To His Excellency, Sh. NN Vohra with reverence
Your Excellency,
In extreme pain and agony, I am impelled to write to you as the custodian of Constitution of India in the State of J&K.
As a patriotic citizen of India, I, a permanent resident of J&K am distressed by the couple of incidents that took place in the State during the last few days. I am sure that you would have taken a note of all of them, but given the constitutional authority you enjoy as the Governor of this State that gets biggest platter of goodies from the Union Government, I expected you to do more than just take a note. I expected that you had done something to assert the ascendancy of the union of India in the State of Jammu and Kashmir which is being persistently eroded.
I am distressed Your Excellency that close to seven decades after my State became an integral part of India, its elected Chief Minister repeatedly questions its accession to the union of India not only on the floor of Assembly, but also before the visiting foreign delegations, but you do not express your displeasure.
I am distressed Your Excellency that despite the fact that my State enjoys 'special status' in the country and gets unbound concessions; despite the fact that hundreds of men in olive and in khaki who were not the 'subjects' of this State have made supreme sacrifices here to fight terror and a hostile neighbor since independence, the leader of the Opposition in the State Legislative Assembly calls Kashmir a 'colony' suggesting as if India was an aggressor; but you do not express you displeasure.
I am distressed Your Excellency that while educational institutions are the places where we nurture national ethos, the rector of an off campus of the University of Jammu, of which you are the Chancellor denies permission to the students to celebrate the birth anniversary of the greatest martyr of the country Shaheed-e-Aazam Sardar Bhagat Singh, but you do not express your displeasure.
I am distressed Your Excellency that at a function in the Kashmir university, where you are present as the Chancellor, the National Anthem of my country is disrespected. It was not the first occasion that an emblem of Indian nationalism was put to contempt in Kashmir University, but you do not express your displeasure.
With utmost reverence to the highest office that you grace in the State, I sincerely hope that you would do something to assuage the pain and agony that I and many a sensitive subjects of this State like me swallow every day due to incidents like these.
Thanking you in anticipation,
Yours faithfully
Abodh Sharma,
A 'Subject' of J&K
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A patriotic citizen of India |
