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| Expulsion of cross voters unlikely to help BJP | | Party Of Cross Voters | | Neha
Jammu, Nov 19: The BJP yesterday disqualified six MLAs from membership of the Legislative Assembly for indulging in cross voting in the April 13, 2011 Legislative Council elections. They had allegedly voted for the NC-Congress candidates. The Speaker of the Assembly would announce his decision on 1st December. One doesn't know what his decision would be.
The BJP leadership feels that the expulsion of those who cross voted in the 2011 Legislative Council elections would help it win over the alienated people. This is unlikely to happen. For, it was not for the first time in April this year that the BJP MLAs voted against their own party candidate. The BJP MLAs had voted for the NC candidates earlier also and those who voted for the NC candidate are very much there in the party holding important position. Action had been promised against those who had voted against the party candidate or for the NC candidates, but nothing was done in this regard. This shows that the approach of the BJP leadership is selective. The people are fully aware.
This is the BJP. It says that it plays clean politics. Wrong. It doesn't play politics. It brazenly violates the cardinal principles of politics and its leaders still have the audacity to call themselves clean and upright. Actually, it indulges in politicking for the promotion of personal interests. It is bereft of any ideology. It has no regards whatever for those who vote for it. It has for most of the time deceived its constituencies. Its leaders are as unethical and unscrupulous as they are untrustworthy and undependable. They can even ditch each other. The memories of what one of the BJP legislators did during the Rajya Sabha elections on February 13, 2009 would always remain fresh in people's mind. He had voted against the party candidate, Ashok Vijay Gupta. The said BJP MLA had voted for Dr Farooq Abdullah. Similarly, the memories of what one of its legislators did during the Legislative Council elections on March 7, 2009 to ensure the defeat of the party candidate, Shamsher Singh Manhas, and two of its legislators did to ensure the victory of the Congress-NC candidates would also ever remain fresh in the minds of the people of Jammu.
The BJP leaders have been consistently playing the politics of deception. They say one thing, but do exactly the opposite. They talk of abrogation of Article 370, but remove from the manifesto that portion which deals with this Article. They dismiss the Congress as a "pseudo-secular" party, but brazenly hail Mohammad Ali Jinnah (father and founder of Pakistan and an ardent champion of pernicious two-nation theory) as "secular". They hoodwink and fleece people and say they would construct a magnificent Ram Temple at Ayodhya, but Narendra Modi government would bulldoze in no time over 200 temples in Ahemabad alone. They would say on the eve of elections and during the election campaign that they are for the "Jammu's political empowerment", but they would demand "provincial councils invested with only developmental powers" and join hands with those whose anti-Jammu credentials are too well known. What a cruel joke! In 2008, they would even abandon the provincial council plank. Earlier in 2002, they had voted for the NC-sponsored amendment that banned delimitation of Assembly constituencies in the state for decades together.
The people of Jammu province are fully aware of these and several other acts of omission and commission committed by the BJP leadership and legislators. The party leadership has to work very hard to win back the trust of the people. Expulsion of the six MLAs is alright, but what about those who had cross-voted in the 2009 Rajya Sabha and Legislative Council elections. Will the party also expel them as well? The BJP can win the people's trust provided it is prepared to play the role it used to play before 1998. But the kind of leadership that dominates and controls the party is not that competent and committed. It consists of those who only look after their own personal interests. The truth, in short, is that the state unit of the BJP is passing through a very critical phase. Even Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha, Arun Jaitely, acknowledged this only the other day while addressing a poorly-attended public rally in Jammu. |
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