Early Times Report
JAMMU, Feb 22: The Pulwama murder of 47 CRPF jawans has triggered a fierce debate with the strategic affairs experts opining that attempts are being made to cause fifth communal partition of India and break it into smithereens.
"The situation in medieval times and during the British period was not that serious as it has been now. The break-India forces within and outside have joined hands and their objective is to cause fifth communal partition of India. This eventuality has to be averted at any cost," they have opined.
They have contested the view that India witnessed only one communal partition and said that "India has already witnessed four divisions on the basis of religion.
"India witnessed the first communal partition in 1905, when Bengal was divided into West Bengal and East Bengal to meet the separatist urges of a particular community. The second communal partition took place in 1947, when UK-Jinnah-Gandhi-Nahru allowed creation of Pakistan on the basis of two-nation doctrine. Pakistan was established exclusively for one particular community.
India witnessed the third communal partition in 1948, when the Nehru led Congress Government at the Centre allowed Pakistan to retain control over the J&K's territories in Jammu and Ladakh. Pakistan invaded J&K in October 1947 and occupied 33 per cent of J&K's territories.
The Indian Army could have retrieved all these occupied areas of the Jammu province and Ladakh (Mirpur, Poonch, Pulandri, Bagh, Gilgit, Baltistan, Hunza, Nagar, Yasin, Iskoman, Iskardu, Muzaffarabad and so on), had the Nehru Government not enforced unilateral ceasefire on December 31, 1948 to please Sheikh Abdullah of Kashmir. What happened in Kashmir in January 1990 could also be considered as the India's fourth communal partition. That year, the votaries of two-nation expelled from Kashmir the miniscule minority of Kashmiri Hindus (original inhabitants), Dogras and Punjabis and converted Kashmir into a one-community region for all practical purposes," strategic affairs experts have claimed.
They said that those demanding autonomy or self-rule or a review of the Central laws applied to J&K after August 9, 1953 represent those who have been working for the fifth partition of the country and they need to be checked. Obviously, they referred to Farooq Abdullah, Omar Abdullah, Mehbooba Mufti and ilk. |
