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| Trifurcation demand gains momentum in Jammu | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, May 28: Convinced that national media and even sections of local media in Jammu will not present a true story of facts and that they will continue to focus more and more only on Kashmir and ignore the genuine concerns of the people of Jammu province, civil society members in the region have become very active on social networking sites, including twitter, facebook and whatsapp, to present their view on the nature of the ongoing secessionist movement in Kashmir, nature of the state polity and plight of Jammu, Ladakh, Kashmiri Hindus and other neglected social groups, including refugees from West Pakistan and POJK.
The last three weeks have witnessed civil society members in Jammu using social media and telling the nation that the Kashmiri politics of secessionism and communalism and their opposition to the Sainik Colony and colony of Kashmiri Hindus is nothing but a manifestation of their hatred for India and the nationalist minorities and that Jammu and Ladakh want to get separated from Kashmir so that these neglected and looked down upon regions obtain a political status in the Indian polity they lawfully deserve. Trifurcate the state into Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh States is the upshot of their interventions in the social networking sites.
They have been advancing the argument that the Indian political class, national media and Delhi-based journalists, commentators, think-tanks, policy-planners and trouble-shooters are blissfully ignorant about the nature of crisis in Kashmir and that they take Kashmir to mean the entire State of J&K and the aspirations of Kashmiri separatists and semi-separatists as the aspirations of the entire population of the state. Their grouse against them is that they do not say a word for the neglected people of Jammu and Ladakh, who inhabit more than 88 per cent of the state's land area and constitute almost half of the population, and that they talk about only Kashmir and Kashmiri aspirations.
Yet another grouse of theirs is that the office of the Chief Minister has become the sole preserve of Kashmir. They have been asking: If Muslims, who constituted minority, could become Chief Minister in the Hindu-majority States of Bihar, Rajasthan, Assam and Maharashtra, why can't a Hindu or a Buddhist hold the top executive office in J&K? Their argument is valid. How is it that none from Jammu or Ladakh could become Chief Minister during the past more than 69 years?
The civil society members in Jammu are also using the social media to inform the nation that Kashmir elects 46 members to the 87-member assembly despite the fact that Jammu has area two time more that of Kashmir and has an equal number of voters with Kashmir, if not more. "It is unjust, invidious and preponderant share of representation of Kashmir in the assembly that has sealed the fate of Jammu and Ladakh and that if these two regions are to achieve parity with Kashmir and obtain justice, they must get their due share of representation in the assembly," they are telling the nation using the social media.
Significantly, the attack of the civil society members in Jammu is on New Delhi and Indian political parties, especially the BJP and the Congress, and not really on Kashmiri leadership. "New Delhi and parties like the BJP and the Congress are responsible for the neglect of Jammu and Ladakh regions," they have been trying to tell the nation.
It can be said that the social networking sites have become for the civil society groups effective tools and it would not be out of place to mention here that today it is the social media that shapes and moulds the public opinion. It is good that the Jammu civil society has recognized the importance of social media. |
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