By
Nitya Chakraborty
Ten days after the Pulwama attack by
the suicide bomber leading to the death of more than forty CRPF personnel,
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan issued a statement on Sunday urging the
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to give peace a chance assuring that he
would act immediately if India gives actionable intelligence on the attack.
Imran earlier made such an offer but this time, his appeal was in response to
the speech made by Narendra Modi on Saturday challenging him to stand true to
his words and act against the terror outfits.
PM in his speech at an election rally
mentioned of his phone conversation last year in which Imran said “I am the son
of a Pathan. I speak true and I do true” and Modi said’ the time has come for
him to stand true to his words. I will see whether he stands true to his words
or not”. Since Imran has made the offer again, perhaps it will be wiser for the
Indian PM now to give the Pakistan PM the proof of Pak involvement in the
latest Pulwama tragedy. This gesture is important because if the Indian
government takes the earlier position that already it is known tat Jaish e
Mohammed outfit led by Masood Azhar is behind this and he is based in Pakistan,
the Imran government will get the excuse to wage the propaganda in the United
Nations and the Security Council members that despite his request, India have
not submitted the proof and unnecessarily stepping up war frenzy against
Pakistan. Imran should not be allowed to wriggle out through any excuse and
Indian officials have to send the same evidence to the big powers also so that
full Pakistani involvement is established and the big powers rally for putting
big pressure on Pakistan for taking immediate action against the terror
outfits.
India have achieved some diplomatic
victory through the passing of the Security Council resolution in which the
mention of Jaish outfit was made. China had to finally agree and this is a very
positive development for Indian diplomatic efforts against Pakistan. This has
to be stepped up by taking more initiatives which lead to the banning of the
terror outfits in Pakistan. Indian Government have to organize its moves right
now to ensure that the funds flow to the Pak terror outfits are stopped. Saudi
Arabia funnels funds to some Pak terror outfits. This has to be totally
stopped. India, so far have not taken any steps to ensure this. After the
Security Council resolution victory, all efforts have to be given on isolating
Pakistan and compelling Imran to take serious action against the Pak based anti
India operators. Imran has been building a brand image of Naya Pakistan and
this is the right time to extract maximum concessions from him without
resorting to a war frenzy on the eve of Lok Sabha elections for facilitating
political mileage to the Prime Minister’s party BJP.
Any sensible military expert knows
that the talk of retaliatory military action against Pakistan for Pulwama
attack, has dangerous consequences and it will not be limited to India and
Pakistan alone, it will have a regional character and there is no guarantee of
success. Modi is intelligent enough to understand this, but as a political
leader and the sole vote catcher of the BJP, he has got an opportunity to give
a big push to nationalist feelings and make full use of this mood to win the
Lok Sabha elections in May this year. In all his meetings, he is making the
point that only a stable government led by him will be able to teach lessons to
Pakistan and BJP should be voted back to power as against a weak coalition led
by the Congress and the regional parties. This will be the refrain of the
coming election speeches in the next two and half months while the military
preparations will be stepped up around India-Pak border and the countrymen will
be asked to be ready for giving a tough lesson to the Pakistanis by Narendra
Modi. BJP president Amit Shah has been saying even that those who are not
behind Modi in his policy on Pakistan, are against the nation. In this
atmosphere, very few are daring to ask questions how such a massive action with
explosives was done by a lone suicide bomber in the most protected
highway? Why no action will not be taken
against the high ups responsible for the security lapses?
India is going through a crisis
period. The Kashmiri muslims are being increasingly delinked from the national
mainstream by the policies of the centre. The situation, instead of improving,
is going from bad to worse. The BJP leadership, in consultations with the Sangh
Parivar, has given all the focus on the post Pulwama situation and the
activists want to make this core theme for their Lok Sabha campaign. This will
lead to further polarization of the Indian voters on communal lines and the BJP
think tank have calculated that this strategy will help the saffrons to get a
good chunk of the centrist Hindu voters who otherwise, would not have voted for
the BJP candidates. The Sangh Parivar activists will project Narendra Modi as
the protector of Hindu India who is the best bet to fight the Pakistani demon.
Some Sangh Parivar analysts give the analogy of 1984 Lok Sabha elections, when
the Congress secured unexpected success in the wake of Indira Gandhi’s
assassination as the nationalist feelings in favour of Congress swept a major
supporting base of the BJP to the Congress
side and reduced BJP to only two seats in the new Lok Sabha.
The opposition parties and the people
believing in the safe functioning of the parliamentary democracy of the country
have to assert vigorously to oppose the nefarious game of the Sangh Parivar to
which the Indian Prime Minister is a party. The Government has every right to
take hard actions against Pakistan but this India-Pak confrontation issue
should not be allowed to be utilized by the ruling political party to serve
their narrow party interests. The country’s interests are above the Party,
Prime Minister Narendra Modi should keep it in mind. (IPA Service)
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