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| Rise in insurgency in Punjab may impact peace in J&K | | | If the latest terror strike in Dinanagar town in Punjab's Gurdaspur district,neighbouring Jammu and Kashmir state,is any guide attempts are being made to revive insurgency in Punjab on the scale that was witnessed between 1980 and 1993. The Dinanagar incident cannot be treated as a mere aberration because it indicates that agencies across the border were providing material,moral and diplomatic support to some disgruntled youths.Reports said that agencies across the border were trying to revive insurgency in Punjab which could divert the attention of the Government of India and the security agencies, especially the Army,which have been concentrating their focus on promoting peace in Jammu and Kashmir.And if militancy took birth in Jammu and Kashmir in 1988-89 it was during the time insurgency was at its peak in Punjab.In fact agencies across the border had incited groups of youths,after the community felt offended when the successive central Governments did not accept the Anandpur Sahib resolution which reflected religious and political aspirations of the community. And when the central Government rejected the resolution one Jarnail Singh Bindranwale joined the Akali Dal for starting what he would call the Dharam Yudh which ultimately resulted in the Operation Blue star of 1984. However, whatever may have been the factors the Government was able to curb militancy in Punjab by 1993.And it was only in 1995 that the then Chief Minister, Beant Singh,was killed.
And after Beant Singh's assassination the Dinanagar incident has shaken people and the state Governments not only in Punjab but in Jammu and kashmir.It has upset the Modi led Government because the Dinanagar incident could be treated as a big blot on the BJP-Akali Dal coalition Government in Punjab. The incident reads like a horror story because in this incident .at least 10 persons, including an SP, and three terrorists were killed and 10 injured when heavily armed terrorists wearing army fatigues hijacked a car, drove down to Dinanagar town in Punjab's Gurdaspur district, opened fire at a bus stand and then stormed a police station in the town.Punjab Police SP (Investigation) Baljit Singh, posted at Gurdaspur, was said to be among those killed. Besides, six other policemen and two detainees at the police station were shot dead. Three civilians were also killed, including a person inside an adjoining hospital.It was really a daring act.Those who were witness to the gory incident believe that those who had carried out the attack had received sufficient training in carrying out strikes against the soft targets.Attacking the police station was part of the plan to create scare among people and cause demoralisation among the men of the police.
During the last 25 years both the successive state and the central Governments have been concentrating on handling the fluid security situation in Jammu and Kashmir.And during the last six years the level of militancy related violence in Jammu and Kashmir had registered a marked decline.
And agencies across the LOC had been upset over two developments. One,the security scenario in the state had improved and secondly the border management had been upgraded to the extent that all attempts at helping groups of militants at crossing into Jammu and Kashmir were being foiled by the Army.Hence these agencies across the border thought that by reviving insurgency in Punjab the attention of the Army,security forces and the Government of India could get diverted from Kashmir to Punjab.And instead of deploying additional columns of security forces for upgrading the anti-ingress grid on the LOC and IB in Jammu and Kashmir the Government may pull out some compnies of troops for anti-insurgency operations in Punjab.But the Government circles say that there is no possibility for reducing deployment of security forces in Jammu and Kashmir as India has sufficient forces for taking care of Punjab.Still new dimensions have been added to anti-insurgency plan in Jammu and Kashmir.The intelligence agencies have to cooperate with the security agencies to find out if some channels were being opened for reviving link between militants in Punjab and those operating in Jammu and Kashmir.This possible nexus has to be broken if the security agencies want peace not to get derailed in Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir. |
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