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| Farooq attacks protagonists of J&K reorganization | | Secularism, NC-style | | Early Times Report
jammu, Sept 27: NC president and former J&K CM and Union Minister Farooq Abdullah has denounced those who have demanding reorganization of Jammu & Kashmir State on regional basis on the ground that the existing politico-administrative and constitutional set-up is Kashmir-centric and that if the people of Jammu and Ladakh are to obtain their due share in the polity and lead a dignified and secure life, the state has to be reorganized to end the 71-year-old Kashmiri hegemony over the state's polity, economy and social institutions of the state.
The NC president has said that the NC stands for unity, integrity and special status of Jammu and Kashmir and will continue to strive to defend its secular character. "The National Conference will continue to work in this direction and vehemently defeat the nefarious designs of the forces who are hell-bent on weakening the secular credentials of the State," Farooq Abdullah has said.
Farooq Abdullah and his NC completely overlooked the fact that secularism died in the state the day Kashmiri Hindus, besides Dogras, Punjabis and many Sikh families, migrated to Jammu in 1990 to escape their physical liquidation and save their honour, dignity, culture and faith. Most of the over 4 lakh internally-displaced persons from Kashmir have been living in refugee camps since then and struggling to go back to their original homes subject to the condition that they were settled in a particular area in Kashmir invested with Union Territory status. Farooq Abdullah also conveniently overlooked the fact that his own NC opposed tooth and nail the idea of setting up separate enclaves for the internally-displaced Kashmiri Hindus in the Valley.
It is Jammu which can be described as an oasis of peace and communal harmony. It's Jammu which has been housing almost two million non-Muslim refugees since decades. Farooq Abdullah talks of secularism and condemns those who vouch for the J&K's reorganization but forgets that his father, Late Sheikh Abdullah, had not allowed even one Hindu or one Sikh from what is now called PoJK to settle in Kashmir.
Farooq Abdullah and his NC's whole concept of secularism is flawed. The NC can't chant secularism when it demands autonomy from India and tramples upon the rights of the minorities in the state on daily basis by opposing minority rights to the minority communities in the state, including Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, Jains and Christians.
The point is that the NC is Kashmir-based, Kashmir-centric and votary of limited accession of J&K to India. The demand in Jammu and Ladakh for the state's reorganization has to be viewed in this context. |
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