Hawkish BJP and defiant Kashmir

Though the massive mandate to BJP for second term under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi could be used for changing the challenges into opportunities for furtherance of the prime objectives of peace and political stability in Jammu and Kashmir state but unfortunately the Modi government has started its second term with yet another controversy over yet another contentious issue –the delimitation of the assembly constituencies in Jammu & Kashmir state. So yet again an unwanted controversy has been triggered by an unwanted provocative tendency shown by none else than the BJP President and the new Home Minister Amit Shah. Knowing that pushing warring parties into legal wrangles over article 370 and article 35 A have not taken the central and the state governments nearer to the paths of reconciliation and political stability in Jammu & Kashmir state, the new Home Minister should not have made a hasty remark over as sensitive an issue as delimitation of assembly constituencies in Jammu and Kashmir is and more so in the absence of a popular government in the state. Knowing the failures of BJP in running a coalition government with PDP for a full six year term,the political wisdom demands that Amit Shah both as BJP President and as well Union Home Minister reaches out to all the stake holders of Jammu and Kashmir state to dig out the failures of his party in running a coalition government after getting 25 seats in a house of 87 members for the first time in seventy years of electoral politics in the only muslim majority state of the country .
While the fact remains that the massive mandate to BJP under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi saw a phase of phase of insecurity and instability taking a heavy toll of the hapless populations of Jammu & Kashmir in presence of a popular government of which BJP was a part, the recent unwanted utterances of the BJP Chief and the Union Home Minister Amit Shah over the delimitation of assembly constituencies in Jammu & Kashmir show that the saffron party’s top brass instead of taking lessons from its failures in running an alliance for full term of six year tends to pursue the same policies of beaten tracks which failed it to restore political stability and stabilize the atmosphere of security in presence of a popular government run in alliance with the BJP. Though Prime Minister can use the massive mandate given to his party BJP for changing the challenges into opportunities of religious and regional bonding in Jammu & Kasmir state, but letting the ideological conflicts to persist by the hawk of BJP would further the cause of poarisation and not political reconciliation in Jammu & Kashmir state.