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| Return policy a tragedy in waiting, says PK | | PM’s Employment Package | | RUSTAM
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Mar 2: Panun Kashmir chairman Ajay Chrungoo has denounced the much-talked about Prime Minister’s employment as an “instrument of blackmail” and as a tool designed to hold the “displaced Kashmiri Hindus hostage” to “communal and separatist imperatives in the state.” He has strongly urged the Prime Minister to “review the entire structure of the policy of Government of India on the issue of return and rehabilitation of internally displaced Kashmiri Hindus.”
“We want the Prime Minister of India to realize that his employment package for the displaced Kashmiri Hindus is being used to exploit the destitution of Kashmiri Hindus to return to the Valley in conditions which are far worse than 1990 when they were forcibly pushed out,” he has, in fact, said. It is important to note that the PK leader has also referred to the statement of none other than the Prime Minister himself in this context indicating his concern over the “deteriorating situation in Kashmir” and urged him to take cognizance of the same so that the whole return policy is reviewed taking into consideration the “imminent dangers of (the) policy on the return of Kashmiri Hindus.”
What has made the PK leader denounce the proposed return and rehabilitation policy and urge the Prime Minister to review the same is the belief of the displaced community of Kashmiri Hindus that the “employment package…is being used to exploit the destitution of Kashmiri Hindus to return to Valley in conditions which are far worse than 1990 when they were forcibly pushed out.” To make his point, which appears quite sound, the PK leader has referred to what he candidly calls the “brazen demonstration of communal and separatist bias in the recent times” by “the organs of (the) state government and the society in Kashmir Valley.” In this regard, he has said: “The forces which brought about the exodus of Kashmiri Hindus have (of late) become far more numerous and vocal”, that they “are roaming (about) freely”, and that they “are calling the political shots. In this situation the return policy of Kashmir Hindus is only a declaration of a tragedy in waiting.”
He has not stopped here. He has gone several steps further and lamented: “The so-called voluntary undertakings by the Kashmiri Hindus to return are basically smoke-screens created by the state government in cohorts with the communal establishment of the Valley to hide the real motivations behind the process. These undertakings are, in fact, no more than ploys of hostaging of Kashmiri Hindus to create a secular mirage. They are no more than attempts to give attrition a legal face.”
He has, in addition, accused the state government of conspiring against the displaced Kashmiri Hindus with a view to creating schism within the displaced and persecuted society and said: “it has actually involved itself more in creating a team of bounty hunters which they can flaunt as leaders of Kashmiri Hindus and use them as collaborators in their designs rather than addressing the issue of return in a framework which is proper.”
So much so that the PK leader has drawn the attention of the Prime Minister to the fact that the “return policy has reduced the issue of internal displacement into an issue of employment” ignoring the fact that their struggle has been against those who were responsible for their genocide, as also to the fact that such forces now stand multiplied. There is the need on the part of the Government of India to “realize that Sangrampora, Wandhahama, Nadimarg and Chattisinghpora massacres were a result of a genocidal machinery operating in Kashmir valley” and that “this machinery continues to operate even now and has grown stronger over the years,” he has vociferously said.
Not only this, he has also brought to the notice of the Prime Minister the fact that the “state government has already declared not to bear the burden of its share in the employment package and conveyed in no uncertain terms that the same was against the constitution of the state” and asserted, and rightly so, that this formulation of the powers-that-be only “reflects the bias and the exclusivist attitude” which, according to him, “has plagued the policy of the state government.” He has suggested that it would be only prudent if the “employment package is implemented in Jammu by temporarily shifting all the newly-created posts from the Valley to Jammu till normalcy is restored there.”
What the PK leader has said is also coupled with an unequivocal warning: “We forewarn the Prime minister that in a type of situation that exists in Kashmir valley, the soft targets, particularly Kashmiri Hindus and Sikhs, have become more vulnerable. To ignore this reality may prove to be an act of criminal negligence and a crime against humanity.” As a matter of fact, he has categorically asked the Government of India to “correct its approach and not indulge in symbolism which is vicious and self-defeating.” The upshot of his whole argument has been that “it is the return of normalcy that will ensure return of displaced Kashmiri Hindus to the Valley as well as restoration of its secular texture.”
No sane person and no objective Kashmir-watcher would dismiss what the PK leader has said as something silly and preposterous. For, what he has said is based on the ground realities in Kashmir. It’s time for the Prime Minister to recognize that the “problem in Kashmir is the problem of uncontested communalism” and act accordingly. If he really wants to give effect to his return and rehabilitation policy, he has no other option but to contest the politics of communalism and separatism in Kashmir by taking on board and actually empowering all the victims of the exclusivist and intolerant ideology. Not to do so or to continue to cling to the same old policy would be only to strengthen those who are responsible for the exodus of the Kashmiri Hindus and miserable plight of other minorities in the state.
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