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Hold assembly elections this year, BJP to ECI

Hold assembly elections this year, BJP to ECI
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Jammu: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has demanded that Election Commission of India should hold assembly elections in the state by the end of this year.
BJP General Secretary Ram Madhav while addressing reporters in Jammu said that the party demands and hopes that Election Commission of India will conduct assembly elections by this year in Jammu and Kashmir.
“We demand, hope and wish that assembly elections should be held in Jammu and Kashmir by this year. BJP is ready for contesting the elections in the state,” Madhav said.
“We believe that people in all the three regions, Jammu, Kashmir and Ladkah, will fully support the BJP in the assembly elections,” he said.
To a question about BJP’s stand on abrogation of Article 370 and Article 35 A, Madhav said that BJP core ideological position is that article 370 should be abrogated.
“Article 370 has been illegally incorporated into the constitution of India. BJP will abrogate the article and we will think over how to go about it,” he said.
“As far as Article 370 is concerned, our ideological commitment is well known. We are committed to repealing it,” said Madhav.
When asked about separatist leaders being called for any talks, Ram Madhav said that Hurriyat is not in a position to dictate when to hold talks.
“There was an offer given to them by the then government. A special interlocutor was appointed and at that time Hurriyat was not willing to talk. They cannot dictate terms and time of the talks,” Madhav said.
“The BJP is a big hope for all the people who love this country and want its development. The BJP under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the only party which can fulfill aspirations of all sections of the society,” he said.
Madhav said the doors of his party are open to all good thinking politicians who want development of their areas.
“We are for equitable development of all the three regions of the state: Jammu, Ladakh and Kashmir. Though Jammu faced discrimination…we are sure that the next government in the state would be of the BJP and Jammu will get justice,” he said.
On anti-India banners attached to an aircraft being displayed over a cricket stadium in England during a World Cup match between India and Sri Lanka on Saturday, Madhav said Pakistani nationals were behind it.
“The Hindu minority in Kashmir faced genocide at the behest of Pakistan and today the same people (Pakistanis) are indulging in propaganda in London and other places. The entire world knows the truth,” he said.
The BJP leader also defended the partial restriction on the movement of civilian traffic on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway, saying the administration took this step to ensure smooth conduct of the Amarnath Yatra.
He appealed to mainstream political parties to extend their support to the governor’s administration to ensure peaceful conclusion of the 46-day yatra.
The authorities have barred civilian traffic on the Qazigund-Nashri stretch of the highway for five-and-a-half hours, from 10 am to 3:30 pm, in order to allow incident-free passage to vehicles carrying Amarnath pilgrims.
The decision drew protests from the National Conference, PDP and CPI(M), besides other stakeholders, especially those affiliated with tourism industry.
Asked about ex-CM Omar Abdullah’s statement that imposing traffic restrictions for safe passage of pilgrims shows “incompetence and laziness” of the state administration, Madhav quipped, “We have seen a lot of incompetence on the part of Farooq Abdullah and Omar Abdullah governments in the past.
“It is no incompetency,” he said. “It is a very competent way of ensuring peaceful and successful completion of the yatra. Better for all these leaders that rather than criticising the government and accusing the administration, they help the administration and the government in successful completion of the yatra,” he said.
“I am sure Mehbooba Mufti and her people will also help the administration in allowing the yatra peacefully.”
He dismissed charges that his party engineered defections in Karnataka leaving the Congress-JD(S) government struggling to survive, but said they are keeping a watch on the developments in the southern state.
The Congress-JD (S) government in Karnataka has plunged into a crisis after 13 lawmakers of the alliance submitted their resignation to the Speaker.
Madhav took a jibe on the spate of resignation within the Congress as well, wondering as to who they are sending their resignation letters to as Rahul Gandhi has already stepped down as party president.
12 Karnataka legislators — nine from the Congress and three from the JD(S) — resigned on Saturday, while Congress MLA Anand Singh had put in is papers on July 1.
“Everybody knows whatever is happening in Karnataka is because of the ambitions of certain leaders of their own parties. It is they who are engineering dissent within their party.
“We are not doing anything there…we are just watching (the developments). It is they who are actually running the coalition, which was (anyway) against the mandate of the people. They come together and tried to run it and today they are fighting among themselves. To blame the BJP is ridiculous,” Madhav said.
The BJP national general secretary was here to welcome in the party fold Mohammad Iqbal Malik, a leader from Darhal area of Rajouri who quit the Congress recently. Malik joined the BJP at its headquarters with his dozens of supporters including party activists, sarpanches and panches.
In his address to the new entrants into the BJP, Madhav said everyday people can see newspaper headlines about resignation of Congress leaders.
In an apparent reference to Jyotiraditya Scindia and Milind Deora’s resignation from their posts in the Congress, he said, “The youth leader from Madhya Pradesh and Mumbai submitted their resignations. But whom did they send their resignation letters to? Gandhi has already resigned from his post and is sitting at home.”
While Scindia resigned as AICC general secretary for Western Uttar Pradesh, Deora quit as Mumbai Congress chief — both taking moral responsibility for the party’s poor electoral show in their respective areas.
“This is the condition of the party (Congress). They are ‘Bhagwan ke Bharose’ (on God’s mercy),” Madhav said, adding nothing good is expected from the party for the country. “It will become history very soon. The future in the country belongs only to the BJP.” (with inputs from PTI)


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