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| Empowerment of Jammu a national requirement | | Fighting out secessionism in Kashmir | | Rustam
JAMMU, Oct 10 : Kashmir is standing on India's nerves since October 1947, when the state acceded to India in terms of the constitutional law on the subject. This, despite the fact that it is the most pampered region in the entire country. Since 1947, the Kashmiri leadership has revolted against New Delhi innumerable times with a view to further driving Kashmir away from the country's mainstream politics and establish there a Pakistan-type dispensation. It has always criticized the Indian laws and Indian institutions, saying the extension of these laws and institutions has eroded the so-called Kashmir's distinct identity and caused alienation. Before 1947 and after March 1846, when Jammu & Kashmir State came into being under the Treaty of Amritsar, the Kashmiri leadership used to behave in the manner it has been behaving after 1947. Its demand was separation of Kashmir from the alien and oppressive Jammu. They used to say that Dogras had purchased the life, honour and dignity of Kashmiri Muslims for Rs 75 lakh from the British and we could not keep any kind of truck with them. Between 1846 and 1947, the Dogra administration had to act against the communal leadership of the Valley several times to bring the situation under control and maintain the unity and integrity of the state, which was nothing but a byproduct of an accident of history. Accident of history because had the Lahore Durbar not fell before the canny British, there would not have been any Treaty of Lahore between the victorious British and defeated Lahore Durbar and had there been no Treaty of Lahore, there would have been no Treaty of Amritsar between the British and the Dogra ruler Maharaja Gulab Singh under which Kashmir became part of the Dogra Kingdom. But that is history. The fact is that before 1947, the Kashmiri leadership demanded Azadi from the Dogras and after 1947 it has been demanding Azadi from New Delhi. The only difference is that it not only wants Kashmir to go out of India, but also wants to take away from New Delhi Jammu province and Ladakh region knowing it full well that the people of these two regions, like sections of Kashmiri society, particularly Kashmiri Hindus, are religiously committed to India and despite the fact that there have been loud clamours in both the regions as well as the Kashmiri Hindu refugee camps in favour of the state's division into four political units: Jammu, Ladakh, Panun Kashmir and Kashmir.
The Kashmiri leadership, which enjoyed full support of the Congress and similar other fake secular outfits at the national level and sections of perverted opinion-makers, would have succeeded in their evil game plan, had the people of Jammu province and Ladakh region plus the Indian Army not defeated such ulterior moves. The people of Jammu province and Ladakh region not once but umpteen times came on to the roads on their own to fight out the secessionist forces in the Valley and defend the national cause in Kashmir. It is also history and there is hardly any need to reflect on the heroic role he people of these two regions played during all these years of India's independence. However, there is a growing realization that had New Delhi empowered Jammu province in the manner it was required considering the nature of politics in the Valley, the situation in the state today would have been quite different and no Kashmiri leader would have ever dared to raise even a little finger against India. The feeling is that if Kashmir is to be saved for India in an effective manner or if the Kashmiri secessionists are to fought out comprehensively, the people of Jammu province have to be empowered. The argument is that it is not the people of Pathakot or some other place in the country who would come to Jammu to fight out the secessionists in Kashmir; It is the people of Jammu province who alone could fight out them. This was one of the points of discussion on October 9 among some concerned citizens of the country with one of them suggesting that the "time has come to empower Jammu province to the maximum extent possible in the larger national interest". It is hoped that new dispensation in New Delhi would appreciate the historic role of Jammu in the political history of the state and empower it by giving it a definite political instrument.
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