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| WG5 digressed from its agenda | | | Early Times Reporter
JAMMU | Sep 4
The working group on Jammu and Kashmir, appointed by the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, as a sequel to round table conferences, to evolve consensus among various political opinions in the state over J&K's constitutional relationship with India and the need if any for change in the prevailing one, has in its two day meeting at New Delhi, concluding September 3, instead further brought to sharp focus inter regional tensions, distrust and rivalry in the state. Instead of centre-state relationship as far J&K is concerned being the main focus of the deliberations, the discussion was marked by mutual regional relationship in the state, with opinions sharply divided among the representatives of three distinct regions as well as among different communities in the State. Not only this, but the meeting was sought to be hijacked by some participants to settle personal scores with their rivals by highlighting individual grievances. The Panthers Party represented in the meeting, the former minister in Mufti government, Harsh Dev Singh, instead of highlighting the issue of discrimination against Jammu region on broader contours, aired his personal grievance over being suspended from the state assembly for the just concluded session, terming it murder of democracy. "Democracy never prevailed in Jammu and Kashmir and the state has been always under worst dictatorship, barring three years from November 2002 to November 2005 when Harsh Dev was the Cabinet Minister and Panthers Party was part of the government ".
Taking out of tableaus on the eve of Bhagwan Krishan Janamashtmi in the main streets of Srinagar city, after 18 long years and the participation in the same by some Muslim leaders, notably Shabir Ahmed Shah is no doubt a healthy development, displaying traditional communal amity and a positive proof of situation in Kashmir valley having qualitatively improved. But over emphasizing the same had hardly any justification. The problem in Kashmir has never been a Hindu-Muslim one and the Kashmiri Pandits and other Hindus were hounded out of the valley not because of their being Hindus, but because of their being Indian nationals, opposed to secession of J&K from India. If the Kashmiri Pandits and other Hindus living in the valley for almost a century had fallen in line with the secessionists over their demand and agitation for 'azadi' or J&K's accession with Pakistan, there would have perhaps been no need for their mass exodus from Kashmir. The forced exodus of some pro India Muslims also in the wake of secessionist terrorism, is a pointer in this direction. The left over about a thousand Kashmiri pandits in the valley, who did not migrate in the wake of mass exodus and put no resistance to the secessionists' game plan for secession or anti India activities, are not harmed and are leading a normal life without any fear, but remaining at the mercy of the majority community, more precisely the anti national elements.
The quashing by the J&K High Court of the appointment of the daughter of a former Congress minister from the post of Rehabr-e-Taleem at a salary of Rs 1500 per month, has brought to fore how far the politicians can stoop to benefit their own kith and kin. No wonder one day one finds the report about a politician, particularly the one belonging to the ruling dispensation managing appointment of his/her sibling as safaikaramchari, manipulating forged certificate of his/her belonging to that community
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