Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 7: Expressing dismay over the decision of some Jammu based leaders to join a Kashmir centric party being floated by a Kashmiri businessman recently turned politician, JKNPP chairman and former minister Harsh Dev Singh today said that political opportunism of these so called pro- Jammu leaders seemed to have touched a new low.
“Are you strengthening the cause of Jammu or weakening it by joining hands with those who are hell-bent to treat Jammu as their colony?” questioned Singh. He regretted that in their frantic pursuits for greener pastures, these Jammu based leaders had decided to support Kashmiri leadership despite having vowed umpteen times to liberate the people of Jammu from Kashmir’s hegemony. And in the process, they were strengthening those who had all along been promoting separatist ideology and raising the slogans of self rule besides sympathizing with anti-India forces, regretted Singh.
“In their desperation to gain access to corridors of power, they appeared to have abandoned all their principles and pious declarations of empowerment of Jammu,” Singh rued.
“Politics is game of shocks and surprises. It’s often called a hobby for clever characters who change colours faster than chameleons. This is being repeatedly proved in the political landscape of J&K. The political atmosphere of J&K is being made toxic by defectors. The founders of the newly proposed party were the members of PDP and other Kashmir based parties who abandoned their respective parent parties to fulfill their political ambitions. And the Jammu based leaders are jettisoning their parties as well as their pious slogans for their personal expediencies, deliriously oblivious to the damage they would be doing to the cause of Jammu” said Singh.
Advising the Jammu based leaders to desist from the ‘faustian’ bargain, Singh observed that trusting the devil was neither wisdom, nor expediency. Joining the party of defectors would be a Himalayan blunder. Don’t embark upon this self destructive course. Don’t mix politics with business. You will only be shooting yourself in the foot by frolicking with devil incarnate,” asserted Singh.
Appealing the pro- Jammu forces to support and strengthen Panthers Party, Singh said that it alone had the capacity and the strength to confront the anti- Jammu forces and to uphold the Dogra pride and honour which was under threat not only from Kashmir based parties but also the national level parties.
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