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| Revolt in Sangh Parivar: VHP flays BJP's role in all-party meet | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, July 15: The Sangh Parivar, which consists of several organizations, all founded by the RSS, is in deep crisis. Some of the RSS-founded and controlled outfits are taking on each other publicly, although all the constituents of the Sangh Parivar work under the direct control and guidance of Nagpur (RSS headquarter) and Jhandewalan, Delhi (Jhandewalan houses one of the main RSS offices). One of them has even gone to the extent of accusing the BJP of bartering national interests in order "appease anti-national forces…" The case in point is the open attack of the Vishwa Hinu Parishad (VHP) on the BJP.
Actually, the J&K VHP president Rama Kant Dubey has denounced the BJP for its controversial role in the all-party meet, which was held at Srinagar on July 12 at the behest of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah to discuss ways and means that could help restore normalcy in Kashmir. His basic grouse against the BJP is that it "failed to address the aspirations of the nationalist forces in the state." "It is really regrettable that controversial resolutions to appease anti-national elements were passed in the meeting in which representatives from the BJP were present", he has, in fact said, and added that "decisions taken in the meeting would prove disastrous for the state in general and the country in particular." He has further said: "The BJP attended the meeting without taking care of the aspirations of the nationalist forces."
It would not be out of place to mention here that the all-party resolution had, among other things, had provided for an "inquiry into the circumstances leading to the death of civilians" and urged the concerned authorities to hasten the "peace process through internal and external dialogue." In other words, the resolution questioned the very accession of J&K with India and the role of security forces in Kashmir. Indeed, the resolution was very controversial.
One can understand the reasons behind the Panthers' Party's attack on the BJP because the support-base of both these formations is confined to say 24 Hindu-majority constituencies in the Jammu province and because both these formations consistently seek to let down each other for vote-bank politics. One can also comprehend very easily the reasons behind the attack of a marginal political group, People's Revolutionary Movement (PRM) on the BJP. The PRM has said: "First, the BJP's decision to attend the meeting was wrong. Then its leaders became party to controversial resolutions that were passed in their presence…During the meeting, the Chief Minister justified the anger of the stone-throwers and the BJP leaders, by their presence, endorsed (the Chief Minister's stand). The people of Jammu will teach BJP leaders a lesson in the days to come for playing into the hands of the ruling coalition."
One can say that the attack of the Panthers Party and the PRM on the BJP is politically motivated. One can also say that the Panthers Party see in what the BJP did in Srinagar an invaluable opportunity to corner the latter and settle political score. One can also say that the PRM, which, along with other Jammu-based outfits, has been spearheading a movement to ensure the appointment of a Jammu-based academician as Vice-Chancellor of the Central University of Jammu, is biased against the BJP because the BJP did not support the call for Jammu bandh on May 1.
But no one can attach any motive to the VHP, one of the frontline organizations of the RSS. What the VHP president has said points to a deeper malaise. The open attack of the BHP on the BJP, another frontline organization of the RSS, only serves to indicate serious dissensions within the Sangh Parivar. These dissensions leave no one in any doubt that the Sangh Parivar is divided on the crucial issue of J&K. While the formations like the BJP have no hesitation in pursing the NC line on the state and concluding a truce over the issue with Pakistan and the Kashmiri extremists, the outfits like the VHP are rabidly opposed to this line.
One cannot but endorse the views of the VHP. In fact, no well-wisher and friend of India would ever appreciate the role of the BJP in the all-party meet, as also in the meetings of the Working Group on Centre-State Relations. Remember, BJP national general secretary Arun Jaitley, who was a member of this Working Group, did not oppose even once the clamour of the NC and the PDP in favour of greater autonomy and self-rule. Nor did he talk about Jammu and Ladakh and Article 370. He attended the meetings just to mark his party's attendance and show that the BJP was what the Working Group would finally recommend. That he did not raise even his little finger against the NC and the PDP was an indication that the BJP would not mind dilution of the Indian sovereignty in J&K. Anyway, the VHP has done well to expose the BJP's Kashmir policy. It is obvious that the BJP would pay a very heavy price in the days to come for the blunders it has been committing since 1998.
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