February 15
The Bhartiya Janta party, as per stats, has failed to contain home grown Militancy in Jammu Kashmir since it rose to power in 2014.
Data reveals that the Congress led UPA Government saw as many as 154 local youth taking up arms to join Militant groups, however the number has drastically rose to 524 during the Modi Led NDA Government.
In 2014, the number of Locals joining Militancy was 53, in 2015, it reached 66 before touching the highest mark of 88 in 2016, in 2017, the number rose further to 126 and in 2018, 191 Local youth joined Militancy.
Following the killing of popular commander, Burhan Wani, Militancy rose heights, however stats reveal that since the rise of BJP into power, Locals have been joining Militancy at a fast pace.
Following Burhan Wani’s killing in July 2016, several top commanders of Militant outsifts Hizb, Lashkar and Jaish were killed as part of the much publicised ‘Operation All-Out’, an anti-militancy operation that was launched in mid- 2017.
Those killed include Sabzar Bhat, Saddam Padder, Sameer Bhat alias ‘Tiger’, Bashir Lashkar, Junaid Matto, Yasin Itoo, Abu Dujana, Abu Ismael and a few others, however these killings of local armed Militants has not deterred youth from joining militancy.
In 2018, three highly educated youths one each from north Kashmir’s Kupwara district and summer capital Srinagar joined militancy, Mannan Bashir Wani, a former research scholar at the AMU, Waseem Ahmed Rather, another Ph.D scholar from Kulgam, ZUbair Ahmed Wani and Sabzar Ahmed Sofi, M.Phil Scholars from South Kashmir.
Many engineering students, Security men have picked up arms since BJP came into power, which include prominent names as Eisa Fazili, Zahoor Thokar, Idrees Mir and others. Also, post the rise of BJP into power, local support has grown for militancy, in 2015, for the first time, Locals rushed to an encounter site in form of a procession to help Militants trapped in an encounter escape, one protester was shot dead in Khudwani area of Kulgam.
The Dangerous trends have started surfacing on the militancy front in Jammu Kashmir with a youth ramming a vehicle into a CRPF convoy killing more than 45 CRPF troopers.