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| BJP under canopy of confusion in Jammu Kashmir | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, July 24: The state unit of the BJP continues to be under a canopy of confusion following the failure of the party high command in settling the case of seven BJP MLAs who stand suspended from the party since April 20 on charge of having indulged in cross voting during the election on six seats in the Legislative Council on April 13.
The BJP's parliamentary party was so much irked by the violation of the BJP whip issued on the eve of the election that within less than one week of the polling it placed seven MLAs under suspension.
Since then the state unit of the party stands fragmented with a sizeable chunk of party workers and supporters siding with the suspended MLAs. Whether the seven MLAs be allowed to return to the party or not opinion in the higher echelons of the state unit is still
divided.
At one stage the BJP high command is said to have favoured revoking the suspension order served against six MLAs but the step had to be deferred after reports reached Delhi that these six MLAs may not return to the party unless the expulsion order served against
senior leader, Chaman Lal Gupta, was not withdrawn.
Several senior BJP leaders in the state continue to support strict action against the seven MLAs as they had ruptured the standard of discipline for which the BJP is known all over the
country.
However, there are others, not only within the BJP but in the RSS too, who want the party high command to take lenient view. Their plea is that if all the seven MLAs were thrown out of the party the BJP in Jammu and Kashmir may experience major erosion.
Even those who are for strict action against the erring MLAs are highly critical of the current leadership in the party in the state.
They say that the fight between the dissidents and the loyalists in the Congress, erosion in the National Conference had left a scope for the BJP to strengthen its bases in the Jammu region but on account of the internal organizational problems and owing to wrong planning of party affairs by the state chief have not allowed the BJP to cash on Congress erosion.
A senior leader said that during its visit to Srinagar,Doda, Poonch a central BJP delegation members were given to understand that a large number of Muslims were keen to work for the BJP but during the last two months no step had been taken by the state
president and the party high command for strengthening the BJP bases in these areas.(KIP)
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