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Tara Shankar Sahay in New Delhi
The political one-upmanship in Jammu & Kashmir between the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress resumed on Friday, with the BJP asking the latter whether it was eager to capture power in the state "to carry forward the agenda of terrorism caused by its divisive policies".
Posing questions to the Congress, BJP general secretary Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi asked the Congress whether it wanted to capture power "to perpetrate the policies of the Nehru family, which were responsible for about 54 per cent of Kashmir being ceded away (sic) from India", and "accomplish its incomplete agenda" of ceding the remaining 46 per cent.
He also asked whether the assembly election in the state, which is getting global accolades, does not suit the Congress, or whether the party continues to fear the exposure of its past "bunglings".
He also asked the party whether it was encouraging the separatists by inviting them for unconditional talks and accepting their anti-national demands.
He said the Congress did not have the vision to distinguish between the policies of Jawaharlal Nehru and Dr Shyama Prasad Mookerjee, the late Jan Sangh founder. It was therefore incapable of appreciating the polices of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance government.
"How long will the Congress party continue to try and fulfil its political design on the basis of illusionary mentality," Naqvi asked.
The BJP general secretary was grilled by reporters, who took exception to his contention that the Congress was hobnobbing with Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence and taking directions from it to derive political mileage by sacrificing national interests.
Asked to clarify, Naqvi said he had only stated that the entire Indian political establishment should speak in unison on Jammu & Kashmir, else separatist and anti-national forces would take advantage of the situation.
He also maintained that while the BJP was not in favour of trifurcation of Jammu & Kashmir, it did not regard this demand as anti-national. "The issue of trifurcation is within India," he said.
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