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| Dixon Plan: Moves appear afoot to divide Jammu on communal lines | | | RUSTAM
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, June 13: On June 9, a very significant political development took place. That day, Jammu witnessed the emergence of a new forum - Forum Against Dixon Plan (FADP). Four persons founded the forum. These persons belonged to the BJP, the Congress, the Panun Kashmir and Jammu State Morcha (Progressive). It was founded under the convener-ship of Bali Bhagat BJP state vice-president and former MLA from Ramban.
Talking to media persons the same day, those who founded the forum said, "A sinister process seems to have been set-into-motion to divide Jammu Province along the Chenab River on communal lines and facilitate the emergence of Greater Kashmir, comprising the Valley and Muslim majority areas of Jammu and Ladakh." They justified their apprehension by referring to the adoption of a resolution on the "Chenab Valley Autonomous Hill Council" in Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Council without any opposition from any political party. The Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly adopted this highly controversial resolution last year. They also referred to certain other "administrative measures taken by the state government in recent times" and asserted that they were all designed to facilitate implementation of the 1950 Sir Owen Dixon Plan.
They, in addition, accused "a significant section of the top echelons of Indian Political class, cutting across party lines," of "toying with the idea of a compromise with Pakistan to accommodate its sinister designs on Jammu and Kashmir." The upshot of their whole argument was that the "original Dixon Plan is being disguised in the wraps of Musharaf Formula, Kathwari Plan, Greater Autonomy or Self-rule" and that the
"National Conference and the PDP have been making regular forays into various areas of Jammu province to polarize communal opinion in favour of Greater Kashmir."
Their opposition to the Dixon Plan was based on the fact that the "entire process has a bearing on the very survival of minorities across the length and breadth of the state." "The authority of the Government of India in the state and its commitment to protect secular imperatives stands undermined, as never before since the independence of the country. The situation is even worse than the era when the British Rulers embarked upon carving out Pakistan in the Muslim majority areas of the undivided India", they, in addition, said.
They also expressed the view that "there is a large corpus of opinion in these areas which still believes that the Government of India and the political class will never indulge in such a treachery" and warned it that "it is a situation similar to when the people living in Lahore before the partition believed in the assurances of Gandhi and Nehru that partition of the country shall never become a reality". In other words, they urged this section to ponder over the situation and adopt an approach that could defeat those thinking in terms of dividing Jammu along River Chenab, setting up of Greater Kashmir and compromising the Indian position in Jammu and Kashmir by accommodating the evil designs of Pakistan in this part of the country.
They emphasized that the "holocaust that followed the country's partition is bound to replicate (here in Jammu province) given the fact that religious cleansing in Kashmir valley has not shaken the reckless Indian Political class". "In this situation, all right thinking people, particularly in Jammu Province, have a greater responsibility to stop another partition and prevent the impending holocaust", they opined.
Regarding the basic objective behind the formation of the FADP, they said, "it is an attempt at rescuing the threatened minorities and to defend the unity and integrity of the Jammu Province, cutting across all religious and political loyalties and affiliations". "The objective of FADP is neither regional nor local, but essentially national. It is to prevent the balkanization of the nation", they explained. (To be continued)
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