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| Is PDP capable of carrying Jammu with-III | | | Bashir Assad
SRINAGAR, Oct 13: Now, when the regional character of the politics is debated and the roadmaps offered by the regional political of Jammu and Kashmir are before us, the question still remains as to how the people of Jammu could identify themselves with the regional political formations having their ideological locations in Kashmir.
First, the demographic realities have to be accepted and for that any argument is certainly fraught with dangerous consequences and is likely to widen the persisting divide along religious lines. Given this hard reality the demand for separate statehood as the demand was combined with the empowerment by some people, could be even more dangerous for the nation and national integration.
Now, again given the hard demographic realities and the less influence of the people of Jammu region in the governance, three possibly way-outs are available, however, each having its drawbacks. Collective response of Indian Muslims to the emerging situations shall be the referral- point.
One; forming a new regional political party from the region along socio-political and religious lines is likely to meet the same fate, the Muslim League in India met with. And every body knows that Muslim League ended up in a disaster. Of, the experiment has already failed in Jammu as there were hardly takers for a "separate statehood" demand on the basis of which some sections had started mobilization in Jammu.
Second: the lack of "right kind of regional leadership, according to many has been a problem for the people of Jammu. Though, various people from academic and intellectual circles are of the considered view that it is actually the leadership that can certainly change the political discourse, yet the question remains as to whether leadership alone can be answer to all the socio-economic, political, cultural and religious problems of the people of Jammu. Certainly not. If leadership should have been the problem, Jammu should have achieved the best some two or three decades back because the region produced many high profile leaders having a clout who were either in National Conference or the Congress or the Right-Wing and even were a part of the decision making for decades.
Third: Finally, there is a growing perception the people of Jammu should recognize the State as reference point taking clue from the Muslims of India who developed more and more stakes in regional political forces like Samajwadi, even BSP, TDP, Assam Ganaparisged, ADMK, AIDMK, of late the Trinamol Congress in West Bengal instead of forming rather supporting the idea Muslim Political Party or parties. The survey suggests that Muslims in India do not want to be represented by Muslim political and/or religious elites. Interestingly, the most important socio-political demands of Indian Muslims like poverty and unemployment are not addressed to Muslim elites.
So it requires an exploration of a possibility of identifying with the regional political parties for the contextual placing of the people of Jammu in the socio-cultural cosmos of Hindu community. Yet, we can certainly argue that pro-active participation of the people of Jammu in different forms of politics should be taken seriously by the political leadership to understand the multiplicity of the political representation debates. (concluded) |
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