Buoyed over the ‘huge vote share’ it got across J&K in the recently held LokSabha polls, the BhartiyaJanata Party, state unit, Sunday asserted to form the next government in the state on its own.
At a marathon meeting at Jammu, the BJP working committeepassed a resolution to this extent. The meeting was chaired by BJP state chiefRavinder Raina, while senior BJP leader and minister of state in the PMO,DrJitendera Singh also attended the meeting. According to the resolution passedin the daylong meeting, the working committee thanked the people of J&K andthe party workers for the “historic mandate of 46 per cent vote share” andbagging of three Parliamentary seats in Jammu and Ladakh by record margins.
“The meeting noted that such a huge mandate enjoins upon itthe greater responsibility since the people would have much greater hopes andaspirations from the party,” reads the copy of the resolution.
“The meeting resolved to ensure that our electedrepresentatives (MPs) remain in constant touch with their constituencies bynominating their representatives and by opening their offices in theirrespective constituencies apart from personal visits and interactions.”
The resolution stated that the meeting demanded de-freezingof one-third and 24 reserved seats for Pakistan administered Kashmir and allotthem to Jammu region where displaced PaK residents are settled since 1947-48.
“The working committee demanded political reservation forthe Schedule Tribes of the state,” the resolution states.
The meeting, as per the resolution, expressed its serousconcerned over the “gross injustice” done to the Ladakh and Jammu regions byprevious NC governments through “inequitable delimitation of assembly. “The meetingreinforced the party’s demand for fresh delimitation,” the resolution reads.
The working committee resolved to carry forward the”momentum of the Parliamentary polls and work tirelessly to form the nextgovernment in the State on its own.”
A source privy to the meeting, said that MoS in PMO and thenewly elected BJP MP from Udhampur-Kathua LS seat, DrJitendera Singh in hisaddress stressed that BJP’s fight was against the “menace of militancy notagainst Kashmiris.”
“Singh laid special emphasis that BJP’s priority is to takeevery single citizen of all the three regions along to fulfill its mission ofmaking J&K a model state. He said that the recently held LokSabha polls saw17 lakh voters voting in favour of BJP,” a source, present in the meeting toldGreater Kashmir.
“Singh maintained that all these 17 lakh voters must be mademembers of the BJP in all three regions of the State.”
Speaking on the occasion, BJP State chief Ravinder Rainabriefed the meeting that each representative must reach out to people acrossthe State.
“He (Raina) stated that BJP was leading in 35 assembly seatsin the recently held LokSabha polls and that this opportunity should be cashedin on to ensure that next government belongs to the BJP alone,” he said.
Talking to Greater Kashmir, BJP general secretary(organization) Ashok Koul said that major decisions were taken in the workingcommittee meeting. “We urged the Governor Satya Pal Malik to take note of theelectricity disruptions in Jammu region during summer and in Kashmir duringwinter and also the early completion of developmental projects in the State,”he said.
“We also made our demanded that the reservation of Assemblyseats for PaK residents should be given to the displaced residents of PaKliving in Jammu region since 1947.”
Present in the meeting, BJP state spokesman Altaf Thakursaid that all the members in the meeting vowed to carry forward the PrimeMinister NarenderaModi’s slogan—”Sab KaSaath, Sab KaVikas,” stating that thistime BJP leadership has added one more word to it “SabhakaVishwas.”
“Our primary focus will be to keep the flock together inJ&K irrespective of caste, creed or religion,” Thakur said.