JAMMU, Mar 09:
“National Conference is an old horse responsible for hoodwinking the public opinion always and it has been its pet past time to speak differently at different time at different places”, said Ashwani Kumar Chrungoo, senior BJP and Kashmiri Pandit leader and Incharge, Deptt of Political Affairs and Feedback, BJP-J&K.
He was speaking in a meeting of activists at Jammu today in which he said that the statement of NC President, Farooq Abdullah in reference to ‘that BJP has added sufferences of the common people’ raises certain pertinent questions. One among them is that has the NC, PDP or Congress seriously left any sufference for the BJP to offer to the common people. There used to be no accountability, transparency or answerability during their rule of seven decades in Jammu and Kashmir. The ACB, ED, CBI and NIA cases and consequent actions thereupon against the top leaders of these parties is sufficient an evidence in this connection.
“The tantrums that Maharaja Hari Singh was rightly responsible for creating situations for protection of citizens’ rights in Jammu and Kashmir so far as their rights on land and jobs are concerned raises one more important question which NC should answer. Why then the Muslim Conference later the National Conference raised revolt against the Maharaja and launched the so-called ‘Quit-Kashmir’ movement against him. The activists of NC were later accorded the status of ‘freedom fighters’ in this context”, Chrungoo maintained.
He also said that the maximum damage to the cause of Jammu region and of the minorities of Kashmir valley was inflicted by the National Conference which includes the role and actions of the Chief Minister for the period 1987-90 when terrorism was allowed to grow and spread in the then state. Farooq Abdullah has yet to answer as to why he fled to London abdicating all his responsibilities as the Chief Minister in January 1990.
Chrungoo further added, “it is very easy for anyone to accuse the opponents of using ‘hatred and religion’ in politics. But the matter of the fact is that the NC all along used religion and the podium of Hazratbal shrine to further its ends at the cost of its opponents in politics. It was again the National Conference and Sheikh Abdullah who launched the political narrative of J&K ‘being a Muslim majority state’ and thus should be granted special status in the Indian Union. Article 370 and 35A were the manifestation of the same fake narrative that brought soft separatism and sub-nationalism to play their role to invite fundamentalism, radicalism, social indoctrination, terrorism and uncertainty in the socio-political scenario of the erstwhile state”.
Article 370 and 35A are a thing of the past and no power on earth excepting the Indian parliament, the supreme authority, has the capacity to change the situation. The BJP is deeply committed to its nationalist ideology and it has thus converted its huge mandate of the people into a reality to the charm of every patriot and nationalist of the country. This also realises the dream of the founding fathers of the Indian constitution in respect of complete integration of the Jammu and Kashmir state with the Indian Union on a permanent and everlasting basis, Chrungoo said.