FRIDAY, MAY 31, 2019 DAILY EXCELSIOR, JAMMU daily Jamphel Sheyan the past. People voted him cut- ting across differences of reli- Excelsior he exceptional case of Established 1965 gion and region with a hope that victory in Ladakh Par- BJP's victory in Ladakh he is the harbinger of much Founder Editor S.D. Rohmetra Tliamentary Election. awaited and required change. Councillor in LAHDC-Leh to lenges anti-incumbency that leader of BJPin the recent times undeniable truth. On the basis Yes, you heard it right: Who All the rhetoric of "RSS Ka won the 17th Parliamentary the Member of Parliament from BJP ingenuously engineered in Ladakh has changed the elit- of such variables, it will be Ladakh. This overnight rise of into the burgeoning class differ- ist BJPinto messiah of poor and wrong to colour whole Ladakh Baccha" "Sanghi" and "Hindu Election in Ladakh? It may agent in Ladakh" turned on deaf sounds silly but this silly ques- a politician in a short span of 5 ences in the traditional caste downtrodden overnight. Time in the colour of Hindutva. Elec- Super Speciality years is the talk of town in based society of Ladakh. The will reveal how true and hollow toral victory of Jamyang Tser- ear and people voted him. There tions carry some truth that can would have been many techni- challenge the façade of victory Ladakh. In this entire episode, genesis of this class based dif- is this image of "Messiah of ing Namgyal is the victory of it is interesting to see how BJP ferences lies in the monopoly of poor"? Despite all these polit- suppressed and marginalized cal reasons for his victory but assumed by BJP in Ladakh. If this article is more interested to Hospital in hiccups one pushes his eyes a little hard- is presenting this success of an elite people in the overall polit- ical aberration on the part of people of Ladakh who want gauge the qualitative issues that ith passage of time, generally one expects er and tries to read the present individual as the success of BJP ical and cultural life of Ladakh. BJP, this slogan gained curren- positive changes not Hindutva party in Ladakh. No doubt, Today, Congress signifies a cy in the political scenario of majoritarian politics. Many counted in the recent election. improvement in institutions and establish- political discourse in Ladakh, it The only alternative for technically BJP swept the elec- party of rich and elite whereas Ladakh like never before, and it educated people apprehension ments , records of performance are improved reflects a discourse in play that opposition is to bring a new out- W is neither BJP centric nor con- tion but ground realities suggest BJP means party of poor and bombarded rich against the against trafficking of the votes look and vision that can stop the upon and new targets and goals are set to be that it is common people who downtrodden in Ladakh. This poor in the last parliamentary of common people of Ladakh gress centric. It is the philoso- escalating influence of achieved. Expansion and widening of operational won, perhaps. It may sound binary is an offshoot of the rise election. Today, Jamyang is into dissemination of saf- phy of socialism that has sim- Jamyang Tsering Namgyal and areas are made the hallmark of performance , excel- mered in the consciousness of absurd but truth is always bit- of Jamyang Tsering Namgyal as looked upon as the champion of fronized politics in Ladakh ter. BJPhas been in the news for the CEC in LAHDC-Leh BJP. No doubt, Congress and lence and specialities. That all is what, under normal people in the highest district of poor and downtrodden and he is through the Jamyang Tsering other regional parties have due circumstances, happens and should happen with all India -Ladakh. In the recent hate politics, mob lynching, smashing the elite presence in reckoned as the "Pride" and Namgyal. religious intolerance, Love- Ladakh in general and BJP in share in the development of institutions having bearing on the humankind in one parliamentary election- BJP "Lion of Ladakh". In this whole The future roadmap for Mr. Ladakh but their defeat speaks Jihad, suppression of dissent, particular. The politics of form or the other. When these basic parameters are exploited this new born con- environment the role of Nation- MP would be to negotiate his volumes of their failure too. meddling with highest institu- Ladakh has been elitist from the sciousness in their favour al and State BJPparty cannot be policy of change between Until then, it is time for Mr. MP tried to be scanned and searched in Jammu's Super tion of India like CBI, Supreme very beginning. In the begin- through the image and rhetoric denied but the faith and love development and Hindutva ide- to work on his promises and Speciality Hospital, one only gets disappointed and skills of Jamyang Tsering Nam- Court, CAG and RBI and many ning of democracy, religious showered by the people of ology in the tight atmosphere of of its failed policies. These vari- prove all the allegations of dejected. This medical institution was hyped to the gyal who swept the Ladakh gurus occupied parliamentary Ladakh surpasses the role apprehension that has ables did not carry much weight oppositions wrong by main- extent of being a replica of PGI Chandigarh and that constituency with a margin of and assembly seats uncontest- played by any agency in the enveloped Ladakh after his vic- in local politics in Ladakh. Con- taining centuries old cultural of AIIMS New Delhi and that the desirous patients with around 11000 votes. Jamyang ed, and hereafter it was suc- election. It would be a gross tory. The immeasurable love for gress and other opposition in and communal harmony of Tsering Namgyal, the poster ceeded by people from higher mistake to credit BJP and Jamyang Tsering Namgyal ailments otherwise treated at such premier medical Ladakh used these facts to win Ladakh under the regime of institutes had not to undergo hassles of travelling that boy of Ladakhi political sphere caste both in Leh and Kargil dis- Jamyang Tsering Namgyal for springs for the image of a com- BJP. Let's see how Mr. MP is the only leader in Ladakh or their chances but it all turned tricts of Ladakh. Every nation- mon Ladakhi people and his far as this hospital was expected to be having such into dust for them. The ineffec- the victory of their ideology in negotiates the uphill task perhaps in entire Jammu and al or regional party is headed by Ladakh. There has been pres- oratory skills that people recog- between Hindutva and devel- facilities and specialised treatment here in Jammu. Kashmir to scale such momen- tiveness of such national issues a political leader in Ladakh of nise in his personality. This love in Ladakh parliamentary elec- ence of Hindutva ideology in opment or acquiesce into Hin- Unfortunately, the earlier hype and the importance tous height in politics within a higher caste in Ladakh and BJP is the voice of a common tion points toward agendas and Ladakh from a long time and dutva politics in his maiden attached with this hospital and the tag of "speciality" short period of nearly 5 years. is not exceptional. Amusingly, Ladakhi asking for develop- challenges that govern its local the functioning office of Rash- inning in the parliament of accorded in its establishment was seen gone and In the last 5 years, he succeed- the rise of Jamyang Namgyal as traya Swayam Sevak (RSS) and ment and harmony uniformly India. ed from a common man to a politics. One of these chal- unlike selective development in evaporated after a short period of its coming up. the most loved and powerful few schools run by RSS is an [email protected] Wherefrom shall its woes be started to be counted and listed is not that important as it is to ruefully note, as to how the Government and the Medical Education Department gradually started to ignore and dilute its Reduce menace of tobacco consumption importance even to the extent of denying it the reason- able budgetary allocations. 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