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| Jammu has not given mandate to PM & CM to decide its fate | | STARK REALITY | | RUSTAM
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Aug 15: Neither the Prime Minister nor the J&K Chief Minister has been given the mandate by the people of Jammu province to decide their political fate. They were an integral part of India and the Indian civilization in the past, today, and they shall remain so for all the times to come, come what may. That was their resolve in the past and that is their watchword and battle cry even today. There is no dilution in their stand on and commitment to India. They believe in the unity and integrity of India and they are the ardent believers in the concept that India is not divisible. Article one of the Indian Constitution also says so. It doesn't provide for secession of any part of India on any pretext and on any ground whatever.
The people of Jammu also believe that the policy of the political establishment in Delhi of retaining Kashmir within India by pandering to the Kashmiri Muslims' communalism or by giving concessions to communalism in Kashmir will prove detrimental to the paramount sovereign interests and interests of the minorities in the state and lead to the Balkanization of India. They are of the view that New Delhi has already wasted much of its precious time by flirting with the protagonists of autonomy and self-rule in Kashmir, that it must tell the communalists and separatists in Kashmir that their politics would only lead to more bloodshed and anarchy in the Valley and that New Delhi will never ever conclude a truce over J&K with the Kashmiri leaders over the heads of the nationalist constituency in the state.
True that the Prime Minister today declared from the ramparts of the New Delhi's Red Fort that "J&K is an integral part of India." True that he commended the role of the security forces in Kashmir. Also true that he asked the unruly mobs to eschew the path of violence. But this was just not enough. He should have candidly told the regressive forces in the Valley to behave or face dire consequences; he should plainly told them that his government could not allow the secessionist and communal forces in Kashmir to raise their ugly heads.
The Prime Minister's suggestion that the Government of India "is willing to talk to everyone in Kashmir provided they abjure violence" could have been avoided. By making such a statement on the Independence Day, the Prime Minister has created more confusion among the people of the country about the New Delhi's policy towards Kashmir and Kashmiri separatists. So much so, his statement has created an impression in Jammu and among the non-Muslim minorities in the state that his government may compromise the Indian position in J&K by giving concessions to the politics of terrorism, separatism and communalism, thus sealing the fate of the nationalist constituency in the state and enabling Pakistan and Kashmiri separatists achieve what they have been seeking to achieve.
What has caused considerable alarm here in Jammu and among the pro-India segments of the society in Kashmir was that part of the Prime Minister's address to the nation that dealt with the month of Ramzan. He said: "I congratulate the Muslims of India, Muslims of Kashmir and Muslims Pakistan on this occasion." This statement did create an impression that the Prime Minister considers the Muslims of Kashmir a race apart, and not part and parcel of the larger Indian society.
New Delhi had bungled in 1949, when it granted a special status to J&K at the behest of the Kashmiri Muslim leadership on the ground of religion or on the ground that the Kashmiri Muslims were a race apart. This was one of the gravest blunders that New Delhi committed. The grant of a special status to J&K at the behest of the Valley-based and essentially communal organization had simply emboldened the separatists and champions of the two-nation theory to pursue their line with greater zeal and subvert the Indian polity. After 1949, New Delhi committed more blunders - all further widened the already rather wide gulf between Kashmir and New Delhi, with the separatists and communalists pushing forward their regressive agenda step-by-step. Take, for example, the 1975 accord.
So much so, New Delhi allowed the Kashmiri ruling elite to take full advantage of its official position to wreck the polity from within. PDP leader and Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed did so and went scot-free. New Delhi didn't question him when he openly declared that elections and formation of government in J&K and Kashmir solution were two different things. He consistently spoke the language of Kashmiri separatists, but New Delhi's response was mute. New Delhi didn't take cognizance of the activities of Chief Minister Mufti even when he sought to communalize the state polity by interfering in the religious affairs of the Hindus. Take, for example, his attitude towards the duration of the Amarnath Yatra and his stand on the small piece of land at Baltal that had been legally transferred temporarily to the Shrine Board. New Delhi continued to flirt and hobnob with the Mufti even after 2005, when the PDP leadership openly revolted against India by suggesting dual sovereignty and dual currency as the solution to the so-called Kashmir problem.
And, New Delhi behaved irresponsibly much to the chagrin of Jammu, Ladakh and the nationalist and persecuted minorities in the state, including the displaced Kashmiri Hindus. (To be continued) |
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