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| Demand for trifurcation of J&K gets louder | | Telangana effect | | Rustam
JAMMU, Aug 2: It was expected that the decision to create separate Telangana State out of Andhra Pradesh would give a fillip to the demand in Jammu for statehood and Union Territory status in Ladakh and it has happened. The demands for statehood for Jammu Pradesh and Union Territory status for Ladakh have become louder and shrill then ever before.
In Jammu, several organizations, including Panthers Party, the Bahujan Samaj Party, the Jammu State Morcha (S), the Jammu State Morcha, the Shiv Sena, the Dogra Liberation Front and so on have demanded separation from Kashmir, saying that they have nothing in common with Kashmir and that they cannot accept the position of servitude any longer.
The Panthers Party has asserted that the reorganization of the state is imminent and that it would be only desirable if the authorities reorganize the state before things go out of hand in Jammu Pradesh.
The Jammu State Morcha has said the same thing and urged the authorities to trifurcate the state at the earliest warning that any delay on their part would create serious problem in the state. It has also said that the trifurcation of the state would limit the area of communal strife to parts of the Valley and promote sound politics based on democratic, economic and administrative issues.
The Bahujan Samaj Party has said that it will take the fight to a "logical conclusion". It has said if the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and other Backward Classes in Jammu Pradesh are to get their legitimate due share in the political and economic processes, the state has to be trifurcated. The Shiv Sena has said it will not tolerate the Kashmiri domination and work with a single-minded devotion to achieve the status of statehood for Jammu.
The Citizen Forum and the Jammu Province Peoples Forum, too, have expressed identical views and warned that the discriminatory policies of the State Government have ended the patience of the people of Jammu Pradesh and the time has come to take remedial measures, failing which things could assume alarming proportions in the otherwise peaceful but rather angry Jammu Pradesh.
More importantly, bulk of the BJP leadership and cadres too has urged the party leadership to support the statehood demand in the larger interest of the party. "People of Jammu are raising the demand for statehood due to perpetual discrimination against them," said Jugal Kishore Sharma, State president of BJP.
In the far off Ladakh, the BJP has demanded Union Territory status for the region. In fact, former MP and senior BJP leader Thupstan Chhewang, along with other party leaders, on Thursday held a press conference in Leh and demand Union Territory status for the region. Thupstan said, "The people of Ladakh have been demanding separation from Jammu and Kashmir, as we fulfill all the criteria and norms that are essential for an area to be declared as a separate entity". "Ladakhis have suffered immensely under the oppressive rule and domination by Kashmir and want liberation from slave-like situation," he also said.
There are cogent reasons to believe that the demand for statehood and Union territory status would become louder and louder with each passing day. It's no wonder then that the Kashmiri leadership is feeling concerned and alarmed. Chief Minister Omar Abdullah was right when he on July 30 expressed the view that the decision on Telangana could provoke the people of Jammu Pradesh to unleash a relentless struggle for separate Jammu State. |
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