The Bharatiya Janata Party has decided to observe August 21 as ‘Kashmir bachao diwas’ (save Kashmir day). From August 9 to 14 it will focus attention on alleged wrong-doings of the Central Bureau of Investigation, with a special focus on Gujarat.
BJP general secretary Ananth Kumar on Friday said the party would hold meetings on Kashmir in numerous places. The BJP's view was that special status for Kashmir granted under Article 370 of the Constitution had led to “separatism.” The Congress, he said, was responsible for this state of affairs.
The action plans were drawn up at a meeting of the party's core group. On the CBI, the party decided it would hold “justice marches” from August 9 to 14 in every district, with workers going to Collectors' offices to submit memorandums, apparently against the “injustice” meted out by the CBI to the former Gujarat Home Minister, Amit Shah, and others in connection with the murders of Sheikh Sohrabuddin, his wife Kauser bi and Tulsiram Prajapati.
The party has also planned an agitation against allowing foodgrain to rot in Food Corporation of India warehouses. ‘Panchayats' of the poor, mainly BPL card holders, will be held in urban and rural areas where party workers will educate them on why food prices have sky-rocketed in the last one year and more.
