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| No place for 'pluralism' in Kashmir | | PDP-BJP alliance fails | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, June 16: The brutal murder of Rising Kashmir Editor Shujaat Bukhari in Srinagar and liquidation of army man Aurangzeb in Shopian on the eve of Eid and during the "holy month of Ramzan" on June 14 once again established that Kashmir has changed and changed to the maximum extent and that the situation has become almost irretrievable.
These two murders, coupled with several other similar murders also established beyond any shadow of doubt that the current phase of separatism will destroy whatever is still left of "Kashmiri identity" and make the Kashmir Valley fully ripe for non-secular rule and non-secular laws. This drive, according to keen Kashmir-watchers, "is obviously masterminded by the world's first ISIS, the Islamic State of Pakistan, and the idea will be to make Kashmiris militantly Islamist, where no quarter will be given to pluralism and unity with the rest of India".
At this point in time, one can only expect Kashmir-based leaders like Omar Abdullah and others to be fearful for their lives and more or less speak soft separatism. This will also be the case with Mehbooba Mufti and the PDP. It will surely start pouting the language of what the Kashmir-watchers describe, "more overt separatism purely from the point of view of self-preservation. The story of Kashmir-based Congress leaders like GA Mir would be no different.
It is clear what the Narendra Modi Government at the Centre needs to do. The time to end the coalition in Jammu and Kashmir was on Thursday, but it didn't do that. It missed the opportunity. But the trouble-shooters in New Delhi says "today the Modi Government has no option but to do so because the PDP itself will be a petrified party, scared of its own shadow". "The BJP will be doing it a favour by breaking the coalition, putting its leaders under some kind of official protection (and hence give them the halo of arrested martyrs), and end the ceasefire in the Valley," opine sophisticated opinion leaders and Kashmir-watchers.
The upshot of the whole argument of these think-tanks is: "Ramzan has brought no change in the hearts of the jihadis. Why are we wasting our energies in trying to pretend the jihadis are reasonable men who might love an olive branch from the Indian state? The olive tree has been burnt root and branch in the Valley".
In the meantime, CM Mehbooba Mufti's own friends like Barkha Dutt have openly demanded imposition of Governor's rule in Jammu & Kashmir. "The Government of India's Kashmir policy needs a reboot. And a start would be to restore the write of the state and eliminate the inchoate paradoxes of the BJP and PDP partnership with Governor's rule," they have said. |
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