slamming the Azad government for its slow response.
The 61-day old agitation in Jammu region on the Amarnath land row ended yesterday following the signing of an agreement between the group leading the agitation and the Jammu and Kashmir Governor-appointed panel, under which the shrine board would be making temporary use of 40-hectares of land during the yatra period.
The agreement was arrived after a six-hour-long fourth round of talks between the Shri Amarnath Yatra Sangharsh Samiti (SAYSS) and the four-member panel of the state government |
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