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Things could assume alarming proportions in Duggar Pradesh
Future Of Jammu
9/11/2011 1:42:28 AM
Neha
Jammu, Sept 10: Things in the state and at New Delhi are moving quite fast. The Americans' "interference" in the internal affairs of India to influence the Indian foreign policy towards Islamabad; the startling revelations made by the whistleblower Wikileaks about Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's willingness to undermine the Indian sovereignty in Jammu and Kashmir and give major, major concessions to Pakistan in the Indian Jammu and Kashmir; Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's public pronouncement that the "solution to the Kashmir problem is in the offing"; the unconfirmed report that chief interlocutor on Jammu and Kashmir Dileep Padgaonkar had invited the US-based Kashmiri separatist and lobbyist Farooq Kathwari to New Delhi to discuss with him "his roadmap on Jammu and Kashmir"; and the recent reports in a leading national daily that the interlocutors could recommend withdrawal of the Central laws from the state in order to restore Article 370 to its original position all establish that certain internal and external forces have ganged up to disturb the Indian apple-cart in the sensitive border State of Jammu and Kashmir.
These developments unambiguously suggest that an insidious influence is at work to defeat and negate what the nation did after August 1953 to integrate the state to New Delhi politically and constitutionally as well as frustrate the evil designs of those in Kashmir who had been indulging in conspiratorial activities to separate the state from India and reestablish there a local oligarchy with a theocratic system of administration in place.
But more than that, these developments and revelations - apart from suggesting the ganging up of some nefarious forces - leave none in any doubt that those who want New Delhi to hasten the so-called peace process with Pakistan and conciliate the so-called alienated Kashmiri Muslim leaders, both separatist and "mainstream" - have no regard whatever for the sentiments and aspirations of the Dogras, who constitute almost half of the state's population and inhabit an area two times that of Kashmir and have been struggling since 1947 to link their political and economic fate with India. Those who have been conspiring against India to create an environment that accords legitimacy to politics of separatism and communalism and enables Islamabad to promote its geo-political interests in the region at the cost of the Indian nation have perhaps come to believe that the aspirations of the Dogras could be drawn away through some petty and illusory concessions. Their assessment about the Dogras is not based on the realities as they exist on the ground.
The Dogrs are not a purchase community; their leadership, of course, could be. The Dogras are a martial race. They have played a remarkable role in the history of India. They were the ones who not only created the State of Jammu and Kashmir in 1846 through sophisticated diplomacy and political sagacity but they also secured the crucial northern frontiers for India. It is a different story that Jawaharlal Nehru and others of his ilk negated the splendid contribution of the Dogras by making common cause with Sheikh Abdullah of the NC and allowing Pakistan to grab our strategic northern areas. But this is history and could be discussed later on.
Right now the issue under consideration is the recent developments and the response these developments could evoke from the Dogras. It can be said without any hesitation that the Dogras are keenly watching these developments and their implications and that things in the Duggar Pradesh could assume alarming proportions anytime from now. It is really strange that the powers-that-be in New Delhi and elsewhere do not appreciate the Dogras and what they stand for and what they could do to frustrate and defeat the evil forces. They need to appreciate the Dogras and their aspirations and fighting spirit. Not to do so or to continue to ignore them would be to create more problems than resolving the existing ones.
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