The Bharatiya Janata Party would organise an eight-day long nation-wide Satyagraha from June 7 to protest the spurt in terrorist violence in Jammu and Kashmir and "expose the United Progressive Alliance government's failure" to check the growing menace.
Under the "Save Doda - Save Nation" campaign, the party activists from across the country would proceed to Jammu in batches, take part in Satyagraha and court arrest to highlight the "dangers" of the ongoing "ethnic cleansing and targeted killings of innocent Hindus" by Pakistan-sponsored militant outfits, senior BJP leader M Venkaiah Naidu told reporters in Hyderabad on Sunday.
He said the campaign was aimed at educating the people about the grim situation in the border state, especially in Doda region, where Hindus were reportedly being massacred in a systematic and planned manner as part of conspiracy by the Pakistani Intelligence agency ISI.
The batches of party functionaries from various states, led by central BJP leaders, would converge in Jammu region and take part in the Satyagraha along with the local cadre, Naidu, who is to lead the batch from Rajasthan and Kerala on the opening day of the campaign on June 7, said.
Several central leaders including Murli Manohar Joshi, Vinay Katiyar, Sahib Singh Verma, Sushma Swaraj, V K Malhotra, Shanta Kumar, Thawarchand Gehlot and Anant Kumar would lead the Satyagrahis from various states.
Alleging that there was a conspiracy to flush out Hindus from Doda and other districts in Jammu and Kashmir as reflected by the recent massacre of 35 Hindus, the BJP leader demanded an immediate halt to the "ethnic cleansing," deployment of more military and security forces and strengthening the village defence committees by providing
modern weapons and communication equipment.
The spurt in violence in the Kashmir valley was because of lack of coherent policy and commitment by the state and central governments, Naidu said.
Refering to the proposals on autonomy and self-rule in Jammu and Kashmir, he said, "We have been warning that any failure on the part of the government to check the fast-growing menace of terrorism will prove counter-productive
and cause irreparable damage to the country's paramount national interests in the state."
Dubbing as "outrageous" the J&K Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad's reported statement on "shared sovereignty with Pakistan", the BJP leader said such an approach had emboldened the terrorists and sent wrong signals to the people.
"The UPA government has no political will and courage to avert the impending danger of migration of Hindus from Jammu and Kashmir," Naidu said.
Later, addressing the state executive of BJP Yuva Morcha, Naidu asked partymen to reach out to the people and explain to them about the threats to national security and unity, the growing instances of religious conversions and the anti-people policies of the Congress government in the state and UPA at the Centre.
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