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| BJP collapse leads to leadership crisis in Jammu region? | | | With BJP showing signs of a major collapse after the conflict between the group receiving patronage from the party high command and the one led by Prof. Chaman Lal Gupta who has been expelled from the party along with six other MLAs on charge of having allegedly indulged in cross voting during the Legislative Council elections held in Jammu over a year ago the region of Jammu is faced with a leadership crisis.
In fact there is, at present, neither any towering political leader or a group of influential and powerful politicians nor any political organisation that could be considered an effective forum for safeguarding the political rights of the Jammuites.The lack of effective leadership in Jammu is nothing new but the way the quality of leadership having experienced down the hill journey has really worried people of the Jammu region. It should be a cause of worry for the people of the Jammu region because despite sporadic clamor the level of regional discrimination has not shown any signs of decrease.It has been seen that lack of effective political leadership is directly linked with rise and fall in the level of regional discrimination.
Since the Congress, which for some reasons could have assumed the shape of a Jammu centric organisation,has been keen to share power with one of the two Kashmir centric political parties it has not been able to project the case and problems of the Jammuites. Between 2002 and 2008 the Cong- ress shared power with the PDP, which is as good a Kashmir centric party as the National Conference is. Right from 2008 the Congress has been sharing power with the National Conference. Hence the scope for the Congress is quite limited or restricted as far as its potential for pleading in favour of ending regional discrimination of the Jammuites.
Hence people expected the vacuum, created by the Congress helplessness, to be filled by the BJP.Such expectations have been grounded after the raging conflict in the state unit of the BJP.A stage has come when people suspect BJP dissidents to be functioning as "B" team of the National Conference. Those who hold such a view dish out the role of the Assembly Speaker which allowed the suspended MLAs to escape disqualification.
After the virtual collapse of the BJP one had expected the Panthers Party to fight for the rights of the Jammuites.It has been doing so but in view of its limited reach and areas of influence it has not succeeded in sending shivers down the spine of the ruling coalition leadership.What seems to be interesting is the way the Congress has failed to cash on the downfall of the BJP and the National Conference leadership having succeeded in organising a burial for the BJP.
And if there is any beneficiary of the collapse of the BJP in the Jammu region it is the PDP. The BJP could have fortified its political roots in the Jammu region by campaigning against regional discrimination because its vote bank in the Kashmir valley has been very very weak and small.
On the other hand if the Jammuites expect the NC and the PDP to fight against raw deal being given to the Jammuites they are wrong because both the PDP and the NC have their vote bank in the Kashmir valley. Now that the dissidents, led by Prof. Gupta,are on the offensive by pleading for the disqualification of four MLAs the scope for reconciliation between the two factions has become bleak. Hence the Jammuites need to find an alternative to the BJP. |
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