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| Barve, Kak & Malik cannot unsettle the settled in Jammu & Kashmir | | Learning From Sir Creek Debate | | Rustam
JAMMU, Dec 15: The Executive Director of the Delhi-based highly questionable Centre for Dialogue and Reconciliation (CDR) Sushobha Barve may bring to Jammu controversial persons like former Air-Vice Marshal (Retired) Kapil Kak and former Chief Justice of the High Court of the so-called Azad Kashmir and organize discussions on such dubious and sinister themes as "Multiple Stakeholders", but she and others, who have been funding such mischievous exercises would surely come out of such exercises minus everything. They just can unsettle the settled in Jammu and Kashmir. For, an overwhelming majority of the people in Jammu and Kashmir is an ardent believer in the concept of India and Indian sovereignty and those who have been targeting the Indian state constitute only a minority, if not a microscopic minority. Only the leadership of one particular religious sect is opposing India and things Indian. Barve and others of her ilk must recognize this stark reality and hold aloof from Jammu and Kashmir. They are simply striving to achieve the unachievable. The CDR may mint easy money, but it cannot achieve its ulterior objective. That's it.
Even otherwise, they have no role to play in the state, as the Indian nation, which has suffered immensely during all these 65 years of the State's accession to India both in terms of men and money, is vehemently opposed to the idea of the state getting more political concessions as well as weakening of the Indian control along the India-Pakistan border and the Line of Control. They should not overlook these realities in their desperate bid to muddy the Indian waters in the state in general and the militant and the Pakistan-sponsored terrorist-infested Kashmir valley.
They would also do well to take cognizance of the fact that the Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's December 12 letter to the Prime Minister in which he accused Manmohan Singh of thinking in terms of "handing over" Sir Creek to Pakistan has rattled the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) as well as the entire Congress leadership. Both the PMO and the Congress have rejected the Gujarat Chief Minister's apprehension out-of-hand and given the country to understand that they will not compromise the Indian position on Sir Creek or that those who are thinking that New Delhi would accord legitimacy to the Pakistani claim to the strategic Sir Creek are not only living in a world of the past, but are also misleading the nation. Both the Prime Minister and the Congress leadership have sought to reassure the nation that the UPA Government would not allow anyone to tinker with Indian sovereignty and alter the Indian borders.
It is not that important that Modi raked up the issue when the election process in his state is on. He is Chief Minister of Gujarat and he has every right to speak on issues of the state and national import as well as issues of strategic importance, and, hence, he must not be questioned for what he did and continues to do to further educate the already rather awakened Indian nation. What is important is the response his charge evoked from the PMO and the Congress. They knew that Modi had raked up a sensitive issue and that was the reason they did their best to come clean.
Barve and others, who hobnob with negative forces for reasons not difficult to fathom, must learn lesson from the ongoing bitter debate on Sir Creek. It is a must. |
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