BJP’s criminal silence over Amarnathji, Vaishno Deviji Yatras intriguing: Rana

Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 17: National Conference Provincial President Devender Singh Rana today questioned the criminal silence of the BJP over controversial directives of the National Green Tribunal on the conduct of revered pilgrimages of Shri Amarnathji and Shri Mata Vaishno Deviji in Jammu and Kashmir.
“It is intriguing to see the self-proclaimed defenders of Hinduism hiding behind the NGT directives to play with the religious sentiments and causing havoc to the State’s economy in general and the Jammu region in particular”, Rana said in a statement issued from Sher-e-Kashmir Bhavan here this afternoon.
He said by virtue of ruling the country and the state, the BJP should have taken lead against the illogical directives that subjects the matters of faith to various riders in terms of observing silence in the holy cave shrine of Shri Amarnathji and reducing the number of pilgrims to globally famous Shri Mata Vaishno Deviji.
By remaining mute, the BJP seems to be in agreement with the NGT orders, he said and cautioned that this nexus will meet resistance of the people, whose patience cannot be taken for granted. He decried the BJP’s hypocrisy, saying the party misuses and abuses religion as per its political exigencies.
The Provincial President said the BJP stands exposed for its indifference towards the developments taking place by singling out these two pilgrimages and recalled how its leaders generated euphoria during 2008. “The euphoria of 2008 and the present muteness speaks volumes about the party and unveils its ugly agenda”, he added.
Rana said reduction in the pilgrimage to Mata Vaishno Deviji will halt the economic activity in Jammu and Katra hugely and other places of the region substantially. Many of those engaged with religious tourism will be rendered jobless, adding to the burgeoning problem of unemployment, aggravated by the preset PDP-BJP dispensation during the past three years, he added.
While pinning hopes with Governor N. N. Vohra in prevailing over the NGT to withdraw these orders, in his capacity as Chairman of the SASB and SMVDSB, Rana regretted the sheer indifference of the BJP partnered Government in the State. He said the people would democratically and peacefully foil anti-yatra measures, not only for retaining the traditional process of pilgrimages but also to foil the attempts of weakening Jammu economy.

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