BJP Using 'Bogus Chanakya-Niti': Jairam Ramesh Ahead of Jammu Kashmir Results

Congress general secretary in charge of communication, Jairam Ramesh, alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led BJP is playing desperate games to engineer a majority “facing imminent defeat”. The results of Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections will be announced on Tuesday along with the Haryana elections. Ramesh’s comments are coming after the exit polls have predicted a hung assembly in the Union Territory where the elections are being held after a bifurcation happened in 2018.

“Facing imminent defeat, the BJP is playing desperate games to engineer a majority and hoping for a hung assembly to aid them in their subterfuge,” alleged Ramesh.

In the newest Union Territory which borders Pakistan, the Congress is contesting the elections as part of the INDIA alliance that consists of National Conference, Panthers Party and CPI (M) apart from the grand-old party.

“They know that the people of Jammu and Kashmir have given a clear mandate to the INC-NC alliance. To undo this democratic process, they have resorted to the old ways of their self-proclaimed bogus ‘Chanakya-niti.’,” Ramesh added.

He also said the party has clear information and basis to say that malicious steps are being taken through a colourable and malafide exercise of power to negate the people’s verdict in favour of the INC NC alliance in Jammu and Kashmir. “We will do everything in our power to thwart such nefarious designs,” he added.

Apart from BJP and Congress-led INDIA alliance, Mehbooba Mufti’s PDP and many Jammu and Kashmir based political parties and independents are in the poll fray. Before the dissolution of the state, Mufti was ruling the state in an alliance with BJP. Now a Union Territory, Ladakh was also part of the state then.