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| Radha again adopts a lop-sided approach, sings Kashmir song | | 'Paradise at War' | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Nov 4: Former interlocutor Radha Kumar on Saturday again adopted a lop-sided and Kashmir-centric approach without realizing that Kashmir is a tiny part of the state and that the state consists of three historically, culturally, politically, ethnically distinct regions - Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh. Ladakh is the largest region of the state. Jammu is the second largest. And Kashmir constitutes only about 10 per cement of the state's land area.
Radha completely overlooked the fact that Jammu and Ladakh had been suffering since 1947, when Nehru transferred political power from Jammu to Srinagar using dubious means. She also overlooked the fact that it was Kashmir that had been ruling the roost since 1947 with the office of CM being made the sole preserve of Kashmir and of a particular community. But more than that, Radha Kumar overlooked the fact that the people of Jammu and Ladakh constitute more than half of the state's population and they also had their own aspirations, needs, urges and compulsions.
Actually, Radha Kumar came out with a new book on Kashmir, titled Paradise at war - a political history of Kashmir'. She has, among other things, written that she "has never seen such a government in her life which is so impervious to the concerns of Kashmiris". "It feels that you deliberately want to drive this place away or you are callous to the point that you don't care…We won't find any Kashmiri willing to make peace in the next five years and I am being optimistic," she has also said.
Her solution was: New Delhi should engage with Kashmiri people and concede what they demand. Who in the world does not know that there is hardly any leader in Kashmir who endorses the Indian Constitution? All in the world know that the Kashmiri leaders, barring those representing the 7 lakh internally-displaced Kashmiri Hindus, vouch for demands ranging from merger with Pakistan to independence to autonomy to self-rule to India-Pakistan joint control. No government in India could afford to concede any of these demands as meeting any of these demands would mean creating similar situation in other parts of the country where fissiparous activities are already going on. Take, for example, Punjab. It was none other than the Army chief, General Bipin Rawat, who on Saturday warned that attempts are being made to revive separatist politics in Punjab.
It needs to be noted that in 2010 as interlocutor she had vouched for Azadi - a demand rejected outright by the Vajpayee government. It is extremely doubtful if the Narendra Modi Government would grant any political concession to the already over-empowered Kashmiri leaders. |
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