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| Refugee Issue: JKLF Malik partly right, partly wrong | | Spreading falsehood | | Neha
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Feb 4: Self-styled chairman of JKLF Yasin Malik, like many others in Kashmir, has unleashed a vilification campaign against PDP leader and Lok Sabha MP Muzzaffar Hussain Beig for his reasonable stand on the refugees from West Pakistan, the other day said that State subject laws were directly related to Kashmiris' struggle. "The State Subject Act was enacted by erstwhile Maharaja (Hari Singh) of J&K in 1927 and the main reason for it was that Kashmir being a hill state full of natural resources needed to be safeguarded from the flow of population, who apparently cared for the ecology of Jammu Kashmir more than the new era pro-India politicians," he said, and added that "when resistance (read separatist) camp talks about safeguarding State Subject Laws we have nothing to do with Indian constitution". "It is NC, PDP and other pro-India parties and their members like Muzaffar Beigh who on one side use rhetoric of safeguarding article 370 to hoodwink people but on the other side have eroded it to such level that former home minister and interim prime minister of India Gulzari Lal Nanda referred to it as a shell and said that whether you keep it or not, it has been completely emptied of its contents. Nothing has been left in it," he further said.
Malik was only partly right and partly wrong when he claimed that the State Subject Laws were directly related to Kashmiri Muslims' struggle. Maharaja Hari Singh enacted the State Subject Laws to defeat the ongoing movement in Kashmir that was aimed at forcing the Maharaja to "import educated Muslims from Punjab" and other British Indian provinces so that "they could man all the positions in the government in J&K, including the positions of provincial Governors". And the initiative came from the Jammu-based Dogra Sadar Sabha, which was established in 1904 by public-spirited people. It was the Dogra Sadar Sabha of which the Maharaja of J&K was the patron that was responsible for the enactment of the State Subject Laws. Maharaja Hari Singh didn't introduce the State Subject Laws to "save J&K's ecology", as claimed by Yasin and other communal forces in the Valley. This is what a peep into the history of the State Subject Lawsin J&K clearly and unambiguously reveals.
All the relevant records are available with the State Archives Repository, Jammu, and these are easily accessible. Yasin and others of his ilk need to visit the State Archives to update their knowledge. But they will not visit the State Archives Repository to update their knowledge, as such an attempt pf their part would expose them. They only believe in and preach falsehood to promote their insidious and anti-minority and anti-national agenda.
Now that the state has been witnessing a fierce debate on the State Subject Laws, it is the duty of the State Government to issue a white paper on the subject to resolve the controversy and put things in perspective. |
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