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| Kashmiris can't impose their will on Jammu, Ladakh | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 28: The out-of-power and out-on-the-limb PDP leaders, including party chief and former CM, Mehbooba Mufti, and PDP's senior leader, are trying their level best to regain the ground their party lost due to its alliance with what they call rightwing BJP. Mehbooba Mufti is trying to tell the people of Kashmir and her handful of supporters in Jammu that the PDP committed a grave mistake by stitching an alliance with the BJP in 2015 and acknowledged that the PDP lost much of its credibility in the Valley. She would never commit such a mistake in the future, she is reassuring her supporters to save her party, which is being deserted by many top leaders with each passing moment.
At the same time, she is trying to raise the morale of the demoralized party workers by telling them that the party would emerge as the single-largest party in the next elections as it has a definite political agenda that fulfills the aspirations of the people of Kashmir and resolves the Kashmir issue to the satisfaction of Pakistan. Everywhere, she is holding the BJP responsible for the failure of her government, as also for not doing enough for Jammu due to the party politics within the BJP. She held the former Forest Minister Lal Singh and Health Minister Bali Bhagat responsible for the delay in the construction of AIIMS. Significantly, she is not even sparing PM Narendra Modi. Her grouse against him is that he has abandoned the path of AB Vajpayee and not talking to what she call stakeholders in Kashmir, Pakistan and Hurriyat.
On the other hand, another senior PDP leader has virtually threatened Government of India, saying that Kashmiris may abandon their secular ethos if New Delhi failed to protect the state's special status.
"There has been a radical transformation in the nature of dissent since 1947. The choice in front of the people of J&K is not between India and Pakistan but between paradise and hell. The present anti-India movement in the Valley could turn a pro-Islamic movement. People of Kashmir may opt for India, and not Pakistan in case the UN-mooted plebiscite was organized in the state. New Delhi has not kept its promises. Rather, it has broken the promises it made. If the special position of J&K is restored and different constitutional provisions like Article 370 and Article 35A protected then there is a possibility that they (people) might vote for India if the plebiscite is held," the senior PDP leader said recently.
The senior leader like Mehbooba, forgets that Kashmir is not the whole of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh state and the Kashmiris represent the general will in the state. Kashmir is a tiny part of the state. Just about 10 per cent of the state's land area. Jammu and Ladakh constitute nearly 90 per cent. Similarly, Jammu and Ladakh house a huge population, more than 50 percent - population which wants their full merger with India as they feel that their very identity and personality is under grave threat. Who doesn't know that Buddhists of Ladakh do not want to have any truck with Kashmir? Similarly, an overwhelming majority of population in Jammu, including 20 lakh Hindu-Sikh refugees from Pakistan, PoJK and Kashmir, want a regime that caters to their needs and protects them against exclusion by the majority community in Kashmir.
They would do well to remember that Jammu and Ladakh would witness explosions of portentous dimension if their aspirations were ignored by New Delhi in its desperate bid to appease the Kashmiri leadership. |
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