BJP misleading House: Hari Om

Tribune News Service

Jammu, April 27

Jammu for India (JFI) convener Hari Om today accused the BJP of misleading the Lok Sabha and not narrating facts about the NIT-Srinagar row in the House.

He appealed to non-BJP Lok Sabha members to bring a privilege motion against the Minister of State (MoS) for Home for being economical with truth and wilfully misleading Parliament.

Prof Hari Om asserted that bringing a privilege motion against the MoS for Home was imperative to ensure that justice was dispensed to non-local students.

He said the students were punished, abused and threatened and they quit Srinagar en masse on April 11 and 12 to save their lives and dignity, asserted the JFI convener in a statement.

“It is disgusting that the so-called ultra-nationalist BJP sided with anti-nationals to appease Kashmiri separatists and communalists instead of sharing the agony and feeling the pain of oppressed and suppressed non-local students,” he lamented.

“They only waved the Tricolour and chanted the slogan ‘Bharat Mata ki jai’ braving all odds, including threat to life, to counter seditionists at an institute run and controlled by the Government of India,” he stated.

He added that by making “common cause” with anti-nationals, the BJP had exposed itself and its “fake” nationalistic credentials.

It was a matter of shame for the BJP and Sangh Parivar outfits which had charged non-local students with “playing politics” in Kashmir by hoisting the national flag and chanting ‘Bharat Mata ki jai’, he further said.

“The MoS on Tuesday sought to create an impression that CRPF personnel would stay put at the NIT in Srinagar to ensure safety and security of non-local students,” he said.

“The MoS was trying to show that the magistrate looking into the circumstances under which the police used brutalforce against non-local students was yet to submit his report,” he said, claiming that the statement was misleading and incomplete.