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| Jethmalani of BJP outrages nation, hails Mirwaiz | | Hina-Geelani-Farooq Meeting | | Rustam
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, July 27: BJP veteran and former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee is unwell for quite sometime now. Nobody, except a few BJP leaders, has seen him since 2005. However, there are persons in BJP who are trying their level best to force down the nation's throat the Vajpayee Kashmir doctrine - compromise the Indian position in Jammu & Kashmir to befriend Pakistan and keep the Kashmiri separatists and fundamentalists in good humour. Remember, it was Vajpayee who extended the hand of friendship to Pakistan from Kashmir when Mufti Mohammad Sayeed was ruling the state overlooking all the unpardonable Pakistani sins, including the 1999 Pakistani intrusion in Kargil and the December 13, 2001 Parliament terrorist attack.
One of the senior BJP leaders who have been seeking to force down the nation's throat the Vajpayee doctrine is BJP MP from Rajasthan and former Union Minister Ram Jethmalani. Vajpayee doctrine is a replica of the former Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf's four-point Jammu & Kashmir solution - demilitarization, division of Jammu province along Chenab River on communal basis, self-governance or maximum possible autonomy and India-Pakistan joint control over Jammu & Kashmir. The Congress-led UPA Government has been pursuing this line ever since May 2004, when it captured power at the centre. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who like Inder Kumar Gujral, Jethmalani, L K Advani, Kuldip Nayar, Rajinder Sachhar, N N Vohra, Kushwant Singh, Burkha Dutt, to mention only a few, are refugees from Pakistan, is doing its level best to implement the Vajpayee line. In fact, all these persons support the Vajpayee line one way or the other.
One would not cross the line if one may say so that the BJP's stand on Jammu & Kashmir is more dangerous than any other party of all-India character.
That there are persons in the BJP who are committed to giving effect to the Vajpayee doctrine and jeopardizing the paramount national interests could be seen from what Jethmalani has been doing to please Kashmir and APHC chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, who only represents himself and a microscopic minority in Srinagar city. Jethmalani himself has acknowledged that he revived his otherwise defunct Kashmir Committee recently under the inspiration of Pervez Musharraf. Again, that he is also out to further the Pakistani cause in Jammu and Kashmir and persuade the authorities in New Delhi to accommodate the demands as put forth by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq could be seen from what he told to private TV news channel Times Now yesterday while participating in the News Hour Debate on the meeting between the visiting Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar and Kashmiri separatists like Geelani and Mirwaiz.
The meeting between Hina and Mirwaiz and between her and Geelani had caused a sort of furore in New Delhi with many concerned Indians rebuking the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister for their indifferent attitude to what the Pakistani foreign Minister and the Kashmiri separatists did in the national capital to jeopardize the national interests. But Jethmalani defended to the hilt the anti-India activities indulged in by Hina and Kashmiri separatists saying there was nothing wrong in what they did. Besides, he hailed Mirwaiz saying Miraiz, unlike Geelani, stands for a "honourable solution." He admitted that Geelani and Mirwaiz represent Pakistan India but added so what and went on to say that "we have to resolve the issue." He hailed Mirwaiz as a "moderate" leader. So much so that he dismissed another panelist Maroof Raza - expert in strategic affairs - as "stupid" and anchor of the debate Arnab Goswami as a "child." Both Goswami and Raza were critical of what Hina and Kashmiri separatists did on the eve of foreign minister-level talks (talks will take place today) to "vitiate" the atmosphere.
This is the BJP and this is the stand of BJP on Pakistan, which has been bleeding our nation with a thousand-cut almost everyday. |
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