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| NC ridicules BJP, asks it to keep quiet | | Succinct Observation | | Neha
JAMMU, Jan 19: The other day, the state unit of BJP held a press conference to express its opinion on the performance of the NC-led coalition government in Jammu and Kashmir. It was addressed by none other than the president of the party. The BJP president dubbed the state government as non-performing and dismissed as a bundle of lies the official document containing information on what the state government had done during the past three years. The document, compendium, was issued or made public on January 5, the day the Omar Abdullah completed three years in office as chief minister.
It was an irony of sorts that the NC hit back overlooking the fact that it was the same BJP, which had put at stake everything, including its very credibility and legitimacy, in 2009 and 2011, to ensure the victory of the NC candidates in the Rajya Sabha and Legislative Council elections. The NC should have taken the BJP's criticism as something very normal or in a friendly spirit, but it thought it otherwise and ridiculed it saying that a party which had failed to discharge its obligations towards the people who had for the first time in 2008 elected as many as 11 BJP MLAs has no right to speak against the ruling party. The NC should have expressed sympathy with the poor and under-severe-attack state BJP leadership for the simple reason that this party had to expel as many as 7 MLAs who, according to it, cross-voted to see the NC-Congress candidates through to escape the people's wrath. But the NC did not reciprocate the goodwill gesture of the BJP, gesture that has rendered this party unreal and ineffective for all practical purposes. It would be not be an overstatement if someone may say so that the BJP right now is non-existent.
One may or may not endorse the clam of the NC leader that the NC-led coalition government had done exceedingly well during the past three years. In fact, the main opposition PDP and the JKNPP both have pooh-poohed the claim of the Chief Minister that he did many things in the state and dismissed the government as a total failure. Even the Congress leaders and workers, barring Congress ministers, have expressed dissatisfaction over the way the coalition government functioned after January 5, 2009. The truth is that the Congress leaders and workers have no love lost for the NC-led coalition government. Leave aside the negative attitude of the PDP, the JKNPP and even the Congress towards the NC because this is not the issue under scrutiny.
The issue under focus is what the NC leader said about the state BJP president, or for that matter the state BJP. No one can dispute what he said about the BJP. The BJP has indeed failed its constituency and become a laughing stock. There is hardly any political person in Jammu province who speaks high of the state BJP. On the contrary, each and every politically conscious person in this province shares the view that the BJP has not only failed its constituency, but also humiliated it by making common cause with those against whom it consistently fought and sought the people's mandate.
There is a lesson for the BJP to learn from what the NC leadership said about it and the lesson is that it should activate itself, identify itself with the people's cause and fight for it relentlessly, go to the people and tender an unconditional apology and hold out a solemn commitment that it would not flirt with the NC and the Congress. The BJP cadres are there. They are holding back because of their leadership. They want the party leadership to act and follow the line the BJP used to follow before 1998, when the BJP captured power in New Delhi. They want the BJP to follow and preach the ideology they used to preach before 1998. They also want the BJP to focus their attention on the neglected Jammu province. They do not want the BJP leadership taking recourse to press statements and press conference; they want definite action on the ground. It is difficult to say if the present BJP leadership would respect the sentiments of the party rank and file and the people as a whole and do what the BJP cadres what the BJP leadership to do. In any case, the NC has hit the nail on the head.
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