NEW DELHI: Strongly condemning what it described as the double standards of BJP, the JKNPP held a massive demonstration in front of the BJP Office in New Delhi on Tuesday. The protesters led by Harsh Dev Singh, Chairman JKNPP, Balwant Singh Mankotia, State President JKNPP and Yashpal Kundal, State President, Young Panthers raised slogans of “Bharat Mata Ki Jai, BJP Hai Hai, Dogali Rajneeti Nahin Chalegi… Nahin Chalegi.”
A strong contingent of police comprising more than 100 police personnel pounced upon JKNPP leaders, arrested them and detained them in Parliament Street Police Station.
Harsh Dev, while taking a dig on the BJP, expressed his skepticism over the criminal silence of the saffron party of J and K State over the sedition row.
He said that in a dangerous time where the whole country was burning with outrage, the J and K unit of BJP meekly surrendered before the commands of PDP for the lust of power.
He reminisced that following the formation of the PDP-BJP coalition government, the Saffron Party remained tight lipped over the release of a separatist leader Masrat Alam by the incumbent Chief Minister who was detained for inciting sedition and spewing venom against the country in Kashmir.
He said that during the 10 months of unholy regime there were several occasions when ISIS and Pakistan flags were waved in Kashmir amid anti India and pro Pak slogans but the State BJP cowardly surrendered to the whims of Kashmiri leaders.
He asked the BJP that why those anti national elements were not booked under sedition and where was its nationalistic character when they were allowed to go scot free.
He dared the State BJP to agitate on the issue emanated from the death anniversary of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru or else face the wrath of the nationalist Dogras.
Flabbergasted by the dual stand of the BJP over the JNU row, Harsh maintained that the saffron brigade had become power corrupt and put its kernel philosophy at stake by remaining dumb over the issue only to explore another opportunity to ally with the PDP which always supported the Separatists and favoured dialogue with them.
He wondered how could BJP cobble up with the PDP clan and coronate Mehbooba Mufti as the Chief Minister who glorified Afzal Guru as a Kashmiri hero and remained a staunch supporter and sympathizer of other separatists and anti-national elements. Among those who were present and spoke on the occasion and were arrested included Gagan Pratap, S. Paramjit Marshal, Purshottam Parihar, Balbir Singh Happy, Mohan Lal, Sohan Lal, Amar Deep, Arun Dev Singh and Varun Jamwal.