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| Referendum par Kashmir ko josh kyun aata hai? | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Jan 9: Aam Aadmi Party's Prashant Bhushan has been a hero for the Valley's pseudo-intellectual kingdom on account of his soft corner towards the Naxalite insurgency, and lately the separatist militancy in Jammu and Kashmir. Constituents of this political spectrum have been in a longtime liaison with Bhushan and a few others on account of the latter's perceived concern for the human rights abuse by Police and security forces.
Despite the Hurriyat's own current conflict , which the former Chairman and the professor of Persian language and literature Abdul Gani Bhat would call 'taqseem-dar-taqseem' (division into division), being in its full bloom and every head of the two-man organizations claiming to be the "leader", Shehr-e-Khaas was plush last week with its typical high spirits for AAP. Not indeed for Arvind Kejriwal's showers of relief to the downtrodden in Delhi but actually for the foot-in-the-mouth lawyer-politician's bogey of a Plebiscite. Without the demarcation of the constituency, Bhushan had said that a referendum alone should decide the fate of the J&K Armed Forces Special Powers Act [AFSPA] in Kashmir.
People in Srinagar downtown and other secessionist areas were instantly euphoric as they stopped short of celebrating the 'preamble of the document of Azadi' with firecrackers on the streets. Bhushan's suggestion of a referendum [on the AFSPA] went wrong with the suppressed, silent majority in the valley. But many of the self-styled human rights champions were inebriated---feeling that if today there was a referendum on the AFSPA, tomorrow it could be on the choice of Azadi and Ghulami.
Soon the praises for Bhushan went viral on Facebook and Twitter throughout the Valley. His old human rights activist friends in Kashmir began praising Bhushan as "a great realist". As the pressure built up on Kejriwal, he lost no time to clarify that these were Bhushan's "personal views". For the first time in the AAP's less than a year long political history, Kejriwal, now Delhi's Chief Minister, made it unambiguously clear that Jammu and Kashmir was India's integral part. He emphasized that the decision towards increasing or decreasing the number of the armed forces and their extraordinary powers lay with none other than the professional military officers and defence experts.
Not only that, within hours of Kejriwal's clarification, Bhushan himself asserted publicly that J&K was India's integral part and there was no question of any referendum, on AFSPA or other issues. Suddenly, the valley's praises began fading out, much the way Barack Hossain Obama, Farha Pandit etc were forgotten after they made it clear that they were for America, the first and the last. Need not to talk about Sadam Hussain, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Moamar Qaddafi and other "well wishers of the Kashmir" who all died at the hands of the same Americans who are still perceived to be Messiahs by some in the Valley.
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