This question comes to my mind following the reversal of the order to give 100 acres of land to the Amarnath Shrine board(SASB). While the idea was to give the land to house pilgrims on a temporary basis given the hostile weather and roads to Amarnath, some people “fighting/standing up” for Kashmir feel that it would change the demographics of Kashmir following which the order was revoked.
The point of my post is
1)Didn’t the demographics change when around 400,000 Kashmiri Pandits left the valley in the wake of militancy. Where are the Hindu rights then?What about Buddhists and Sikhs who lived in the valley before the wake of militancy in the fag end of 1980s
2 )Any party in India if it appeases to Muslim and Christian communities apparently is “secular” ( Congress, PDP, NCP, SP, DMK CPM,etc.) but if any party or group parades nationalism on it’s sleeve or says that it is pro Hindu is branded communal and every small mistake/misdeed is magnified and subject to maximum scrutiny and judgment by the media( for ex:the murder of Gandhi, any bandh call by Bal Thackrey or the Gujarat riots).
One of the worst part of the whole story is that more media scrutiny is given to bandh call by the BJP & VHP and it evokes a debate on CNN-IBN, but when the Commies had more successful “Bharat Bandhs” and the very regular strikes in their bastions of WB and Kerala, the media simply refuses to debate much into the Bandh’s.
Having said all this, the threats given by the BJP to choke supplies to the valley was very lame and pathetic. This is not expected of a National party and is not a way to govern or protest by any means.
