Early Times Report
JAMMU, June 16: Prof Hari Om's latest and last book, "24 Political Essays On Jammu and Kashmir (October 16, 2024-April 15, 2025)", today hit the stands. The book deals with major developments which unfolded in the UT of J&K between October 16, 2024, when Omar Abdullah assumed the office of CM for the second time, and April 15, 2025, when he completed six months in office. It throws light on the strategy he and his father, Farooq Abdullah, adopted to motivate PM Narendra Modi and HM Amit Shah to grant full state status to J&K so that the NC-led Government could undo what the Modi Government did on August 5, 2019 to integrate the sensitive and strategic frontier region fully into India and implement what their party promised to their constituency in Kashmir through their 2024 election manifesto. Farooq Abdullah and Omar Abdullah adopted a methodology to achieve their first objective - statehood -- no one had ever expected that they would.
In addition, the book deals with the attitude of the South and North Blocks to what the NC, which also gave the last warning to PM Modi on April 4, 2025, wanted to achieve.
Besides, it throws light on the disturbing developments which took place during the first-ever March 3-April 9, 2025 budget session of the J&K assembly and deals with the nature of problem in Kashmir, miserable plight of the people of Jammu province, the BJP's core constituency, activities of APHC chairman and cleric Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, and highly controversial and unsettling suggestions given by Ex-spy AS Dulat.
The book, in addition, - apart from reflecting on the storm in the assembly over Waqf Act and working of the NC-led government -- throws ample light on the activities and role of the BJP, the Congress, the PDP, the People's Conference, the CPIM, the Awami Ittehad Party and Kashmir-based independent MLAs in and outside the assembly between October 16, 2024 and April 15, 2025, and the revolt of Lok Sabha MP Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi against his own party CM Omar Abdullah.
As for the lasting and rational and national solution to the age-old problem of Jammu's total neglect and menace of terror in Kashmir, the book urges the Modi Government to de-link Jammu from Kashmir like it de-linked Ladakh from the Valley on August 5, 2019 and convert Kashmir into a Chandigarh-like UT.
The book is available with Amazon and at Sahitya Sangam, Kachi Chowni, Jammu. |
