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| Valley leaders responsible for troubles facing Kashmiri people outside J&K | | | RUSTAM
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, May 7: PDP president and Leader of Opposition in the J&K Legislative Assembly Mehbooba Mufti is angry with all the non-Kashmiris, particularly those inhabiting areas outside the state. She is angry because she feels that the Muslims of Kashmir are "continuously harassed in different parts of the country". She wants the "Government of India to address this grave human issue" before it "erupts like a volcano".
What Mehbooba Mufti says cannot be brushed aside. There could be some incidents of harassment of Kashmiri Muslim, including students and others, here and there in different parts of the country. Such incidents should not happen in any civilized society. India is a democratic and liberal country and it belongs to all the Indians, including Kashmiri Muslims. Everyone has the right to go to any place and settle and carry on economic activities anywhere in the country.
Who is responsible for the harassment of Kashmiri Muslims outside the state? Obviously, the answer is the kind of politics the Kashmiri Muslim leaders have been indulging in since 1947. Ever since 1947, when Jammu and Kashmir acceded to India as per the law, the Kashmiri leaders have been pouring venom on everything Indian, except the hard-earned Indian rupees. They have been denouncing the Indian Constitution and they have been denouncing the Indian presence in Kashmir in downright language.
Ever since 1947, the Kashmiri leaders have been putting forth demands, which, if conceded, would at once mean separation of Kashmir from India on purely religious grounds. In other words, it would mean another partition on the basis of two-nation theory.
They have never ever allowed any non-Kashmiri to settle in Kashmir. In fact, they and their followers have hounded out of Kashmir even the Kashmiri Hindus on the ground that they acted as fifth columnists and that they refused to join the anti-India "freedom struggle". It is not a co-incidence that Kashmir, which once used to be hundred % non-Muslim, has become the sole preserve of the followers of a particular religion. This is not an exaggeration. It is a fact and could be easily verified.
It is also a fact that the Kashmiri leaders vouch for a system that entitles the people of Kashmir to exercise all rights all over India, but debars the rest of the Indians from exercising similar rights in Jammu and Kashmir in general and Kashmir province in particular. They want palatial houses in Delhi and other places in India and, in fact, they own palatial houses in different parts of India, but they do not want other Indians to settle in Kashmir. They want more representation in the Union Council of Ministers. They participate in the country's legislative processes, but they do not allow New Delhi to extend the Central laws to which they become a party. They, along with others, frame political, administrative and social policies for the country sans Jammu and Kashmir.
What the Kashmiri leaders have been doing since decades has had its impact on the psyche of the people inhabiting areas other than Jammu and Kashmir. The non-Muslims have come to believe that the Kashmiri leaders are sectarian, unaccommodating and intolerant and that they have been indulging in activities they consider fatal for the national interest; activities that negate the cardinal principles of democracy, secularism, communal amity and peaceful co-existence. One cannot but agree with them.
If Mehbooba Mufti and others of her ilk want that the Kashmiri Muslims roam about freely across the country, they have no other option but to refashion their attitude towards India and the things Indian. In other words, they have to abandon their path of separatism and join the mainstream politics.
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