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| BSP again reiterates its demand for trifurcation | | Against separate status | | Rustam
JAMMU, June 8: In the last week of May, a number of political groups active in Jammu province demanded reorganization/trifurcation of the state into Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh States, saying three-way split of the state was the only alternative left to achieve freedom from the discriminatory and separatist Kashmiri leadership and restrict the area of contention and strife to the small Valley. Jammu State Morcha (JSM) of Ashwini Sharma (MLA), the Jammu State Morcha of Virender Gupta and the Shiv Sena were some of the political groups which put forth the demand seeking trifurcation of the state and the demand was made soon after Chief Minister Omar Abdullah declared that Jammu & Kashmir will not remain part of India in case Article 370 was abrogated. Omar Abdullah made this controversial and provocative statement on May 27 and repeated it the very next day. It was this statement that provoked the leadership of the JSM and other political groups, including Shiv Sena, an ally of the BJP, to the extent that they demanded division of the state clearly suggesting that the people of Jammu and Ladakh didn't want any kind of truck with the Kashmiri leadership. Trifurcation of the state is the old demand of these political groups. It is a different story that none of them made any concerted attempt to achieve its goal despite the fact that that a very vast majority of people in Jammu and Ladakh want separation from Kashmir saying the Kashmiri leadership posed, and continues to pose, a live challenge to their very identity.
Almost at the same time, the Panun Kashmir, a premier organization of the internally-displaced Kashmir Hindus, also organized a seminar on the political situation arising out in the country in the wake of the BJP's massive victory and formation of the Nrendra Modi's government at the centre on May 26. The seminar, which was an impressive affair, suggested many things. It suggested that the community was very pleased with the collapse of the Congress-led UPA Government and emergence of a new regime. It also suggested that the Kashmiri refugees had full faith in the new government. But more than that, it also indicated the resolve of the displaced community to work in right earnest for the formation of separate homeland in the Valley. In fact, the organizers of the seminar, held at Jammu Club, Jammu, moved a resolution that demanded four-way split of the state. They demanded statehood for Jammu, Union territory status for Ladakh and bifurcation of Kashmir so that they could get their own homeland invested with the UT status. The resolution was adopted unanimously and it said nothing doing with the Kashmiri leadership whose demands ranged from autonomy to self-rule to Pakistan to independence. Four-way split of the state was the only lasting solution to the issues facing different regions and Kashmiri Hindus as well as the problem confronting the nation in Kashmir was the message from Jammu Club. And on June 6, the BSP upped the ante and demanded reorganization of the state. Set up two separate states of Jammu and Kashmir and give UT status to Ladakh said BSP national general secretary and in-charge Jammu & Kashmir Narinder Kashayap in Jammu. The intention of Jammu & Kashmir Government is not good. Had it been good, it would have focused on issues of development and governance and made the state a model state. The people of Jammu and Kashmir do not have even basic facilities. The youth is unemployed. No developmental activities are visible in the state. The ruling elite is simply diverting the people's attention away from the real issues by raking up emotive and controversial issues," he, among other things, said, and added that reorganization of the state is a must. Remember, the BSP had last year moved a resolution in the Rajya Sabha demanding reorganization - a development that went unnoticed for reasons best known to the otherwise very alert media. It is also important to note that Kashayap had visited Jammu immediately after the BSP moved the resolution on reorganization and in a press conference declared that the BSP had chalked out a programme calculated to ensure reorganization of the state. He and others in the party had also condemned Article 370 saying it was responsible for the miserable plight of the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Other Backward Classes and refugees from West Pakistan. What all these political groups have said and demanded is self-explanatory. It's time for the Kashmiri leadership to take cognizance of the developing situation in the state and behave accordingly. Not to do so or to continue to pursue the same old line would be only to hasten the process of the state's disintegration -process which was set-in-motion the day the Union Government took decision to set up autonomous hill development councils at Leh and Kargil in Ladakh region. |
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