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| Issue of J&K Accession: And now it's S M Krishna's turn | | | RUSTAM
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Oct 17: As if what the desperate, frustrated, failed and thoroughly, isolated Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said on the floor of the assembly on October 6 in regard to the otherwise settled issue of accession of J&K to the Indian Union was not enough to outrage the Indian public opinion, the Indian Foreign Minister, S. M. Krishna, has also jumped on to the Chief Minister's separatist bandwagon to spoil the Indian pitch in the state, which is legitimately Indian and which acceded to the Indian Dominion on October 26, 1947 in terms of the constitutional law on the subject. Ever since Prime Minister Manmohan Singh handed over the crucial foreign portfolio to Krishna, who is not well-versed in foreign policy, the latter has been conducting himself in an irresponsible manner. During the past about 18 months, Krishna has brought shame to India on a number of occasions and he is still there in the South Block.
Krishna allowed his Pakistani counterpart Shah Mahmood Qureshi to abuse and ridicule India in his presence at Islamabad only recently. In his very presence, Qureshi abused Union Home Secretary G K Pillai by equating him with those who had masterminded the 26/11 Mumbai terrorist attacks. Krishna didn't take on the uncouth, aggressive and insulting Qureshi. He allowed him to castigate and ridicule India and stuck to his aggressive stand on J&K. And, back home, Krishna lambasted Pillai saying that his on-the-eve-of-India-Pakistan-foreign ministers-level talks-statement regarding the Pakistani involvement in the Mumbai terrorist attacks was uncalled for. In other words, Krishna held Pillai responsible for the failure of the Islamabad talks. What Krishna did had never ever happened in the country, post-1947. He brought disgrace to India and went scot-free. Qureshi had not abused Pillai. He had abused the Indian nation. The Prime Minister should have sacked him for his act of irresponsibility, but he didn't, may be because certain powerful elements in the establishment, who work on behalf of the United States and other anti-India nations, didn't want the irresponsible Krishna to be shown the door. Their job is not over. It would be over when Pakistan grabs J&K or when J&K becomes independent.
It appears Krishna was not content with what he did in Islamabad and New Delhi only recently to damage India and harm the paramount sovereign interests in J&K. That's the reason he decided to take another controversial plunge in order to help out the beleaguered Omar Abdullah, who is not being taken seriously by anyone in the state and the country; who, in fact, is being dubbed even by highly sophisticated commentators like M. L. Kotru as a "separatist."
Krishna, who doesn't know anything about J&K, who is blissfully ignorant of the circumstances under which the princely states acceded to the Indian Dominion and who doesn't know that the Maharaja of J&K signed the same Instrument of Accession as other 560-odd princes signed in and after August 1947, made an unsettling statement to the fact that there was nothing wrong with the Omar Abdullah's Assembly statement on accession and merger and that Mysore and J&K were identical cases. He said both Mysore and J&K acceded to India under an "agreement."
The Chief Minister of J&K had said the same on October 6. Both S M Krishna and Omar Abdullah have talked of the so-called agreement nobody, except them, is ware of. Which agreement they are talking about? Why don't they make these so-called agreements public? Why don't they clinch the controversy by making the people see for themselves those so-called agreements under which J&K acceded to the Indian Dominion and Mysore acceded to India or the small princely state of Mysore merged with Karnataka, part of British India?
The fact is that there exist no such agreements. It's all figment of imagination. It's a desperate move to unsettle the settled issues. Why to blame Omar Abdullah and S. M. Krishna? The powers-that-be in New Delhi have all along behaved in an irresponsible manner as far as J&K is concerned. Maharaja Hari Singh, as for example, sent his Prime Minister Mehr Chand Mahajan to the Prime Minister with an accession offer. The Indian Prime Minister refused to accept the offer. Let me quote verbatim what Prime Minister Mehr Chand Mahajan wrote in this regard in his autobiography, Looking back.
He wrote: After reaching Delhi, "I immediately drove to the Prime Minister's House on York Road. The Prime Minister and Sardar Patel both were there and were apprised of the situation that had arisen (due to the Pakistani aggression on Kashmir). In view of the advance of the raiders towards the town of Baramulla and Srinagar, I requested immediate military aid. I said somewhat emphatically that the town of Srinagar must be save at any cost from loot and destruction. During the talks, the Prime Minister said that even if the town was taken by the tribesmen, India was strong enough to re-take it. Its recapture, however, could not have undone the damage that would have resulted. I, therefore, firmly but respectfully insisted on the acceptance of my request for immediate military aid. The Prime Minister observed that it was not easy on the spur of the moment to send troops as such an operation required considerable preparation and arrangement, and troops could not be moved without due deliberation merely on my demand. I was, however, adamant in my submission; the Prime Minister also was sticking to his own view. As a last resort I said, "Give us the military force we need. Take the accession and give whatever power you desire to give to the popular party (read National Conference). The army must fly to save Srinagar this evening (read October 26) or else I will go to Lahore and negotiate terms with Mr Jinnah." (To be continued)
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