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| CJ Thakur's plain-speaking on J&K | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, May 11: Chief Justice of India (CJI) TS Thakur, who hails from Jammu's Ramban district, on Tuesday did a plain-speaking on J&K and very rightly said that the people of the State are a divided lot.
"(Jammu and) Kashmir had become a much divided society - people of Jammu want abrogation of Article 370 and total integration with India; those of Ladakh want their territory to become a union territory due to their mistrust about Kashmir's hegemony, the people of Kashmir are yearning for independence, while the Hindus of Kashmir who have been hounded out of the Valley want to have a homeland there". "This all makes (Jammu and) Kashmir a much divided house and therefore the solution to it was not easy. I don't see any immediate solution to this," he opined.
What he said about the nature of J&K State and its diversity were all well-considered views, which were also based on the hard realities as they exist in the State. Indeed, J&K is a divided State with the people of Jammu demanding separation from Kashmir, people of Ladakh struggling not only for separation from the Valley but also for Union Territory status, the hounded out Kashmiri Hindus striving hard to achieve a separate homeland in the Valley invested with the Union Territory status and Kashmiri Muslims raising demands ranging from autonomy to self-rule to azadi to merger with Pakistan to Indo-Pak joint control and joint-management to demilitarization to economic independence to porous borders to Islamic banking and so on.
The CJI was only right when he without mincing words said what he said. It is not a secret that there is nothing whatsoever that is common between the people of Jammu province and Kashmir Valley and between the latter and Ladakh and that the people of three regions have been pulling in different directions ever since the State's accession to India in 1947. Similarly, the hounded out and persecuted Kashmiri Hindus have made it loud and clear that they will not accept any solution that doesn't concede their demand of homeland and that they don't want to return to Kashmir to live with those who hounded them out of their homes and hearths way back in 1990 to establish there a theocratic polity and society - a fact that was reflected upon by the CJI.
Justice Thakur, in fact, told the audience that the "present turmoil in Kashmir is rooted in an ideology that Hindus and Muslims cannot live together" and what he said was what the people of Jammu province and Ladakh region had been saying since decades. They had been saying that the Kashmiri ideology is regressive, intolerant and anti-India and that they wanted their complete integration into India, as they vouched for national unity and Indian culture and civilization.
Now that it was none other than the CJI who brought to the notice of the nation the realities as they exist in the State, it is time for the powers-that-be in New Delhi to appreciate these realities and reorganize the State to limit the area of strife to the small Valley. They should realize that all of their efforts to bring about unity among the disparate people of all the three regions of the State have failed to produce the desired results and that it would be only politically prudent if Jammu and Ladakh are segregated from Kashmir and area north east of Jhelum is earmarked for the internally-displaced Kashmiri Hindus. Once it is done, it will be easy for the authorities to tackle those in Kashmir who have been creating trouble after trouble for the nation. And it is always better to limit the area of strife. This is what the genuine trouble-shooters always say. |
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