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| E. Ahamed's statement is timely | | EDITORIAL | | That Jammu and Kashmir is an integral part of India is an established
fact and needs no reiteration. By the instrument of accession signed
by Maharaja Hari Singh, the constitutional and legal authority in the
State at that time and accepted by Lord Mountbatten, the then Governor
General of India, on behalf of the Indian government, on October 27
1947, the accession of J&K State to the Indian Union is final and
irrevocable and Jammu and Kashmir becomes as much part and parcel of
India as any other princely State which acceded to India. Under the
Act of Independence of India, the power was vested with the rulers of
princely States to accede to either of the two dominions, viz India
and Pakistan, the two eventually becoming republics. Normally there
should be no need to emphasis the fact of J&K being an integral part
of India. But in the background of doubts being raised from certain
quarters and attempts at challenging the constitutional status of J&K,
terming it a disputed territory and the loud talks of its future yet
to be settled, the Union Minister of State for External Affairs, E.
Ahmed has done well by categorically stating in the Rajya Sabha that
Jammu and Kashmir is an integral part of India and as such dismissing
the suggestion by Pak president Parvez Musharraf for joint control of
both parts of Jammu and Kashmir by India and Pakistan as
constitutionally and legally not tenable and acceptable. One wonders
why the government of India has taken such a long time to refute the
suggestion by Pak President about joint control, which compromises
India's constitutional status with regard to J&K. By virtue of the
whole of J&K's accession to India in 1947, with its boundaries as
existed at that time, the parts of Jammu and Kashmir, which have been
under the occupation of Pakistan, as a result of aggression by that
country, including those parts which Pakistan has gifted to China, are
the integral part of India and Pakistan's status with regard to those
areas is only of an aggressor. In the light of some main stream
parties in J&K including a coalition partner of Congress led
government in the state, PDP and the former ruling party National
Conference conveying an impression of their deviation from this
reality and established constitutional position, the statement of
Union MoS for External Affairs has been quite timely. It should serve
as warning signal to these fence sitters between the believers of J&K
being an integral part of India and the separatists and secessionists
who dispute the constitutional status of J&K and day in and day out
call for final settlement of the constitutional position of J&K, that
no non sense in the matter can be brooked. The protest by the
secessionist outfits in J&K over this reiteration of the establish
fact by Mr. E. Ahamed needs not be taken seriously, since their
position and stand of disputed status of J&K is well known. It are
only the fence sitters and neo separatists who owe an explanation
about their ambiguous statements which compromise the establish fact
of J&K's accession to India being final and irrevocable.
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