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| They hate Indian state, not Indian taxpayers' money | | Relief, rehabilitation in Kashmir | | Rustam
JAMMU, Oct 5: Kashmiri leaders of all hues condemn the Indian state. They dismiss it as alien, oppressor and anti-Kashmiri Muslims. They want the Indian Army to quit Kashmir as they describe it an occupation force. They want New Delhi to withdraw from the state all the central laws and institutions, saying that these are anti-Kashmir and anti-Kashmiri Muslims and that these have only eroded their distinct identity. They denounce the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) as draconian and want this legislation to be revoked or withdrawn.
Some Kashmiri leaders want New Delhi to grant greater autonomy to the state, bordering on virtual sovereignty, saying this is the only way out to end alienation in the Kashmir Valley and enable Kashmiri Muslims to protect and promote their identity. They have no place whatsoever in their scheme of things for the people of Jammu province and Ladakh region, who, everyone knows, are out and out for New Delhi.
Some Kashmiri leaders want Jammu & Kashmir to become part of Muslim Pakistan, saying it is the natural right of the Muslim-majority state to secede from India and become part of the ideology Pakistan vouches for, preaches and represents. (Jammu & Kashmir cannot be described as a Muslim-majority state, as nearly 40 per cent of its population is non-Muslim.) Some Kashmiri leaders want independence from India, saying that Jammu & Kashmir cannot maintain any truck with what they call communal India and Hindu India. And all the Kashmiri leaders, without any exception, maintain that Jammu & Kashmir is a not a settled issue and claim that the manner in which the state acceded to India on October 26, 1947 was questionable.
However, when it comes to fleecing the Indian nation and looting and plundering the Indian taxpayers' money, all Kashmiri leaders speak in one language. They say it is the responsibility of the Government of India to not only meet the financial needs of Kashmir and Kashmiri Muslims, but also to compensate the losses Kashmir suffers due to some natural calamity or manmade disaster. This scribe is not making a mountain out of a molehill. This is a statement of fact.
Take, for example, what Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, JKPCC chief Saif-ud-Din Soz, Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and several other self-styled Kashmiri leaders have been saying in the wake of the devastation the recent floods caused. Each one of them is asking New Delhi to pump into Kashmir money for rebuilding Srinagar and other devastated pockets in the Kashmir Valley. Many of them are accusing New Delhi of not doing anything substantial for the rehabilitation of the flood-affected people. Soz, for example, Saturday said that the NDA Government has not extended financial support to the state government for rehabilitation of the flood sufferers so far. It's a white lie. Similarly, Geelani went to the extent of saying that the rehabilitation of the affected people is the responsibility of the government. "It is the responsibility of the government to rehabilitate them and compensate their losses. The government should formulate a rehabilitation package for the flood-affedted people in Kashmir as was done for the return for the migrant Pandits in which every Pandit family is to be given Rs 20 lalk. The compensation for the destroyed houses due to the floods should be on the same lines and it should reach the deserving people at the earliest".
All this shows that they only hate the Indian state, but not the Indian taxpayers' hard-earned money. It must remain a matter of shame for them. It is time New Delhi called their bluff. At the same time, it needs to continue its relief and rehabilitation work not only in the Valley but also in Jammu, which suffered more damage. |
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