Jammu, Nov 07: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national general secretary, Tarun Chugh on Thursday warned the Omar Abdullah-led government against “murdering the mandate of democracy” by resorting to “disruptive and violent” means.
Reacting strongly to the BJP members being marshalled out of the Assembly while they were “trying to voice dissent” against the resolution on Article 370, Chugh said it was a “blatant attempt to stifle the voice of the people”.
He took strong exception that the AIP MLA Khursheed Ahmad Sheikh was allowed to carry a banner inside the Assembly house with a message “endorsing” the NC government resolution. “There seemed to be an undercover attempt to revive terrorism in J&K in the name of Article 370,” he said.
The BJP leader questioned Congress’s silence on the entire matter. “It seemed that the NC and the Congress had joined hands to disrupt the democratic mandate in J&K and to get terrorism back in the Union Territory,” he said.
“Chief Minister Omar Abdullah is making a crass attempt to subvert the democratic institutions just to catch the media’s eyes and, more importantly, to please his master across the border,” Chugh alleged. “The BJP firmly stood by the unity and integrity of J&K and will firmly foil all nefarious attempts to bring back the dark days in J&K.”
The BJP leader appealed to the Abdullah government to “give up” its “pro-Pakistan agenda” and start working on policies and programmes to help the people of J&K.
