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| 'We don't want involvement of Jammu, Ladakh in dialogue process': Separatists | | Living in a fool's paradise | |
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Oct 27: Separatists in Kashmir and leadership of parties like Congress, NC and PDP are, it appears, living in a fool's paradise. They are urging New Delhi to ignore Jammu and Ladakh and initiate "a dialogue process with Kashmiri leaders to end the 71-year-old Kashmir impasse and restore peace in the region". Their argument is that there is no problem in Jammu and Ladakh or there is no unrest in Jammu and Ladakh and that the problem is here in Kashmir.
This parochial and lop-sided or patently Kashmir-centric approach of Kashmiri leaders of all shades of opinion constitutes what the trouble-shooters and Jammu & Kashmir-watchers term as a "big problem".
"There is another big problem that needs to be understood in its entirety - Kashmiris don't want to involve any other region or the people in dialogue with the standard reply, 'the problem is here (in Kashmir), why are you looking for a solution of our problem by involving Jammu and Ladakh," keen Kashmir-watchers say. They add that "their penchant for exclusiveness" creates a serious problem in the state as its two largest regions - Jammu and Ladakh - stand for ethos which are totally different from Kashmir's.
People of Jammu and Ladakh, barring a few disgruntled elements here and there in Jammu province, stand for national unity and against the demands in Kashmir ranging from merger with Pakistan to independence from both India and Pakistan to greater autonomy to self-rule to India-Pakistan joint control, and joint rule. There should be no doubt about it.
Things in Jammu and Ladakh have, in addition, changed and changed substantially. People in these two provinces are asserting and calling the problem by its name. They are saying and saying it with full might that "the problem in Kashmir is neither political nor economic". "It's simply religious problem in Kashmir," they are saying, adding that "there cannot and must not be any place in the Indian scheme of things for a religious dispensation under any pretext whatsoever".
Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh State has to be treated at par with other states of the Union if it is to enjoy rights available under the Indian Constitution, trouble-shooters and many objective Kashmir-watchers have said in the past and continue to say it today as well. It is for the Kashmiri leaders to recognize the ground realities in the state's three distinct regions if they really wish a solution to the issues afflicting the state. Jammu and Ladakh are two vital factors in the state and they are not Kashmir's colonies. Once the Kashmiri leaders realize this, things would become easy for New Delhi to tackle. The ball is in their court. As for Jammu and Ladakh, they are very clear: No truck with separatists and only solution that integrates the state fully into India. |
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