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| Division of Jammu & Kashmir appears inevitable | | State in turmoil | | Rustam
JAMMU, Aug 6: Political situation in Jammu and Kashmir has changed dramatically during the past five days clearly suggesting that concerted moves are afoot to ensure the division of the state into three states and one separate homeland with the Kashmir valley.
What electrified the political situation in Jammu Pradesh and Ladakh region was the August 30 decision of the Congress party and the Congress-dominated UPA to bifurcate Andhra Pradesh and set up a new State of Telangana. As was expected, a number of political groups active in Jammu Pradesh and Ladakh region and organizations of displaced Kashmiri Hindus took the decision of the UPA to mean a God-sent opportunity and hold press conferences to tell the powers that-be that they want the state to be divided.
In Jammu, at least six political groups, including the JKNPP, the BSP, the JSM, the Shiv Sena, the Duggar Pradesh Party and the People's Revolutionary Movement, which along with other groups, agitated between 2009 and 2010 for Central University and got it, demanded division of the state, saying the people of Jammu Pradesh could not live under the Kashmir-dominated and Kashmir-centric dispensation and that they want a dispensation within India and under the Indian Constitution independent of Kashmir.
In Ladakh, the BJP, the LBA and members of the LUTF upped the ante and demanded separation from Kashmir advancing the arguments the Jammu-based political groups advanced while reiterating their demand for the reorganization of the state. They said the state has outlived its utility, as it has failed to come up to the expectations of the people. They, like the Jammu-based political groups, rejected outright the Kashmiri leadership's demands ranging from autonomy to self-rule to azadi and declared that no power on earth can impose the Kashmiri will on them.
The organizations of the internally-displaced Kashmiri Hindus also did not lag behind. One of the organizations not only reiterated the demand seeking division of Kashmir and creation of separate homeland within the Valley for "seven lakh displaced Kashmiri Hindus", but also declared that it would hold a big meeting of distinguished persons where it would chalk out its plan aimed at achieving homeland.
It was not for nothing that Chief Minister and National Conference working president Omar Abdullah tweeted the same day and express the view that the decision of the Union Could provoke the people of Jammu Pradesh to create a Telangana-line situation in the region to obtain status of statehood - a tweet that was disliked by many Kashmiri leaders, including senior PDP leader and former Deputy Chief Minister Muzaffar Hussain Baig. But Omar Abdullah had only spoken the truth. He is not just Chief Minister; he also holds the vital Home portfolio. And as Home Minister he knows what is going on above and beneath the political surface in the state. The truth is that the July 30 decision of the UPA to create Telangana State has created a novel situation in the state clearly indicating the direction things are moving towards slowly but surely.
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