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| Joshi's Jammu visit clears many doubts | | BJP, Kashmir & Interlocutors | | RUSTAM
JAMMU, June 25: BJP veteran and former Union Minister Dr Murli Manohar Joshi's recent visit to the state's winter capital and City of Temples, Jammu, has cleared many doubts. He was in Jammu for two days. He interacted with many people. He also spoke at the BJP headquarters as well as Jammu Club. At the BJP headquarters, he talked about Jammu & Kashmir, about the sacrifices made by Dr Shyama Prasad Mookerjee, and, more importantly, about the misrule, mismanagement and misdeeds of the Congress-led UPA Government. And, at Jammu Club, he talked about Jammu & Kashmir, Pakistan, Pakistan-occupied-Jammu & Kashmir, displaced Kashmiri Hindus and other refugees, Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, China, United States, Afghanistan and, last but not the least, about the interlocutors and their report on Jammu & Kashmir.
Everywhere Joshi gave the people of the state to understand that the BJP considers Jammu & Kashmir as an integral part of India and that no one can dilute the Indian position on this border state; that there is no Kashmir problem; that the Line of Control could not be rendered irrelevant; that the question of trilateral dialogue between New Delhi, Islamabad and Hurriyat leaders doesn't arise at all; that the BJP recognizes that the people of Jammu Pradesh have been discriminated against and that delimitation of assembly constituencies has become imperative; that the BJP considers the interlocutors' report "dangerous and pro-separatist"; and that the interlocutors have committed a grave mistake by terming Pakistan-occupied-Jammu & Kashmir as Pakistan-administered-Jammu & Kashmir and giving an undue importance to the otherwise irrelevant Hurriyat leaders.
Joshi's was indeed a plain-speaking. He was highly critical of Dr Manmohan Singh and his Kashmir policy, Pakistan, United States, China and Hurriyat leaders. He asserted a number of times that Jammu & Kashmir is like other states of the Union and there should be no doubt about it. He didn't spare even those who during the seminar on the interlocutors' report sought to mislead the people saying the interlocutors in their report have acknowledged that "Article 370 has not granted any special status to Jammu & Kashmir". He said Article 370 did grant a special status to the state but on a temporary basis and drew the attention of the people to the fact that those responsible for the incorporation of Article 370 in the Indian Constitution had told the Indian Constituent Assembly in unequivocal terms that Article 370 will become unreal and ineffective in due course of time. Nehru had said: "Ghiste, ghiste ghis jai ga".
The most striking aspect of his whole formulation on Jammu & Kashmir was that he did not even once appreciate the Kashmir policy of Atal Behari Vajpayee, who ruled India for almost six years from 1998 to May 2004. In fact, he indirectly criticized him. The very fact that he took on Dr Manmohan Singh for his Kashmir policy was an indication that he disliked the Kashmir policy of Atal Behari Vajpayee. Criticism of Manmohan Singh's Kashmir policy could be construed as an indictment of Vajpayee as well. For, Dr Manmohan Singh has been simply treading the path Atal Behari Vajpayee charted when he ruled the country. Vajpayee was all out to sellout Kashmir in his desperate bid to please Kashmir and Kashmiri separatists. He failed because the internal situation in Pakistan didn't permit him to strike a truce over Kashmir with the then Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf.
Joshi is not an ordinary BJP leader. He is part of the BJP's highest decision-making body. One can only hope and pray that other leaders of the BJP would conduct themselves in the manner Joshi conducted himself in Jammu, particularly on June 23.
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