Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 17: Strongly reacting to the Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) Chief Saif-ud-Din Soz’s remarks that parties like BJP stood no match to secular credentials of the Congress, BJP State chief spokesperson and National Executive Member Dr. Jitendra Singh said here today that, on the contrary, the truth is that it is the two ruling coalition parties, Congress and National Conference (NC), who are guilty of having abused secularism.
He said as president of one of the coalition partners, Soz owes an explanation that why the Congress maintained a studied silence while its partner NC violated the oath of Constitution as well as propriety of official position by instigating communal passions, appeasing separatist elements and dividing the people of State on religious lines by vociferously coming out in support of terrorists like Afzal Guru and Maqbool Bhat but not showing same enthusiasm to take up the case of Chemail Singh, an innocent farmer who was murdered in a Pakistani Jail after he had inadvertantly strayed into Pakistani territory.
Claiming that BJP is the only genuinely secular party in the country today, Dr. Jitendra Singh said that if secularism means shying away from paying homage to slain CRPF Jawans as the ruling coalition leadership was seen doing recently in Srinagar or if secularism means reluctance to say “Bharat Mata Ki Jai”, then the BJP is proud that it does not emulate such “secularism” which is practized by the NC and the Congress.
He said, it is a shame that even the Jammu based leaders from the ruling coalition prefer to speak in separatist jargan to please their Kashmir-centric masters and yet believe that people of Jammu are convinced about their secular claims.
Dr. Jitendra Singh reminded the ruling coalition leadership that to prove one’s secular credentials one does not have to do anti-national posturing or underplay one’s own religion of birth and this bottomline has been accepted even by the world’s most developed democracies like the US and UK
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