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| Events that motivated JKLF to counter BJP's plan on flag hoisting | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Jan 15: Why the JKLF leadership was silent about its programme of organising a march to Lal Chowk on India's Republic Day on January 26 till Thursday ?Why the APHC chairman, Molvi Umar Farooq, did not take the lead in organising the protest march to Lal Chowk on the Republic Day and instead preferred to support the JKLF programme?
These are some of the questions that are debated within and outside the state of Jammu and Kashmir when the separatists have been seen always in the lead while announcing their programmes on protest rallies and shutdowns. Those who feel intrigued over the JKLF silence over its programme on staging a protest march on January 26 in Srinagar argue that he BJP and its youth wing had announced the programme of hoisting the tricolour at Lal Chowk on India's Republic Day over a week ago. Was the JKLF Chief, Mohd. Yasin Malik, waiting for the launching of the Ekta Yatra from Kolkata? It seems so because the yatra was flagged off by the BJP Chief, Nitin Gadkari, on Wednesday and Malik announced his programme for countering the plan of the Sangh Parivar on Thursday.
If it was so does it mean that Malik had no programme of staging a protest march in Lal Chowk on January 26 ?Presumably Malik had no plan on marching to Lal Chowk and the idea was conceived after the Ekta Yatra was launched from Kolkata on Wednesday. Or was the idea conceived only after Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah, warned the Sangh parivar against its plan of hoisting the national flag on the Republic Day? Was Mohd. Yasin Mailk impressed by Omar's statement in which he said that the Sangh Parivar would be held responsible for any untoward incident in Kashmir on the Republic Day if the BJP stuck to its flag hoisting plan? And if it was so was the JKLF Chief motivated by the Chief Minister's reaction against the BJP's flag hoisting plan ?
Keen watchers of the Kashmir scene believe that neither the JKLF Chief would have announced his plan of staging a protest march in Lal Chowk nor the APHC chairman would have endorsed Malik's plan had not Omar Abdullah fired his first salvo against the BJP and its youth wing. This way a situation has developed in Kashmir where it would not be only a tussle between the state Government and the Sangh Parivar but a tug-of war between the BJP and the JKLF.
Had not the JKLF announced its Lal Chowk march it would have been difficult for Omar Abdullah, indeed politically unwise, to impose blanket ban on the Ekta yatra in Kashmir thereby preventing the activists of the Sangh Parivar from hoisting the national flag. Now with JKLF in a mood to fight it out with the BJP Omar's job of imposing a blanket ban on both the marches, the Ekta yatra and the Lal Chowk march by the JKLF, seem to have been made easier than before.
Kashmir watchers are of the opinion that had not Omar Abdullah reacted sharply against the BJP plan on hoisting the tricolour at Lal Chowk there would have not been any major law and order problem even if a dozen activists of Sangh parivar managed to reach Lal chowk and hoisted the tricolour. That possibility is over. One expects major development if the plans of both the JKLF and the BJP are allowed to be executed without any action by the Government. And unfortunately if not anybody else the Chief Minister has, by his reaction against the Ekta Yatra, seemingly kept Srinagar city out of bounds for the nationalist forces.
Will the activists of Sangh Parivar accept the new challenges posed by the Chief Minister and the separatists as far as their programme of hoisting the tricolour in Lal Chowk is concerned? There is no doubt that the BJP plan was seen by many as nothing more than a political gimmick. It is so because why only Lal Chowk has been selected by the Sangh Parivar for hoisting the national flag?
Whatever arguments the BJP leadership advances in support of the flag hoisting plan one thing seems to be clear that Omar Abdullah has exploited it in a bid to woo those people in the Kashmir valley who treat any anti-Sangh parivar strategy or plan somewhat sacrosanct. |
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