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Identity Under Threat
3/6/2022 11:46:45 PM
Off late Jammu natives have started feeling insecure. They have started fearing that their Dogra identity is under threat.
The arbitrary decisions taken by the present J&K regime have led to locals not getting many opportunities in any sector. It appears that the helmsmen want to hand over the entire business set up of Jammu people to the outsiders and want to make them dependent on the people from other states. On the other hand unemployed youth every now and then hit the streets to seek employment. They are waiting for the jobs that were promised to them when J&K’s special status was abrogated two years ago.
J&K has a unique historical background and was known as a Dogra State, but after August 5, 2019, the situation has changed. People of Jammu had welcomed the Centre’s move to end the special status. They were hopeful that the discrimination which they faced for the 70-years would end as the Kashmir centric leaders who ruled J&K after 1947 didn’t pay much attention towards Jammu region. But for the people of Jammu nothing has changed during the last two years. The present regime being run by the bureaucrats seems more focused on Kashmir rather than on Jammu. Natives of Dogra land are not even taken into confidence before taking big decisions that have direct impact on the Jammu region. The scrapping of a 150-year old Darbar Move practice hit Jammu’s economy hard. Despite every section of the society expressing its resentment against the decision, the helmsmen just ignored the reactions of the common people and went ahead with doing away the practice, which was started by late Maharaja to keep the people of both the regions i.e. Jammu and Kashmir connected. Voices to protect Dogra identity in Jammu region are becoming shriller. People are coming together to fight the onslaught on their culture and heritage. They are demanding that heritage sites that are the symbols of Dogra land should be preserved. They are asking for a fixed quota in jobs for local youth. The government preferring big business houses over local businessmen too has triggered resentment. They are demanding assembly elections so that they could elect their representatives and hold them accountable. At present no one is listening to them and they have been to fend on their own.
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