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| Chaman throws a bombshell, accuses “internal forces” of joining hands with votaries of pre-1953 status | | Serious Allegation | |
STARK REALITY
RUSTAM
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Apr 24: “Internal and external forces” have joined hands with those seeking for Jammu and Kashmir the pre-1953 political-constitutional position…His suspension from the party is a conspiracy. The Conspiracy has been hatched by certain internal and external forces. Their objective is to weaken the BJP in the state. Some forces within the party and also from outside are involved in this game plan as they want to get the recommendations of Interlocutors on restoration of autonomy implemented in the State. As the BJP was a great stumbling block in this process, these forces tried to disintegrate the party in the State…The BJP fought for the national cause since the Praja Parishad movement under the leadership of Shyama Prasad Mookerjee and 15 people sacrificed their lives for the abolition of permit system and total integration of J&K with Union of India. But the forces inimical to BJP and national cause are trying to divide the Party for restoration of autonomy to the State to which it was opposed.”
Who has said so? Who has made these unnerving and alarming revelations? Prof Chaman Lal Gupta, who, along with six other BJP MLAs, was suspended from the party on April 20 by the BJP high command on the ground that they had violated the party whip and voted for the coalition’s candidates. He made these revelations during the press conference yesterday at Ashoka Hotel, Jammu. He pleaded not guilty but also expressed regret that the party high command disgraced him overlooking the sacrifices he had made for the party. As a matter of fact, he expressed his unhappiness over the manner in which he and other BJP MLAs were humiliated and suspended and declared that he continued to be the Leader of the BJP Legislature Party.
Prof Gupta says that “some forces within the party and also from outside are involved in this game plan as they want to get the recommendations of Interlocutors on restoration of autonomy implemented in the State.” Accepted. In fact, Prof Gupta does make a point when he talks about the unity between “some forces within the party and outside” and suggests that they have made common cause with a view to ensuring the segregation of the state from the political and constitutional organization of India. For, certain top-ranking BJP leaders, including the former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, his External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh and his National Security Advisor Brijesh Mishra, had worked in tandem with the Pakistani establishment and thought of granting “maximum possible autonomy” to the state, dividing Jammu province along the Chenab River on purely communal lines, rendering the borders irrelevant and demilitarizing the state. They had thought of appeasing and pleasing Pakistan and the Kashmiri autonomists as early as in March 1999.
What transpired at Colombo in March 1999 is not a secret. Suffice it to say that Jaswant Singh had told his Pakistani counterpart that the BJP-led NDA Government was willing to accept the Musharraf’s formula as a durable and reasonable solution to the “Kashmir problem.” Similarly, what Brijesh Mishra had told Barkha Dutt of NDTV 24X7 is also not a secret. He had told Dutt in the presence of Omar Abdullah, Umar Farooq and a former Pakistani diplomat that “we had been working on greater autonomy since years.” Besides, it is also too well-known that the former Deputy Prime Minister and the BJP veteran L. K. Advani had told a Pakistani delegation after the collapse of the BJP-led NDA Government in May 2004 that “Islamabad should wait for sometime; we will again come back to power in New Delhi; we will take up the issue thereafter; we can give you more as compared to the Congress party because the Hindus would not oppose us; and so on and so forth.”
Prof Gupta appears to be correct when his views are considered in the light of what the BJP-led Government did and what Advani said after the fall of the ragtag Vajpayee-led government. However, the questions remains: Why did Prof Gupta take such a long time to inform the general public that certain forces within the party had been working for the restoration of the pre-1953 position? Why did he wait for his suspension to take place and share his anxiety and concern over the issue of far reaching consequences? It is for him to explain his position and he should explain it in order to set the record straight; he should also reveal their names.
Another issue: Accepted that some forces from outside induced the forces within the party to weaken the BJP in the state. But it was not altogether unexpected. The negative forces in Kashmir have all along tried to weaken the nationalist movement in Jammu province. Hence, what he said was not at all surprising. What was surprising, however, was the fact that the BJP MLAs didn’t hold their ground. It’s no use blaming the forces from outside. Blame those BJP MLAs who betrayed their constituencies and the national cause for the sake of easy money. It is they who have jeopardized the paramount national interests and brought bad name to the party.
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