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| Taunting and insulting Jammu would prove very costly | | News ANALYSIS | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Sept 15: It appears Kashmiri leaders have forgotten Jammu of 2008. They have again started taunting and insulting the people of Jammu province by dismissing them with contempt and making outrageous statements. How else should one interpret what People's Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti told leading news channel Times Now while participating in a debate on Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday? She told Arnab Goswami that "she doesn't know what the people of Jammu aspire for" and that "as far as Kashmir is concerned, removal of Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) or its partial withdrawal would not help restore peace in the Valley; the people of Kashmir want resolution of Kashmir problem."
Mehbooba Mufti, who along with other Kashmiri leaders are hated the most by the people of Jammu for their perverted views and contempt for India and the Indian Constitution, has only vindicated the stand of those in Jammu who have been seeking independence from Kashmir. They are saying they cannot co-exist with their Kashmiri counterparts because they, unlike them, belong to a different philosophy and because they are religiously committed to that school of thought that integrates them fully into India and empowers them to shape and control fully their political and economic future within India.
Mehbooba Mufti, who along with National Conference leader Farooq Abdullah, had to hide in the Jammu Airport's VIP lounge for hours together to escape the wrath of the people of Jammu in 2008 and were taken by the police to the Jammu Raj Bhawan amid very tight security, is not the only Kashmir-based irresponsible and biased leader who has contempt for the people of Jammu province and who, at the same time, wants to impose the Kashmir's separatist will on the people of Jammu province. All Kashmir-based leaders, without any exception, belong to the same primitive and exclusivist school of thought that hates the people of Jammu province because they ruled over them during the ancient, medieval and modern times and want to force down their patriotic throats the Kashmir's sectarian and intolerant will. They want independence, Pakistan, greater autonomy, self-rule and "Nizam-e-Mustafa" and they want the people of Jammu province to endorse what they have been striving to extract from New Delhi. How unreasonable the Kashmiri leaders have turned? They care for the so-called special psyche of Kashmiri people, other than the Kashmiri Hindus and Kashmiri Sikhs, and they show utter disrespect to the politico-nationalist psyche of the people of Jammu province.
Kashmiri leaders and their cohorts and supporters in Delhi and in certain media houses have consistently sought to ignore the people of Jammu province and convey an impression that meeting the separatist and communal urges of the Kashmiri Muslim leadership would be the same as fulfilling the aspirations of the people of Jammu province. They have been very conveniently ignoring the fact that the people of Jammu province are a very important part of the problem and that no solution to the so-called Kashmir problem is possible unless their problem is resolved taking into consideration their aspirations, needs and compulsions. Resolution of the Jammu problem is imperative if the Kashmir issue is to be resolved. The alienated Jammu needs to be conciliated first. The hurt sentiments of the marginalized and discriminated against people of Jammu province need to be assuaged first. They, like the displaced Kashmiri Hindus, are the real victims. It is they and they alone whose human rights have been ruthlessly violated by the powers-that-be in the state and at New Delhi.
Former President of India R Venkataraman was not a fool when he told Prime Minister Indira Gandhi that Ladakh needed to be given the status of Union Territory, Jammu the status of statehood and Kashmir be dealt with separately. He knew it full well that Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh were the three distinct regions of the state and each region had its own aspirations. His upshot was: Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh could not live together. Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao also knew all this. His only problem was the timing. He was of the view that time was not opportune for dividing the state. Even former Union Home Minister and CPI General Secretary Inderjit Gupta had once publicly said that "trifurcation of the state could be one of the solutions to the Kashmir problem", that "Kashmir doesn't mean Jammu and Kashmir, and that "if there are Sunni Muslims in Kashmir, there are also Dogras, Buddhists, Shiite Muslims, Gujjars, Paharis and so on in the state who also have their own aspirations." Remember, Inderjit Gupta made these remarks when he was the Union Home Minister and his remarks had generated a lot of heat in the Parliament, with the anti-Jammu elements disapproving of his otherwise very impartial and objective remarks.
Mehbooba Mufti and others of her ilk, including Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, must not taunt and abuse the people of Jammu province by making statements like the one she made on Tuesday. She should talk about herself and Kashmir. The people of Jammu province, like the people of the trans-Himalayan Ladakh and displaced Kashmiri Hindus know what they want and what they aspire for. She and others of her ilk should forget that they would be able to impose their regressive ideology on the nationalist constituency in the state. One thing is clear: The state has to be trifurcated. In fact, this is the only option available. |
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