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It's State of Jammu & Kashmir and not state of Kashmir 'Assembly elections post-flood situation' 10/28/2014 11:22:42 PM Neha JAMMU, Oct 28: It has become customary with vested interests and anti-Jammu forces in the Valley and casual political commentators in Delhi and elsewhere to outrage the sensitivities of the people of Jammu province by terming the state of Jammu and Kashmir as the State of Kashmir, like the Congress and its leader and Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and his right hand man Gopalaswami Ayyangar had done in the Indian Constituent Assembly in May 1949. Thank god, there were members like Prof K T Shah (Bihar) and Pandit Lakshmi Kanata Moitra, who held the ground firmly and defeated the move of Nehru, a great supporter of the anti-Jammu Sheikh Abdullah, that was aimed at changing the nomenclature of the state from the State of Jammu & Kashmir to that of State of Kashmir. But why blame the vested interests in Kashmir who on a daily basis offend the feelings of the people of Jammu and Ladakh by also termin them Kashmiris which they are not and addressing the State of Jammu & Kashmir as the State of Kashmir knowing it full well that it was Kashmir which was added to the Jammu Kingdom in March 1846 and not the vice-versa. Jammu had purchased Kashmir from the British Government for Rs 75 lakh and Jammu remained at the helm of affairs till October 1947, when Nehru intrigued against Jammu and manipulated the state power for Sheikh Abdullah to teach Maharaja Hari Singh a lesson. Hari Singh had Nehru arrested at Kohala in 1946. The problem is not those Kashmiris who term the State of Jammu & Kashmir as the State of Kashmir. The real problem is the those intellectuals in the Jammu University who enjoyed status and continue to enjoy it willfully outrage the sensitivities of the people of Jammu province by terming the state as the State of Kashmir. Perhaps, they want to remain in the good books of Kashmiri leadership to grind their own axe. Only today, an article appeared in a local daily under the caption "Assembly election in post-flood situation". It was contributed by one Jammu-based self-styled intellectual and fake peace-monger and trouble-shooter. What did this intellectual say in the otherwise good article? The author, among other things, said: "The decision to go ahead with the election certainly may have been difficult, but frankly speaking there was no other option but to go ahead with the election. Postponing elections would have meant invoking Governor's Rule which would not have been a good approach for a volatile state like Kashmir". It is a matter of grave concern that we have in Jammu such authors who have the temerity to offend the people of Jammu province.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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