Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 3: Accusing the BJP leadership of engineering communal divide in J&K on the eve of elections and promoting hatred on the basis of caste and religion, NPP activists, led by the party Chairman and former Minister Harsh Dev Singh, held a strong protest at Press Club Jammu on Wednesday.
The protestors, raising slogans against the BJP leadership, sought appropriate punitive action against all those who were trying to polarize the society on communal lines to subserve their vested political interests and other nefarious designs.
Dubbing the utterances of BJP’s ex-MLC against a particular community as an absurd act of histrionics, Mr Singh said that BJP owed an explanation to the entire citizenry for such divisive and profane remarks made by its senior leader. “It was the worst orchestration on the part of a senior leader of a ruling party which had failed to illicit appropriate response from the BJP leadership except a casual statement of condemnation only as a window dressing for the gullible,” he said and added that rebuking a community as a whole was a serious offence and needed to be taken due cognizance by the powers that be.
Harsh said that having failed to deliver and consequently to face the public outrage, the BJP was trying to polarize the society so as to retain its dominance in the political landscape. And in doing so, he added, its leadership seemed to have completely discarded the idea of inclusive and all encompassing India which was invariably cherished by the likes of Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Advani.
Strongly condemning the communalization of politics for personal gains, Mr. Singh said that the political leadership needed to draw inspiration from the inclusive, pluralistic world view as encapsulated by our great saints and scholars in the slogan of ‘Vasudeva Kutumbakam’.
Prominent among others, who spoke on the occasion, included JKNPP general secretary and former Minister Yash Paul Kundal, Gagan Pratap Singh and Parshotam Parihar.
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