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| Mr Bhim, Problem in Kashmir communal, not human | | Meeting With EU Delegation | | STARK REALITY
RUSTAM
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, May 15: On May 13, JKNPP chairman Bhim Singh met the five-member delegation of European Union (EU) in Srinagar. During the meeting, Bhim Singh told the EU delegation that Jammu and Kashmir was not a religious problem. He told them that the problem was “human.” “J&K is a human problem and the main reason is Line of Control, which divides the families and the people that needs to be addressed by both India and Pakistan. The permanent residents of both sides of J&K should be allowed to travel across LoC with ordinary passports issued by the respective countries without any visa,” he, in fact, told the EU delegation.
One can agree or disagree with the methodology Bhim Singh suggested for facilitating travel between this and that part of Jammu and Kashmir. In fact, bulk of the Indian nation would reject outright the methodology he suggested because what he suggested was what the Kashmiri separatists and their supporters in New Delhi and elsewhere have been suggesting since years now. But no objective and dispassionate Kashmir-watcher would agree with the suggestion of Bhim Singh that the Kashmir problem is “human.” The problem in Kashmir, which has been ruling the roost since 1947 and exploiting the people of Jammu and Ladakh to the hilt since then, is essentially communal.
It appears that Bhim Singh, like the Kashmiri separatists and communalists, is not prepared to accept the ground reality in Kashmir. The ground reality in Kashmir, according to none other than the former Governor of Jammu and Kashmir, Lt Gen (retd) S K Sinha, is that it is the politics of communalism that is being indulged in by the Kashmiri leadership and that whatever happened in Kashmir in the past and what is happening today in the Valley is nothing but the immediate fall-out of the politics of communalism Kashmiri leaders, “mainstream” or otherwise, have been indulging in for reasons not really difficult to fathom. The Chief Minister knows it very well, but he would not acknowledge it for obvious reasons. The PDP is there. The separatists are also there in Kashmir. They would pounce upon Omar Abdullah the moment he says that the fundamental reason behind the Kashmir turmoil is communalism; the reason behind the unrest in Kashmir is the urge of communalists for their merger with Pakistan.
Bhim Singh would do well to remember that there is no problem of Jammu and Kashmir. It’s problem in Kashmir. The problem is neither constitutional nor a political one. It is basically a problem of uncontested communalism in Kashmir. It is a different story that the Government of India has, instead of calling the Kashmiris’ bluff and isolating the Kashmiri separatists and communalists, has only addressed it by incremental surrenders or by creating a process of circumventing it, thus aggravating further the already aggravated Kashmir’s communal scene.
It would be better if Bhim Singh looks all these facts in the face and work for the Agenda 2011 he adopted some four months ago in Jammu and his agenda was “reorganization of the state, separate Chief Minister and separate assembly for Jammu.” He just cannot take along both – the neglected people of Jammu province and the over-pampered Kashmir and Kashmiri leadership whose bottom line is secession. He has to choose one if he is to remain relevant. Obviously, his choice should be Jammu. He should remember that he is exactly there where he was decades ago, when he founded his party declaring that Jammu province was his watchword and Jammu province his battle-cry.
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