Is JDU being funded from within Pakistan? Tags: JD(U), Janata Dal (United), pakistan, Bihar Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh, Bihar Rural Affairs and Panchayati Raj Minister Bhim Singh By Saswat Panigrahi on August 15, 2013 Is JDU being funded from within Pakistan? On the sidelines of JDU national executive meeting in April, held in New Delhi, then national secretary of the party Shivraj Singh hurled a political bomb shell. “The JDU is being funded from within hostile nations,” Singh had alleged. Shivraj was leveling the allegations months after Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar visited Pakistan. Now fast forward to August, when the whole country is mourning the unprovoked killing of five Indian soldiers by the Pakistani Army in Poonch sector. Four of the five soldiers killed in the LoC attacks hail from Bihar. When the mortal remains of the martyr soldiers arrived at Patna Airport, not a single Minister from Nitish Kumar’s Cabinet turned up. Moreover, the JDU chose to give the slain jawans’ last rites a miss. This followed repeated insults to martyrs by JDU leaders. Mocking at the martyrs’ supreme sacrifice, senior JDU leader and Bihar Rural Affairs and Panchayati Raj Minister Bhim Singh said, “People join forces only to die.” As if that was not enough, another senior Minister in Nitish Kumar’s Cabinet gave a virtual clean chit to Pakistan over LoC killings. “I don’t believe Pakistan is responsible for the killing of the five Indian soldiers along the LoC,” senior JDU leader and Bihar Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh said. “Pakistan is our younger brother and a good neighbour,” he went on to add. These JDU leaders should know a soldier represents the nation in the battlefield. No one’s presence is as direct as a soldier. Every drop of soldiers’ blood is sacred to us. The death of a soldier is a huge loss to the nation, a loss which should make us all die a little. Instead of showing solidarity with the soldiers and their grieving families, the JDU leaders choose to sing a tune favourable to Pakistan and despite this, they continue in the Nitish Kumar’s Cabinet. Though the JDU is on record maintaining that the Ministers’ statements were “against the policy, ethics and norms of the party”, many say they are simply endorsing the party’s official position on LoC killings. This kind of absolute anti-national expression should have no place in this country. Desperate vote-bank politics of JDU is the reason behind all the misplaced sympathy with an enemy nation. Is Nitish Kumar’s JDU playing the dangerous game of catering to Pakistani interests to woo Muslims in Bihar? Or is JDU being funded from within Pakistan to speak its language?
Posted on: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 05:17:49 +0000
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