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| Geelani & Co has no moral right to oppose division of J&K | | News ANALYSIS-III | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Sept 9: Seven: "To expel incompetent and corrupt officials from the state a commission of impartial officials be appointed to inquire into their character and efficiency so that the efficiency of the work be improved on the one hand and openings for the recruitment of Kashmiri Muslims to the state services created on the other and the Muslim community saved from the long-standing corruption and extortion."
Eight: "The Governor of a province being the guardian of agriculturists, it is necessary that there should be a Muslim Governor. In case the Muslims are not available for such high positions, Europeans be appointed as Provincial Governors". Similarly, "Assistant Superintendents of Police, Superintendents Customs etc. be recruited from among the Kashmiri Muslims. In case the Muslims of requisite qualifications are not available for such high posts, Muslims from outside the State or Europeans" be appointed.
Nine: "The forest contracts and contractors connected with the construction of buildings and roads as well as other contracts were hitherto granted mostly to the Hindus and non-state subjects and with the result much of the wealth of the state went out of the hands Kashmiris. This practice should be stopped forthwith. Instead, contracts be granted to the State Subjects in general and the Muslims subjects in particular."
Ten: "In order to promote the interests of the Kashmiri Muslims engaged in export trade, including agricultural products, no duty should be imposed as such duty on exports is injurious to the Muslim enterprise, as also its effect is to lay an embargo on many industries carried on solely by the Kashmiri Muslims."
And, eleven: "Since (1921) the residency (read British Resident) control over the state administration has been withdrawn, the Muslims' position in Kashmir has become all the more insecure and unsafe and the state authorities have without any hesitation trampled down the rights of the Muslims. To revive the old political set-up the Kashmiri Muslim leadership urge upon the Indian Government that the Kashmir Residency be re-invested with the same powers of control over the state that it exercise some 20 years ago and that the Residency be made responsible for promoting and protecting the Muslims' rights in every matter."
The Kashmiri Muslim leadership had put forth these demands during its meeting with Governor-General of India, Lord Reading, in 1924, at Srinagar. In fact, it requested Lord Reading to institute an inquiry commission to look into the "oppression practiced upon the Kashmiri Muslims by the Hindus." It demanded that the inquiry commission be consisted of non-officials or Europeans. They even went to the extent of calling Lord Reading a "God" sent to hear their grievances and to redress "our wrongs."
All these demands should leave no one in any doubt that the Kashmiri Muslim leadership had developed an hostile attitude towards the Dogra Maharajas and the Hindus. The language in which it couched its demands unequivocally shows that it had no love lost for the Hindus and the Muslims of Jammu province. Take, for example, its opposition to the introduction of Hindi in the state schools. The remarks of the Muslim leadership that the teaching of Hindi was bound to create a schism and bitterness among the major communities only indicate how parochial the Kashmiri Muslim leadership had turned. If Hindi could be regarded as the cause of split and bitterness why should Urdu or Persian be not put in the same heading?
It needs to be underlined that all the charges leveled by the Kashmiri Muslim leaders, including Maulvi Ahmed Ullah, Mirwaiz Klan, Mirwaiz Hamadani, Maulvi Atiq Ullah, Khan Hassan Naqshbandhi, Khan Shad-ud-Din Shawl, Syed Hassan Shah Jalali, Maulvi Sharief-ud-Din, Sayyed Said Shah Jalali and Jafar Khan, were ill-motivated. They had no substance. This was the finding of the high-powered sub-committee -- Committee appointed by the State Council, headed by the Maharaja, on October 30, 1924. The committee had been appointed at the behest of the British Government.
The situation remained the same even after 1924, with the Kashmiri Muslim leadership doing its level best to get Kashmir out of the state and have a separate Muslim-dominated dispensation. Sheikh Abdullah belonged to this school of thought. Syed Ali Shah Geelani and other Kashmiri leaders are no different. Earlier, the Kashmiri leaders worked for the Kashmir's segregation from the Jammu Kingdom and since 1947 they have not only been seeking independence from India, but also trying their level best to merge Jammu province into the intolerant Kashmir so that they could avenge what they call the humiliations they suffered at the hands of Dogra rulers and Hindus of Jammu.
The Kashmiri Muslim leadership just cannot oppose the demand in Jammu and Ladakh for their segregation from Kashmir. In fact, Geelani & Co has no moral and political right to oppose the division of the state. For while the Kashmiri leadership stands for communalism and primitive ideology, the people of Jammu and Ladakh stand for secularism, democracy, nationalism, Indian Constitution and unity and integrity of the country. The people of Jammu and Ladakh and the displaced Kashmiri Hindus have seen through the dirty game-plan of the Kashmiri Muslim leadership and, hence, the demand for the trifurcation of the state and bifurcation of the Kashmir Valley. (Concluded) |
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