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STARK REALITY -- I
RUSTAM
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Feb 24: The New Delhi-appointed interlocutors – Dileep Padgaonkar, Radha Kumar and M M Ansari --- would submit what they called their “initial” report to the Union Government within the next two weeks. If one goes by what they told reporters on Wednesday in Jammu before leaving for Kashmir, then it can be said without any hesitation that the report would focus primarily on what the National Conference (NC), the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), the People’s League (PL) and the Awami National Conference (ANC) have been advocating for years and what chairman of the Working Group on Centre-State Relations Justice Sageer Ahmad had recommended.
The NC stands for greater autonomy, bordering on virtual sovereignty. It wants a limited accession of the state with India and it also wants a system of governance as it existed in the state before August 1953: Local oligarchy; absolute legislative, executive and judicial powers; committed Sadar-e-Riyasat; committed High Court; permit system; gagged press; and what not. In other words, it wants to turn the needles of the clock by 58 years and hand down to the people a system of government under which the ruling elite would exercise unbridled powers, the people would have no say whatever in the government, regressive and communal forces in Kashmir would reign supreme, Jammu and Ladakh would be no more than the Kashmir’s colonies and New Delhi would have little or no say in the state even if there is a complete breakdown of the constitutional machinery and there is a potential threat to the internal and external security of India. To be more precise, the NC stands for a step step short of total independence. The NC has consistently said that grant of autonomy alone could end the “alienation” of the people of Kashmir (read people belonging to one particular religious sect). Justice Sageer Ahmad, who is now no more, has also suggested almost the same. He has said in his report that the autonomy demand could be considered.
The PDP wants self-rule and its self-rule not only means greater autonomy but also means demilitarization of the state, withdrawal of all the anti-terror laws from the state, economic freedom, porous and irrelevant borders/Line of Control, India-Pakistan joint control over the state, India-Pakistan joint management, supra-state measures or shared sovereignty, say of China in the state, official patronage to and rehabilitation in Kashmir of the Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied-Jammu and Kashmir-based dreaded extremists and militants of Kashmir origin, healing touch (read concessions to murderers, separatists and communalists) and what not. In other words, the self-rule, unlike autonomy, not only means a step short of autonomy but it also means the direct involvement of Pakistan in the Indian Jammu and Kashmir. The PDP leadership is of the considered view that the acceptance of what it demands alone could end the “psychological pain” of the people of Kashmir (read people belonging to a particular religious sect). And, don’t forget, the Muslim League, which had stood and fought for the two-nation theory between 1906 and 1947 and succeeded in bringing about partition of India on religious lines and creating an Islamic Republic of Pakistan in 1947, had also consistently talked about the “psychological” factor. Its view was that “we are Muslims, we believe that we are a nation, that the two nations could live and work together and, hence, the demand for Pakistan.”
The demands put forth by the ANC are no different. It wants end of the Indian presence in the state and wants India to address the Pakistani concerns in the state. It, like the NC and the PDP, also believes that Jammu and Kashmir is a disputed territory whose political status has yet to be determined and that it could not be done without bringing Pakistan on board and without recognizing Islamabad as one of the principal stakeholders. The ANC, like the NC and the PDP, also believes in the psychological factor but without saying it. The fact of the matter is that it, like the NC and the PDP, is also an ardent believer in the concept of two-nation/three-nation and wants a dispensation outside India because it, like all the Kashmir-based outfits, is convinced that separation of the state from India and complete stranglehold of Kashmir over Jammu and Ladakh, plus the Pakistani direct involvement in the state, alone could satisfy the urges of the people of Kashmir (read people belonging to a one particular religious sect). (To be concluded) |
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