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| “Greater autonomy suicidal for J&K”: JSM | | Ridicules CM’s statement; division of state viable solution to Kashmir imbroglio | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 18- Commenting on the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah’s address at Amity University Nodia that restoring autonomy to Jammu and Kashmir would help state to address all the genuine issues and aspirations of the people of all the three regions, the Jammu State Morcha has said that the autonomy being proposed by the NC will have serious implications for the security of the state.
In a joint statement issued here today Morcha President Virender Gupta and senior vice president HB Khajuria have questioned as to how the autonomy can save our borders and resolve the conflicts within the State among different regions and with Pakistan. “In fact it is misrule of the then state governments that allowed the secessionist Pak supported elements to flourish and get strengthened. The Government machinery and politicians ruling the state also patronized such elements’, they added. The autonomy granted under Article 370 of the Indian Constitution gave an opportunity to the elements to groom without any check from the centre, they said and alleged that the Article 370 was misused by the Kashmiri ruling clique by creating political and administrative hegemony on the people of other regions thus depriving them of justice, development and their genuine political rights.
‘The state is facing apparent regional and communal divide among its people and giving more autonomy and even continuing with the present political structure that provide supremacy of the Valley on the other regions and Valley treating them as its colonies shall disintegrate the state and collapse the present political arrangement’, the statement said. It is a paradox that the Kashmiri ruling clique that cannot ensure justice to other regions and provide reasonable autonomy to them to manage their own affairs and that has even made Panchayat system as a defunct are asking for greater autonomy and more powers.
The economy and development of the state has no link with the autonomy as being proposed by the National Conference and PDP. Jammu & Kashmir State has to depend on the Centre for almost all its development plans and even for the payment of salaries to its employees. Asking for a complete financial and economy autonomy carries no sense and would be disastrous of the state and its people the statement pointed out.
JSM is of the firm opinion that not the greater autonomy, but the division of the state into four separate political units with granting separate statehood to Kashmir region, Jammu region, giving Union Territory status to Ladakh region and providing centrally administered homeland to Kashmiri Pandits within the Valley is the only viable solution to resolve the present crisis and meet the aspirations of all the regions and people of the state, the statement said.
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