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| J&K BJP's resolution on Gilgit-Baltistan | | Contradicting Vajpayee -- II | | Rustam
JAMMU, May 2: That those who were raising fingers against the RSS proved right can be seen from what its 'great ideologue' Tarun Vijay shamelessly did in Delhi on January 19. Tarun Vijay these days also represents the BJP in the Rajya Sabha. The Director of the RSS-founded Shyama Prasad Mookerjee Research Foundation (SPMRF) exposed the RSS and its questionable approach towards Jammu and Kashmir in general and the exiled Kashmiri Hindus in particular, the day he organized a discussion to mark two decades of what he himself described as the "most atrocious exile (read migration of the miniscule minority of Kashmiri Hindus from their original habitat in 1990) in the world."
To the astonishment of all who received the invitations, Tarun Vijay provided the SPMRF platform to Madhu Kishwar, editor of the defunct Manushi and fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, who organized a day-long seminar on Nov. 7, 2009 at Teen Murti Bhavan, jointly with the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library.
This was an out-and-out anti-India and anti-Kashmiri Hindu forum. The star invitee was the famed terrorist Yasin Malik, and of course, the range of separatists, secessionists, pro-Pakistan and autonomy-wallahs of the Kashmir political spectrum. (As in the rest of India, there are available secularists among Kashmiri Hindus as well; were it not so Nehru would not have succeeded in messing things up to the extent he did).
Among the few genuine Hindu Kashmiri voices invited was Nancy Kaul, convener, Daughters of Vitasta, and a leading activist of the exiled and aggrieved community in Delhi. Nancy Kaul was crudely interrupted when she began reading her paper by both Madhu Kishwar and her co-chair, Ram Jethmalani, and rudely muffled. (Ram Jethmalani also represents the BJP in the Rajya Sabha and heads controversial Kashmir Committee.) This is the Kishwar whom Tarun Vijay saw fit to invite to tarnish the memory and sacrifice of Shyama Prasad Mookerjee!
Many sane voices cajoled the Shyama Prasad Mookerjee Research Foundation to politely dis-invite Madhu Kishwar and not taint the memory of the great martyr by providing the Foundation platform to a known supporter of Pakistan and Kashmiri separatists, including dreaded terrorist Yasin Malik. It is pertinent to recall here that the Teen Murti seminar was exclusively to promote the self-rule doctrine, as can be attested from Kishwar's own official report of the same.
Sadly nothing came of these sincere and strenuous efforts. Tarun Vijay stuck to his mind-boggling decision, possibly under pressure from unknown mentors, one of whom personally apologized to Nancy Kaul for the decision and assured that such 'mistakes' would not happen in future. He agreed that allowing such persons to share the pious platform with the new BJP national president Nitin Gadkari and former J&K Governor Jagmohan was politically unacceptable in Hindutva circles.
As expected, Madhu Kishwar did not confine her speech to lamenting the tragedy that befell Kashmiri Hindus in 1990, and used the opportunity to try to advocate self-rule for Kashmiri Muslims. This was vehemently resisted by Nancy Kaul, supported by Sandhya Jain, and these valiant ladies later articulated their intellectual (not personal) opposition to the event at Jain's website www.vijayvaani.com (which has been playing a splendid role exposing the misdeeds of all engaged in anti-India activities).
Privately, Tarun Vijay defended his decision to invite Madhu Kishwar despite stiff opposition from many of his own colleagues, on grounds that higher ups in the Jammu RSS had suggested her name. If true, this may be a dangerous indication that some entrenched interests within the RSS, as in the BJP, are secretly yielding to the West-funded balkanisation industry. This does not augur well for the nation and the Hindu community, which is already at the receiving end of so much treasonous activity.
Is not the April 29 J&K BJP's resolution on Gilgit-Baltistan a negation of the Vajpayee line? Indeed, it is? The question is: Will the State BJP leadership be able to persuade the party high command to discard the dangerous Vajpayee doctrine and pursue a line the BJP used to pursue before it captured power in New Delhi after compromising its ideology and stand on Jammu and Kashmir? Another question to be asked is: Will the State BJP leadership be able to neutralize the influence of Ram Jethmalani, Tarun Vijay and others of their ilk in the BJP and the RSS who have been consistently promoting the cause of Pakistan and Kashmiri separatists? The local BJP leadership will have to work very hard to prove that it really meant what it said in its resolution on Gilgit-Baltistan. People are watching. (Concluded) |
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