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| PM Modi didn't tread Mookerjee's path during his J&K visit: BJP-watchers | | Undoing the Nehru wrongs | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Feb 6: PM Narendra Modi visited Leh, Jammu and Srinagar on February 3 and returned to Delhi the same day after laying down foundation stones of several projects. As was expected, Kashmiri leaders of all hues, including separatists and the so-called mainstream leaders, didn't appreciate what the PM did and said during his visit. They were particularly annoyed with the PM's remarks on terrorists and separatists. They in one voice opposed his views on the ongoing secessionist violence in Kashmir and said that the Kashmiris needed healing touch more than developmental projects. The separatists, the NC, the PDP and the Congress all expressed almost identical views and suggested that the BJP's Kashmir policy had further alienated Kashmiri people.
Significantly, even those J&K-watchers, who were considered pro-Narendra Modi, too have expressed views, which could be construed as criticism of the PM in a sophisticated manner. One of the respected Delhi-based J&K-watchers Sandya Jain criticized the PM in her own typical style. Reflecting on the PM's visit, Jain, who is Senior Fellow at Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi, said: "Prime Minister Narendra Modi largely stuck to his developmental agenda during his visit to Jammu, Srinagar and Leh on February 3, 2019, inaugurating projects worth Rs 44,000 crore but disappointing the faithful in Ladakh and Jammu by failing to address their core anxieties. Ladakh was expecting a grant of divisional status to redress decades of neglect but perhaps Modi has kept that for another day. His major focus was on education and healthcare, the prime concerns since 2014. He launched the University of Ladakh, a long-standing demand recently granted under President's rule and laid the foundations for two All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Jammu and Srinagar'.
Jain also expressed the view that it would be only desirable of the PM treaded the path Syama Prasad Mookerjee charted way back in 1953 in Kashmir. "Given the Kashmir-centric bias imposed on the region from 1947, Modi surely understands that much can be achieved under President's rule. Indeed, it is time to take the bull by the horns and begin by granting Indian citizenship to refugees from West Pakistan from 1947 and end the sense of betrayal which pervades the Hindu psyche in the region. Scrap the State flag, the issue for which Syama Prasad Mukherjee sacrificed his life, and begin the debate on filling the 24 Assembly seats reserved for the Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (POJK) regions with nominations from among the POJK refugees. Part III of the Constitution of India, pertaining to Fundamental Rights, should be bestowed upon citizens of Jammu & Kashmir without further ado," the Senior Fellow and a leading commentator said.
Jain also said: "Modi is surely aware that Kashmiri is an ancient classical language that could have been the official language of the State but for Aligarh Muslim University alumnus Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah imposing Urdu. Kashmiri in Sharda script should replace Urdu in educational institutions; Jammu can have Dogri and Ladakh Bhoti. Hindi and English would continue as link languages with the rest of India." |
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