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| ‘BJP set to beat dust in J&K’ | | Hari Om says BJP had tried to block SMVDU, Agri University creation in J&K | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Dec 11: Commenting on the claim of BJP that it would form the next government in J&K on its own or that no party would be in a position to form the government without its support, member of the Congress Election Campaign Committee Prof Hari Om said that it is a rather tall claim and added that the party, which had just one member in the last assembly and that too by a quirk of an accident, is likely to bite dust again in the 2008 very crucial elections. He said the BJP has no attractive wares to put in the market for sale and that the mature and politically conscious electorate is fully aware of the fact that it is simply hoodwinking the people of Jammu by raking up issues it is not really committed to and that a vote for BJP would be a vote for those who under no situation can become an important factor in the assembly, which discusses and decides questions of supreme importance to the happiness and well-being of the people. He made these comments while talking to media persons here today.
Prof. Om said that BJP has no political roadmap for the people of Jammu and asserted that it is Congress which has made a solemn commitment that it, if voted to power, shall “restructure the State Constitution” in order to set up statutory “regional councils” both for Jammu province and Kashmir. He said that the model suggested by BJP for the empowerment of Jammu is not only very vague and misleading but also unachievable because it only talks of “adequate financial and developmental powers” and nowhere refers to the need of constitutional amendment.
Asserting that BJP is rabidly anti-Jammu and that a vote for Congress shall mean a vote for peace, prosperity, all-round development, a guarantee that J&K shall ever remain as integral part of India and comprehensive defeat of those demanding self-rule, economic independence, demilitarization, greater autonomy, co-equal powers for Pakistan with India in J&K and so on, Prof. Om drew the attention to the anti-Jammu role played by BJP in the assembly in 1998 and 2002. He said that everyone in Jammu knows that all the eight legislators of BJP opposed the official Bill in 1998 seeking establishment of Agriculture University and Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University in Jammu at a time when the people were on the streets and that all the eight members, including the present party president, who is contesting election from the Jammu East Assembly Constituency, supported the National Conference sponsored official Bill in 2008 seeking a ban on the delimitation of the assembly constituencies till 2026, nay 2038. He asked BJP leadership to stop shedding crocodile tears as it is party to the Jammu’s neglect. |
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