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| Moves afoot to break Jammu into smithereens | | Pernicious concept of sub-regions | | Rustam
JAMMU, Jan 20: One can understand the reasons behind the ill-designed and communally-motivated insistence of Kashmiri leaders on a regime that divides politically, historically, culturally, economically and geographically distinct Jammu province into sub-regions. One can also understand the reasons behind the insistence of the Kashmiri-influenced "conflict-managers" like Indian Minorities Comm-ission chairman Wajahat Habibul-lah and former interlocutors Dilip Pagda-onkar and Radha Kumar on a similar dispensation. They all want to divide Jammu province into various regions on purely communal lines. Their objective always had been, and continues to be, to pit the members of one community against the other, defeat the movement in the province for its socio-economic and political regeneration or for its political and economic empowerment, loot and plunder its natural resources, exploit it to the hilt to enrich Kashmir Valley, perpetuate the Kas-hmiri stranglehold over it and create a communal environment that helps the votaries of Greater Kashmir to accomplish their age-old and most-cherished ambition.
Pernicious concept of sub-regionsThe Kashmiri leadership and the so-called Delhi-based think-tanks, who are blissfully ignorant of the ground realities in Jammu & Kashmir or who have been under some very baneful influence, have all through sought to break Jammu province into smithereens suggesting that Jammu province, unlike Kashmir, houses a highly diverse population and that there are sub-regions in the province which need special care and attention. By sub-regions they mean certain non-Muslim majority areas. So much so that some of them on occasions directly and indirectly hold the non-Muslims of the province, especially those who inhabit Jammu city, responsible for the "neglect and under-development" of the people professing a particular religion and inhabiting "sub-regions". While doing so, they conveniently forget the role of those (in this case Kashmiri leadership and its Jammu-based cronies) who have been at the helm of affairs since 1947. They also conveniently overlook the fact that those who are at the helm have put in place a system across the state under which district plans are formulated, approved and implemented. Remember, chairman of each district development board is one cabinet minister or the other, with the concerned Member of Parliament and MLAs and MLCs members of the concerned district board.
The fact of the matter is that Jammu province has been witnessing moves aimed at destroying its unity and territorial integrity. Those who have been using such terms as Chenab Valley region and Pir Panjal region represent those forces in Jammu province which have been working on behalf of those who have been striving to set-up Greater Kashmir comprising Kashmir and its adjoining Muslim-majority areas in Jammu province and trans-Himalayan Ladakh.
The worst part of the whole situation has been that certain ministers haling from Jammu province have willingly and very happily walked into the dangerous trap laid by the rabidly anti-Jammu forces and started talking in terms regions and sub-regions. Take, for example, what the newly-appointed Minister for Planning and Development, Labour and Employment Ajay Sadhotra said yesterday in a review meeting held in Jammu. Reviewing the functioning of Planning and Development Department at a high level meeting, he, inter-alia, said that the coalition government headed by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah (wanted) to ensure all-round and rapid development of all the three regions and sub-regions. The minister did not do justice to the province he hails from. He only jeopardized the paramount interests of Jammu province by speaking a language the vested interests use to speak to hit the people of this province below the belt and further their pernicious agenda. One would hope that the Planning Minister would see through the ulterior game plan of anti-Jammu forces and work out a plan aimed at enabling the people of Jammu province to compensate for the losses they suffered during all these 65 years at the hands of Kashmir.
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