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| Mr Soz, please don't demonise Patel | | Nehru mishandled J&K | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, June 30: Congress leader and an ardent believer in the concept of greater autonomy for J&K Saif-ud-Din Soz has courted a controversy by waking a false statement that Sardar Patel, The Iron Man of India, wanted to hand over J&K to Pakistan.
Last week, Soz had supported former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's assessment that "Kashmiris will prefer to be independent if they are given a chance to exercise their free will. He had also asserted that Sardar Patel wanted to hand over J&K to Pakistan.
Soz's accusation against Sardar Patel is ill-founded. The fact is that it was Sardar Patel who very deftly and swiftly handled the Princely States as Home Minister and secured their merger with India with little or no difficulty. He told the world what statecraft meant and how the States are formed. Believe it or not, but it is a fact that Jawaharlal Nehru did not allow Sardar Patel to handle Jammu & Kashmir. In fact, he went beyond the Constitutional confines to hit the nation below the belt. He suddenly detached the solitary State of Jammu & Kashmir from the State Department (read Union Home Ministry) and attached it to his own Foreign Ministry as if this Princely State was an alien country. He abused the Constitutional law on the subject to pander to communal forces in Kashmir and enable the just-created Pakistan to not only consolidate its aggression in Jammu & Kashmir territories, including the so-called Azad Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan region, by enforcing strict ceasefire but also by taking the case of Jammu & Kashmir to what Sardar Patel called 'Insecurity Council' to hold out a commitment at the international forum that India would quit Jammu & Kashmir in case its people voted against the October 26, 1947 decision of Maharaja Hari Singh on the State's accession.
It is important to note that Jammu & Kashmir, like all other Princely States, was not part of the partition plan and the princes of these States alone had the right to decide the political future of their respective States. Nehru declared ceasefire to help Pakistan and anti-India and patently communal Sheikh Abdullah at a time when the Indian forces had the Pakistani raiders on the run. These and several other similar steps which Jawaharlal Nehru took before his death in 1964 created mess in Kashmir and the nation has been paying through its nose ever since then. Significantly, all the Congress Prime Ministers, including Manmohan Singh, but barring Lal Bahadur Shastri and PV Narasimha Rao, did all that they could to implement the highly atrocious anti-state Jawaharlal Nehru doctrine. |
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