Friday, November 11, 2011

Saffron party's youth wing embarks on yatra to Srinagar

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For the first time in its history, the BJP has placed the reins of a very sensitive and important issue–the Kashmir issue in this case – in the hands of the party's youth wing, Bhartiya Janta Yuva Morcha (BJYM).

As part of this move, a yatra was flagged off on January 12 from Kolkata, the birthplace of the party's founder Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee. The Kashmir issue has been on top of BJP's agenda for decades. But in the past, sensitive issues such as Kashmir, Ram temple and Uniform Civil Code were taken up and handled only by the top brass of the saffron political party.

The yatra will pass through several states including Jharkhand, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh before culminating at Sri Nagar's Lal Chowk on January 26, where the BJP leaders plan to unfurl the national flag.

This is for the first time in the history of BJYM that a programme of this magnitude has been done on a core ideological issue. There will be about 150 public meetings on way to Srinagar during 16 days.

The yatra aims to make people, and especially youngsters, “aware of the separatist movement” in the state. There is a political undertone to this yatra too. The party wants to organise the youth against the Congress and counter Rahul Gandhi's drive to bring more and more fresh blood into the party fold.

The BJP has always protested agaisnt the implementation of Article 370 of the Constitution in Kashmir, under which Kashmir is allowed to have a separate constitution and flag. People from outside the state cannot purchase land in the state, apply for government jobs here or enjoy adult suffrage.

Anurag Thakur, president of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha, says, “The Kashmir issue is historical blunder by the Congress that the country is still grappling with. The root cause is the implementation of article 370. The day it is withdrawn, this unnatural line of division will be wiped out. The solution to Kashmir issue should be found out under constitutional ambit and not religious.” Talking to TSI, national general secretary of BJYM, Manoranjan Mishra says, “This is the biggest campaign in the history of the yuva morcha. We also plan to directly contact more than one crore youths through internet.”

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