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| Impossible to evolve consensus on autonomy | | | Neha
JAMMU, Mar 30: NC president and Union Minister for Renewable Energy Farooq Abdullah on Saturday said that there is the need to convince political parties in New Delhi to go through the autonomy report on Jammu & Kashmir for addressing the Kashmir issue. There is the need to evolve a consensus on autonomy, he said. Farooq Abdullah and others of his ilk are, it appears, living in a fool's paradise. The NC leadership may succeed in hoodwinking and beguiling some of the gullible Kashmiri Muslims like in the past, but this pernicious break-India concept will have no takers in Jammu province and Ladakh region. The people of these two regions, which occupy over 88 per cent of the state's land area and house more than fifty per cent of the state's population, are the ardent believers in the concept of Indian unity and bitter critics of those in Kashmir who have been putting forth such seditious demands as autonomy.
It would not be out of place to mention here that it was because of the pressure from Jammu and Ladakh that the state was brought under the ambit of hundreds of central laws and many central institutions, including Election Commission, Supreme Court and Comptroller and Auditor-general. It was also because of the pressure from Jammu that the obnoxious permit system was abolished way back in the 1950s and the offices of Sadar-e-Riyasat and Chief Minister were abolished and those of the Governor and the Chief Minister introduced in the 1960. To be more precise, it was under pressure from Jammu and Ladakh that New Delhi brought the state at par with other states of the union to a considerable extent and the struggle in these two regions for the state's full integration with India continues unabated even today.
In fact, the people of Jammu and Ladakh have on occasions more than one warned New Delhi that any attempt on its part to withdraw any of the central laws or grant autonomy would mean explosions in these two regions. Not just the people of Jammu and Ladakh, including the refugees from West Pakistan, Pakistan-occupied-Jammu & Kashmir, the SCs, the STs, the OBCs and so on, the internally displaced Kashmiri Hindus too are opposed to the idea of the state getting more autonomy.
In fact, the internally-displaced Kashmiri Hindus, like the Ladakhis and several Jammu-based social and political groups, are demanding reorganization of the state and application of the Indian Constitution to the state in full, barring Article 370. They have been saying that they cannot co-exist with those who hate the Indian Constitution and seek another communal partition of the country.
Farooq Abdullah says there is the need to convince political parties in Delhi so that Jammu & Kashmir gets autonomy. The political parties in Delhi cannot decide the fate of Jammu and Ladakh. The people of Jammu and Ladakh, besides the displaced Kashmiri Hindus, are master of their own destiny and this right of theirs cannot be denied. It would be dangerous to take these people for a ride. |
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