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| K-leadership out to destroy Kashmir, create more bitterness between regions | | Competitive Secessionism | |
MINCING NO WORDS
NEHA
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Feb 15: It’s competitive secessionism and nothing else. It would destroy Kashmir and create more bitterness between the regions of the state. It would strengthen the otherwise defeated separatists and erode the support-base of those in Kashmir who masquerade as mainstream leaders and are in the government and opposition. These “mainstream” leaders should have denounced extremism and the cult of violence in Kashmir and should have talked of democratic and economic issues that have a direct bearing not only on the people of Kashmir but also Jammu and Ladakh. But they didn’t do so. Instead, they indulged in competitive secessionism (one may call it soft secessionism) and stressed the need for a solution that satisfies the communal urges of a section of Kashmiri leadership.
This is the message from New Delhi’s two-day (Feb 13-14) meet on Jammu and Kashmir as well as Indo-Pak relations, in which, among others, a number of Pakistanis and Kashmiri leaders also participated. There was hardly any person in the conference to represent the aspirations, needs and compulsions of the people of Jammu and Ladakh. There was hardly any displaced Kashmiri Hindu in the conference to narrate the woeful tale of the displaced community, which has been leading a wretched life outside Kashmir since early 1990. If at all there was one, he was not a displaced Kashmiri Hindu; he was a mercenary who wants to mint easy money by misrepresenting facts and joining hands with those in Kashmir demanding self-rule, autonomy, or even independence. Similarly, if at all there was any person belonging to Jammu in the said conference, he was no less than a mercenary. And, remember, Jammu has a few mercenaries and most of them are non-Dogras.
Reports about what transpired in the essentially pro-separatist and anti-India conference, which have emanated from New Delhi, clearly suggest that those from Kashmir who took part in it made it loud and clear that they hate the Indian Constitution and Indian political system and that they would not accept anything short of segregation of the state from the Indian constitutional organization of India. Every Kashmiri leader who spoke in the conference again and again and again talked about the so-called Kashmiri alienation and sought to create an impression that the acceptance of their demands ranging from greater autonomy to self-rule to freedom would not only satisfy the urges of the “alienated” Kashmiri Muslims but would also meet the aspirations and needs of the people of Jammu and Ladakh.
Every Kashmiri leader who spoke in the controversial conference, held under the very nose of the Indian authorities, talked about the “alienation” of Kashmiri Muslims and, at the same time, advocated solutions which should also be forced down the throat of the unwilling people of Jammu and Ladakh. And, everyone from Kashmir who spoke in the conference accused New Delhi of betraying Kashmir and not fulfilling the “commitments” made by it from time to time and of bringing the state under the purview of various Central laws and institutions using unfair means. None of them stated that all the Centrals and institutions, which have been introduced in the state, have been introduced strictly as per the procedure laid down by Article 370 and that there is not a single Central law that has been imposed on the state against the state’s will or without the “concurrence” of the state government. They suppressed the truth and preached falsehood to hoodwink and mislead everyone in New Delhi.
In fact, every Kashmiri leader who spoke in the conference only tried to compete with each other to demonstrate his/her identification with those who have been blooding and convulsing the state’s political scene since decades. They completely forgot that what they were speaking had the potential of further aggravating the political scene of Jammu as well as the political scene of Ladakh. They took Jammu, Ladakh and displaced Kashmiri Hindus for a ride and spoke on behalf of the entire population as if they had the mandate to represent the general will.
This approach would not do. It would only destroy Kashmir and furher embitter the already rather bitter relations between Jammu and Kashmir and between the latter and Ladakh. It would only rub salt on the wounds of the displaced Kashmiri Hindus.
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