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| Cross-LoC trade: BJP doubts intentions | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Sep 8
Accusing the Congress-led UPA Government at the Centre of bartering away the country's paramount sovereign interests, BJP State Vice-President and spokesperson Prof Hari Om today urged the central government to drop the idea of cross-LoC trade, saying that it is fraught with dangerous ramifications and that the idea, if given an effect to, would not only help the secessionists to implement their nefarious dismember-India agenda, but would also adversely impact the economy of Jammu, which is the Kashmir's economic lifeline and hub of all activities.
In a statement issued here on Monday he said that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA chairperson and Congress president Sonia Gandhi allowed themselves to be influenced by the subversives like Arundati Roy and Prem Shankasr Jha and decided to hand over Kashmir to Pakistan on a platter believing that Kashmir is unmanageable, that Kashmir is under the illegal occupation of India and that cross-LoC trade could be the major step forward in this direction?
Justifying the party's vehement opposition to the reports that Union Government might allow cross-LoC trade from October 1, Prof Hari Om said this shows that there are elements in the Indian establishment who want New Delhi to commit a grave blunder ignoring the implications of the move.
He said the cross-LoC trade would automatically mean three things- no reliance on Jammu, no reliance on New Delhi and a major onslaught on the Jammu's economy as the cross-LoC trade would directly impact the inter-regional trade. He further said that several Kashmiri leaders have publicly said so.
"To ignore what these Kashmiri leaders have publicly stated and go ahead with the proposal would vindicate the BJP charge that the Prime Minister and the Congress president are out to negate all that the Indian State did after 1947 to integrate Kashmir into India", he said.
He further said that the opening of trade routes with Pakistan would help Kashmir based leadership to achieve what they could not do during the past 62 years-independence from India.
He asked the central leadership to sit up and ponder over the reasons behind the unanimous stand of the Kashmiri leaders on cross-LoC trade. This, he asserted, is imperative as the intentions of Kashmiri leaders are evil. "The Indian Foreign Office, the Union Home and Finance Ministries and State Governor N N Vohra, who appear more eager to go in for cross-LoC trade, must stop work on this essentially pro-separatist and pro-rouge Pakistani State", he counseled. |
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