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| BJP, Panthers eyeing on anti-incumbency factor | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, NOV 28: The BJP and the Panthers Party, which have adopted a do or die attitude for wining more seats than they did in 2002 election, claim that the anti-incumbency factor may weigh heavy not only against the Congress and the PDP, that shared power in Jammu and Kashmir for five and a half years, but against the National Conference also. In support of their contention the BJP Chief, Ashok Khajuria, and general secretary Panthers Party, Harsh Dev Singh, today said "we believe voters may have not have forgotten the role of these three mainstream political parties in raising the level of regional discrimination."
The two leaders said that it was the result of the "machinations of the Congress, the National Conference and the PDP that the embargo on the setting up of a fresh delimitation commission for re-organizing the Assembly segments was extended to 2026."Hasrh Dev Singh said "I have been telling people, during my pre-poll campaign that the Congress, the National Conference and the PDP, opposed my bill which I tabled in the Assembly last year seeking amendment to the resolution on delimitation commission so that the number of Assembly constituencies was increased from 37 to 45 in the Jammu region, which has more area and population,"
The two leaders, while blaming the Congress and the PDP for having engineered the crisis over the land row, said that the two parties may not be able to repeat the 2002 poll performance when already people in the Jammu region were annoyed over the way the successive state Governments sustained the level of discrimination against one region of the state. They said "our cry against regional discrimination, our fight for delimitation of constituencies and for political power for Jammu is our main weapons for striking at the roots of the Congress, the National Conference and the PDP."
However, indications are that the ground for the Congress, the PDP and the National Conference was not as rough as it could be seen two months ago when the tempers were high against the revocation of land diversion order. The three parties have succeeded in regaining the ground they had lost and this was evident by the way leaders of these parties could carry on the pre-poll campaign in phase one and two poll process in four districts of Leh, Kargil ,Bandipore and Poonch, Ganderbal. But Khajuria and Harsh Dev believe that these three parties were likely to face rough weather in Jammu, Kathua, Udhampur and Samba districts when the campaign in these belts hoots up. |
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