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| Reorganization The Way Forward | | Satisfying diverse political aspirations in J&K | | NEHA
ET REPORT
JAMMU, Feb 27: Talking to reporters in Srinagar yesterday, chief interlocutor Dileep Padgaonkar disclosed that "diverse political aspirations would be included in the roadmap," which would be presented to the Union Home Ministry next month. He also stated "no mainstream party or any other group could claim to be speaking alone on behalf of people of the state."
Whether or not the interlocutors would do what they promised to do would become clear in the next few days. However, what he stated did indicate some realization on their part that Jammu and Kashmir is a very difficult and sensitive state and that it is not possible to take on board each and everyone in the state. However, to say this is not to suggest that they have eschewed completely the views they had been holding even before their appointment as interlocutors or they expressed in the state from time to time after their appointment on October 13 last year. One has to keep one's fingers crossed and hope and pray that these interlocutors would not suggest any measure that could undermine the Indian sovereignty in the state and promote further the politics of separatism and communalism.
Anyway, right now, the issue under reference is the statement of Padgaonkar that their roadmap would include the diverse political aspirations. This is just not possible. They cannot suggest a formula that is acceptable to all social segments in the state and all the three regions. For, the contradictions between Jammu and Kashmir and between the latter and Ladakh are irreconcilable.
For example, it is not a secret that an overwhelming majority of the people of Jammu and Ladakh is for total integration into India and application of the Indian Constitution to the state in full, minus Article 370, under which the state enjoys a special status for the simple reason that it is a Muslim-majority state. Besides, it is an established fact that the people of Jammu and Ladakh have suffered immense political, economic and social losses during all these years at the hands of the sectarian, separatist and Kashmir-centric successive Kashmiri-dominated governments in the state, with the New Delhi-based authorities and political class extending their unflinching support to the anti-Jammu, anti-Ladakh and anti-minority policies being meticulously evolved and ruthlessly implemented by the Kashmiri leadership, in collaboration with its henchmen in Jammu. They have made it abundantly loud and clear that they would accept only that solution that brings the state closer to New Delhi and empowers them to shape and control fully their political and economic future within the country as part of the country's mainstream.
What the people of Jammu and Ladakh want is not acceptable to the Kashmiri leadership. What the Kashmiri leadership wants is in the public domain and what it wants is not just the second partition of India on communal lines but also wants to establish its stranglehold over Jammu and Ladakh. It is not prepared to modify its approach. Nor is it prepared to give up its communal and separatist ideology.
That the people of Jammu and Ladakh and the Kashmiri leadership would never see eye to eye with each other is a hard fact and the sooner it is recognized the better. The recognition of this hard fact would automatically mean reorganization of the state on regional, as opposed to religious, basis. In fact, reorganization of the state is the only panacea available. It has the potential of satisfying the political urges of the people of Jammu and Ladakh and protecting and advancing further the national interests in this northern state and it has all the ingredients of limiting the area of strife to a few pockets in the Kashmir Valley. But even such reorganization would not resolve all the issues. Particularly, the case in point is the problem confronting the displaced Kashmiri Hindus. For, they, like the people of Jammu and Ladakh, are ardent believers in the concepts of national unity, territorial integrity and Indian sovereignty. What could be done to satisfy the political urges of these over seven lakh displaced Kashmiri Hindus? Obviously, separate homeland.
If the interlocutors are sincerely committed to satisfy the diverse political aspirations, then they have no other alternative but to suggest trifurcation of the state and bifurcation of Kashmir. |
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