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| Modi, not separatists can make Kashmiris feel at home | | | HARI OM | 4/5/2014 11:14:53 PM |
| Campaigning for elections is in full swing across the nation. The new Government at the Centre would be in place by May 21. The BJP-led NDA and its Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi have been seeking a clear mandate from people on developmental plank invoking democratic, economic issues and issues pertaining to national security, foreign and military policies. As for all other parties, including the Congress, they have been striving to the hilt to convert the ongoing electoral exercise into a self-serving battle with fake secularism, communalism and divisive politics. Their one-point agenda is to frighten the minorities, especially the Muslims, pit social groups against each other and check Modi's democratic march towards New Delhi to free India from the clutches of the Congress, which was founded by the British imperialists with the help of some amenable western educated Indians to deflate the then ongoing freedom struggle in the country and help London consolidate its hold over India.
Actually, the non-NDA parties, which are bereft of any positive agenda for the nation, have unleashed a no-holds-barred hate campaign against Narendra Modi, who has been crisscrossing the nation for months now to educate the public opinion about the adverse impact of over 50-year
rule of the Congress on the country's polity, society, and economy. He has been urging the nation to ensure Congress's political demise on a permanent basis as it symbolises only evil. If the issueless non-NDA outfits and formations have unleashed a negative campaign against the BJP-led NDA in general and Narendra Modi in particular, the Kashmir-based parties both separatist and the so-called mainstream have started exploiting the ongoing democratic and electoral exercise to further muddy the Indian waters in Kashmir.
The ruling National Conference (NC),), the Awami Mutahida Mahaz (AMM), a conglomeration of parties like the Communist Party of India - Marxist (CPI-M), the SP and a couple of other one-MLA marginal outfits, the All-Party Hurriyat Conference - Mirwaiz (APHC-M), the APHC-Geelani, the Jammu & Kashmir liberation front (JKLF), the Jammu & Kashmir democratic Freedom Party (JKDFP) and others have all upped the ante against India and reiterated their respective stands on Kashmir.
During the past few days, the leadership of these parties have indicated their intention to arouse anti-India passions in the Valley by giving communal, anti-Indian Constitution and essentially pro-Pakistan orientation to their election campaign.
The ruling NC, which is under oath to defend the Constitution, has said that it would seek the people's mandate in Kashmir on such planks as greater autonomy, Army, Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) and Pakistan. Its additional general secretary and uncle of the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, Mustafa Kamal, has said the party ideologues are busy these days in preparing the party's election manifesto which will hold out a solemn commitment to the people of Kashmir that the NC, if gets mandate, would create a situation that forces New Delhi to grant semi-independence to the State, withdraws Army and AFSPA from Kashmir and accommodates the Pakistani view on J&K.
The other Kashmir-based party, which is constitutionally bound to play the role of a watchdog as a responsible Opposition, has said that it would enter the Parliament to persuade political parties to work out a "basic Kashmir policy" so that there is "forward movement on the Kashmir resolution".
"The manifesto will propose, discuss and debate the creation of a new Ministry for Affairs of Jammu & Kashmir. We will seek Parliamentary approval for upgrading the existing Department of Jammu & Kashmir Affairs which currently is a part of the Home Ministry," its leadership has been saying since March 21.
"The Parliamentary election for it is not about forging alliances to stay in power. Our role is to make the Parliament of India a forum for raising the J&K issue for debate and dialogue at the national level," he also said.
Like the NC, the AMM leaders including Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami of the CPI-M and Sheikh Abdul Rehman of the SP have not only been raising the Kashmir issue, but have also been denouncing the PDP leadership for its "soft" stand on Narendra Modi. "There was no forward movement, breakthrough or any serious attempt made by the UPA Government to reach out and address a genuine urge and aspiration (read greater autonomy and appreciation of the Pakistani line on J&K) for dignified peace and harmony...
The AMM is of the firm opinion that creating an illusion vis-à-vis a possible breakthrough on Kashmir issue, if Modi becomes the Prime Minister is bereft of any substance and logic.
The BJP represents an ideology which spells divisiveness and communal disharmony which will endanger the secular-democratic fabric," they have been telling their constituency in Kashmir.
The stand of the so-called grand old party of India, the Congress, has been no different. Like in other parts of the country, in J&K also, the Congress is singing the same old monotonous secularism versus communalism song to pander to regressive forces in the Valley, hoping that this type of campaign might help it repeat its 2004 and 2009 performance in Jammu province. The Congress is not contesting election in Kashmir as per its pre-poll alliance with the NC.
The NC, the Congress and the AMM are considered democratic and secular parties. But, put in any amount of effort to find if any leader belonging to any of these outfits has ever talked about democratic and economic challenges facing the general public or ever uttered even a single word against separatists and extremists, you will come out of the exercise minus everything. On the contrary, one would find each one of these so-called mainstream outfits and the separatist
organisations like the APHC-M, the APHC-G, the JKLF and the JKDFP in the same bed.
The only difference between the 'mainstream' and separatist outfits is that while the former is taking the general election as an invaluable opportunity to further complicate things for India in Kashmir by raking up divisive and emotive issues, the latter is terming the ongoing election process as a "big drama" enacted by New Delhi to hoodwink the world and they have urged the gullible Kashmiri Muslims to stay away from the ongoing electoral exercise. So much so, the separatists are using the religious places to achieve their sinister anti-India agenda.
Shouldn't the Election Commission of India intervene before it is too late? It has to intervene and ensure that the registered political parties do not go beyond the constitutional confines. Courtesy:
www.niticentral.com
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