BJP appeasing separatists: Jammu party

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, June 20

Ahead of the upcoming J&K political outreach by PM Narendra Modi, a Jammu party has accused the Centre of ignoring the region in the proposed all-party meeting.

Newbie IkkJutt Jammu accused the Centre of “conspiring to permanently enslave Jammu by resurrecting Kashmiri Islamist hegemony”.

Party president Ankur Sharma said the BJP-led Centre had invited Kashmir parties that were “not even registered”, claiming that it was adopting “Nehruvian approach in dealing with political matters of the UT”.

Questioning the list of attendees for the forthcoming meeting, Sharma said voters, while giving 303 seats to the BJP in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, were clear regarding separatists and pseudo-separatist political mainstream of Kashmir.

Accusing the government of deliberately ignoring nationalist, rooted and saner voices of Jammu province, Sharma said the PM had “chosen to sit and talk with subversives, pro-separatists, individuals accused of facilitating terror activities and proclaimed Pakistani flanks”.

Meanwhile, the party has decided to intensify its campaign for a separate statehood for Jammu and division of Kashmir into two UTs with one exclusively for Hindus of Kashmir who suffered the genocide in the 1990s.