SRINAGAR: Home Minister Amit Shah would meet all 28 BJP legislators to formulate the party’s aggressive strategy ahead of the budget session of Jammu and Kashmir Assembly scheduled from March 3 in Jammu.
Sources in the BJP said that Shah would either be travelling to Jammu or summon all the 28 BJP legislators from J&K to New Delhi. The home minister conveyed this during his meeting with senior J&K BJP leader and Leader of Opposition in J&K Assembly Sunil Sharma in New Delhi.
“During his proposed meeting with the J&K BJP legislators, the Home Minister will discuss with them the strategy to be adopted during the Budget session of J&K Assembly from March 3,” he said.
It would be the first Budget session of J&K Assembly in over seven years and Chief Minister Omar Abdullah would be presenting the budget in the house.
Sources in BJP said since the budget session would be three weeks duration, the Home Minister may tell the party MLAs to follow aggressive approach and ensure that there was no violation of the Constitution during the session. The Budget session gains additional significance for the BJP because it is being held in Jammu, which is the stronghold of BJP.
The BJP won all its 29 Assembly seats from Jammu region and one of the party sitting MLA Devender Singh passed away in November last year. Sources said Shah will direct the party MLAs to forcefully raise the issues concerning Jammu and foil any attempt by Kashmir-based MLAs to raise Article 370 issue.
In the first Assembly session of J&K UT Assembly in November in Srinagar, the NC government passed a resolution calling for restoration of special status to Jammu and Kashmir.
Sources said the BJP high command was not happy with the party MLAs approach during the first session as they boycotted the final day’s proceedings of the first session allowing the NC and other members to raise Article 370 issue without any interference or intervention from any quarter.
Aggressive approach
Amit Shah may tell the party MLAs to follow aggressive approach and ensure that there was no violation of the Constitution. The session gains additional significance for the BJP because it is being held in Jammu.