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| Governor Malik saved Jammu, Ladakh from disaster | | Dissolution of assembly | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 23: The Governor of Jammu & Kashmir, SP Malik, saved the situation by acting wisely and quickly and also saved the people of Jammu and Ladakh from total exclusion by dissolving the assembly on November 21. Obviously, he did it on the advice of the Narendra Modi government at the centre. Had he not dissolved the assembly and allowed the newly-floated Grand Alliance consisting of Mehbooba Mufti's PDP, Farooq Abdullah and Omar Abdullah's NC and Rahul Gandhi's Congress to form coalition government, the results would have not have been inspiring.
The immediate fallout of formation of government led by the PDP with the Congress being part of it and the NC extending support to it from outside would have been the further neglect and marginalization of the non-Muslim minorities in Jammu and Ladakh. The PDP had 26 MLAs. All belong to one particular community. The Congress has 12 and all are non-Hindu. As for the NC, it has 15 MLAs. 13 belong to the majority community and 2 to the minority community.
It would not be out of place to mention here that till June 19, 2018, all Kashmiri rulers, without any exception, exploited to the hilt the people of Jammu and Ladakh. They never considered them part and parcel of the Jammu & Kashmir society. They consistently excluded them from all walks of life. They offered them only crumbs and enriched the majority community in Kashmir and also enriched Kashmir's economy at the cost of Jammu and Ladakh. This, despite the fact that there used to be some non-Muslim ministers in the Cabinet and State Council of Ministers. Just imagine what would have happened in Jammu and Ladakh, had the Cabinet and Council of Ministers constituted by the members of the majority community alone.
The manner in which the Congress, the PDP (and the NC formed Grand Alliance and the reasons they sited for launching such an alliance vindicated late President R Venkataraman, who had asked late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi to grant Union Territory status to Ladakh, give status of statehood to Jammu and deal with Kashmir separately. His suggestion was valid then and his suggestion is valid all the more now as the Congress, the NC and PDP have all joined hands and outraged the sensitivities of the non-Muslim minorities in the state by declaring that they formed Grand Alliance to defend Article 35A and Article 370, as also to defend the state's special status.
One can only hope that Prime Minister Narendra would rise to the occasion and do what Indira Gandhi didn't do. Separation of Jammu and Ladakh from Kashmir is a national requirement and exigency of the time. Separation would help the nation in two ways. It would restrict politics of separatism to the tiny Kashmir Valley and it would empower and strengthen Jammu and Ladakh, the nation's backbone in the state. The nation can't afford in the sensitive Jammu & Kashmir state a government that is virtually of one region and one community. It's no wonder then that the people of Jammu have welcomed the dissolution of the assembly and expressed the view that elections to the assembly should held only after the separation of Jammu and Ladakh from Kashmir. |
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