<span style='color:red'>A Pseudo-Secular with a Hindu-Sounding Name Writes:</span>
Jammu Is Not Burning
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The BJP, in any event, has a much greater stake than any other party, in not letting the kind of venom spouted by the spokespersons of the Samiti while appearing on national television news channels sticking to it as well. The BJP must realise that it is sure to antagonise all the right-thinking people by the readiness and the aggressive tone with which its votaries have been justifying the agitation.
The revoltingly rabid rantings by the Samiti members, to the extent of demanding that the Muslims of the Valley better migrate to Pakistan and stay there, has all the potential, if allowed to continue unchecked, of putting the Amarnath yatris at grave risk, if not setting India ablaze in a communal conflagration. The yatris need to be urgently saved from their friends.
<span style='color:red'>Compared to the incendiary declamations by the so-called protagonists of Amarnath yatris, the representatives of the Muslim outfits of J&K, whether main or fringe, have shown commendable moderation</span>, recalling how for more than a 100 years Kashmiris have treated the yatris with amity and respect, and given them protection and all the needed facilities, and how even now they are willing to extend the same hospitality.
<span style='color:red'>The most immediate issue to be taken up with the Samiti and those of their ilk is the acute hardship caused to the people of the valley by the scarcity of essential commodities, items of daily consumption, and even milk powder for babies and life-saving medicines caused by the so-called 'economic blockade'. If there had been any such call for a blockade, it is nothing short of economic terrorism deserving of the most stringent steps against the perpetrators.</span>
The Samiti people, however, vociferously deny there being any such blockade or their having given a call for it, but blockade or not, trucks carrying goods are held up in their hundreds on the only highway from the valley to the outside world. The visuals are there for all to see, and there is no reason why television news channels and media reports should indulge in misrepresentation.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Rightly or wrongly, General Sinha's obvious enthusiasm in catering to the well-being of the Amarnath yatris<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><span style='color:red'>It is puzzling that the Congress-led UPA government should have forgotten the shining examples set by Mahatma Gandhi who never hesitated to meet a problem head on whether it was Noakhali, or Kolkata or Delhi</span> <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Jammu Is Not Burning
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The BJP, in any event, has a much greater stake than any other party, in not letting the kind of venom spouted by the spokespersons of the Samiti while appearing on national television news channels sticking to it as well. The BJP must realise that it is sure to antagonise all the right-thinking people by the readiness and the aggressive tone with which its votaries have been justifying the agitation.
The revoltingly rabid rantings by the Samiti members, to the extent of demanding that the Muslims of the Valley better migrate to Pakistan and stay there, has all the potential, if allowed to continue unchecked, of putting the Amarnath yatris at grave risk, if not setting India ablaze in a communal conflagration. The yatris need to be urgently saved from their friends.
<span style='color:red'>Compared to the incendiary declamations by the so-called protagonists of Amarnath yatris, the representatives of the Muslim outfits of J&K, whether main or fringe, have shown commendable moderation</span>, recalling how for more than a 100 years Kashmiris have treated the yatris with amity and respect, and given them protection and all the needed facilities, and how even now they are willing to extend the same hospitality.
<span style='color:red'>The most immediate issue to be taken up with the Samiti and those of their ilk is the acute hardship caused to the people of the valley by the scarcity of essential commodities, items of daily consumption, and even milk powder for babies and life-saving medicines caused by the so-called 'economic blockade'. If there had been any such call for a blockade, it is nothing short of economic terrorism deserving of the most stringent steps against the perpetrators.</span>
The Samiti people, however, vociferously deny there being any such blockade or their having given a call for it, but blockade or not, trucks carrying goods are held up in their hundreds on the only highway from the valley to the outside world. The visuals are there for all to see, and there is no reason why television news channels and media reports should indulge in misrepresentation.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Rightly or wrongly, General Sinha's obvious enthusiasm in catering to the well-being of the Amarnath yatris<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><span style='color:red'>It is puzzling that the Congress-led UPA government should have forgotten the shining examples set by Mahatma Gandhi who never hesitated to meet a problem head on whether it was Noakhali, or Kolkata or Delhi</span> <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->