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| RSS, supporters demand stringent action against erring BJP MLAs | | | Rustam
JAMMU, Apr 18: RSS of which the BJP is its political organ has upped its ante, described the cross-voting by the 7 BJP MLAs as most "unfortunate" and demanded stringent action against them so that a moral effect is produced and no BJP legislator in the future betrays the people and the cause. "The people of Jammu reposed their confidence in the BJP and increased its tally from 1 (in 2002) to eleven (in 2008), but they ditched the former," the RSS said on Saturday. In fact, Brigadier (Retd) Suchet Singh, the RSS Sang Chalak in Jammu and Kashmir, has expressed these views and what he has said can be legitimately construed as a scathing attack on the BJP legislators. No one can question the retired and upright but enraged and infuriated Brigadier. After all, it was the RSS that has worked day and night to mobilize public opinion in favour of the BJP whose past record was not above-board. It would not be out of place to mention here that story of BJP in Jammu and Kashmir is one of betrayal in the sense that it never practiced what it would tell the people on the eve of elections and during the election campaign. It had broken the promises it solemnly made with impunity.
Another ardent supporter of the RSS and chairman of the Jammu Province People's Forum (JPPF), an amalgam of over two-dozen social, religious and political groups, retired judge Pavitar Singh, has also expressed similar views. In fact, he has gone several steps further and accused the BJP legislators of making common cause with "anti-national forces" (desh darohi taktein). He has asked the party high command to dismiss them from the party. The Shiv Sena (Bal Thakre), the Dogra Kranati Dal and several other organizations, including the RSS's student wing Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), have also expressed similar views and demanded strict action against the erring BJP MLAs. The upshot of their whole argument has been that the BJP has betrayed not only the people of Jammu but has also caused an irreparable damage to the national cause and that the dismissal of the erring legislators alone could satisfy the badly let down people and help the party savage its position.
But this is not all. The BJP workers, besides the second rung BJP leaders and former councilors, are seething with anger. According to insiders, they are so angry that they could even leave the party. (The process has already started in the BJP-represented Nagrota constituency.) They are waiting for what the party high command does to the erring MLAs on April 19. (BJP national president Nitin Gadkari is scheduled to meet all the 11 MLAs and the state BJP president on April 19 in New Delhi and take final decision on their political future.) There are potent reasons to believe that the local BJP workers would quit the party in case the party high command fails to take a definite action against them. They have already held demonstrations at a number of places, including Kathua and Bhadrwah, during the past five days to register their protest against those who have betrayed them and their constituency for the sake of money.
As for the common people, cutting across party lines, they are already up in revolt against the BJP. They have developed an extreme form of hatred towards the BJP legislators as well as towards the party and described the BJP legislators as immoral, corrupt and shameless.
This is the situation and the situation is such that it doesn't leave the party high command with any option other than an action that leads to the expulsion of the erring MLAs from the party and complete overhauling of the state party unit. The general consensus in Jammu is that people must not vote for the BJP that ultimately transfers their votes to the Congress, the NC and similar other outfits during the Rajya Sabha and the Legislative Council elections. Their argument is that the BJP subverted the people's mandate not only in 2011, but it had also subverted the people's democracy or betrayed them in the 2009 Rajya Sabha and the Legislative Council elections by voting in favour of the NC candidates. One cannot but share their perception. |
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