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| BJP president proposes, Working Committee disposes | | Omar Under Attack | | Neha
Jammu, Oct 23: That the leadership of the state unit of the BJP consists of confused and directionless persons and that one leader says one thing and another altogether a different thing on the same issue was known to everyone in the state. That the state BJP has no definite opinion on any of the issues facing the state was, and is, also too well-known.
That the state BJP leaders were a divided house and that they were making contradictory statements on the same issue became more than evident when the state BJP president Shamsher Singh held a press conference in Jammu only to dissociate himself and his party from the statements made by the party chief spokesperson that Chief Minister Omar Abdullah must resign in the wake of the serious allegations being levelled by everyone, including the allegation that the Chief Minister was responsible for death of NC loyalist Syed Mohammad Yousuf. Manhas told media persons that the BJP was not for the resignation of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and that what he wanted was a CBI probe into the circumstances leading to the death of Yousuf. He, in fact, publicly snubbed his chief spokesperson thus indicating that the BJP leaders were working independently of each other. In the process, Manhas ridiculed himself and the party spokesperson and made the BJP a laughing stock.
The BJP chief spokesperson had, it needs to be recalled, given the people to understand that the BJP was in complete accord with the PDP which had repeatedly expressed the view that the Chief Minister, his father and Union Minister for Renewable Energy Farooq Abdullah and Minister of State (Home) Nasir Aslam Wani (Sogami) must resign in the "interest of justice". It then appeared that the BJP really meant business and that those who used to say that the BJP was the C-team of the NC were absolutely wrong. There is a section of enlightened people which believes that "there are certain NC supporters and sympathizers within the state BJP who watch the interests of Farooq Abdullah and Omar Abdullah for personal reasons and that it was they who worked for the victory of Farooq Abdullah in the 2009 Rajya Sabha elections and victory of the NC candidates in the 2009 and 2011 Legislative Council elections". What they say is not a figment of imagination. What they say is a fact. A section of the BJP did support the NC candidates in the Rajya Sabha and Legislative Council elections. It would not be out of place to mention that there are people who still believe that "even in the today's BJP there are those persons who supported Farooq Abdullah and others in the various elections". The BJP has expelled from the party seven MLAs on the ground that they cross-voted in the 2011 Legislative Council elections.
Do other state BJP leaders and members of the BJP Working Committee endorse what Manhas said while dissociating himself from what the party chief spokesperson had said about the Chief Minister and the NC-Congress coalition government when the death of Yousuf had created a stir across the state and the country with everyone demanding the Chief Minister's head? The answer is a big NO. Yesterday, the BJP Working Committee adopted an amended political resolution and the amendment was to the effect that the Omar Abdullah-led coalition government must resign. And, one of the issues which made the Working Committee demand the resignation of Omar Abdullah and his government was the death of Yousuf. The resolution was moved by BJP chief spokesperson Dr Jitendra Singh and the amendment to the official resolution was moved by Ashok Khajuria, MLA representing Jammu East in the Assembly.
What does all this signify? This signifies a confused and muddled thinking in the state BJP. Significantly, the resolution was adopted in the presence of Manhas who went back on his earlier statement and supported the amended resolution. In fact, the Working Committee met under his chairmanship. Poor Manhas! This is the BJP. It's no wonder then that nobody in the state takes any of the BJP's statements seriously. The BJP needs to set its house in order. |
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