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| Division of Jammu on religious lines will result into a holocaust | | Governor’s Address | |
STARK REALITY
RUSTAM
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Mar 8: There are potent reasons to believe that a move is afoot to divide Jammu province on religious lines to facilitate the implementation of the Dixon Plan/Musharraf formula and establish Greater Kashmir comprising Kashmir province and Muslim-majority areas of Jammu province and Ladakh region. That serious efforts are on to divide Jammu province became quite evident when State Governor N N Vohra in his Address to the joint session of the State Legislature on February 28 made a statement that his “Government remains committed to securing the equitable development of all the three regions and sub-regions of the State.” Finance Minister A R Rather also talked about the otherwise non-existent sub-regions while presenting his budget for 20110-2012.
It is not for the first time that the term like sub-region has been used to create hatred among the people of Jammu province or set the followers of one religion against the other, notwithstanding the fact that there exists only three distinct regions in the state, which have been divided into districts for administrative purposes. The communal forces have been using such terms since long. So much so that in 2009 the Jammu & Kashmir Legislative Council had a resolution on the “Chenab Valley Autonomous Hill Council,” notwithstanding the fact that there existed no such Valley as the Chenab Valley anywhere in the state.
It was this development that had created a sort of furore in Jammu, with some of the concerned citizens denouncing the move in downright language. They had even organized a press conference to register their emphatic protest against the move. Talking to media persons, they had said: “A sinister process seems to have been set-into-motion to divide Jammu Province along the Chenab River on communal lines and facilitate the emergence of Greater Kashmir, comprising the Valley and Muslim majority areas of Jammu and Ladakh.” They had justified their apprehension by referring to the adoption of a resolution on the “Chenab Valley Autonomous Hill Council” in Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Council without any opposition from any political party. They had also referred to certain other “administrative measures taken by the state government in recent times” and asserted that they were all designed to facilitate implementation of the 1950 Sir Owen Dixon Plan.
They had, in addition, accused “a significant section of the top echelons of Indian Political class, cutting across party lines,” of “toying with the idea of a compromise with Pakistan to accommodate its sinister designs on Jammu and Kashmir.” The upshot of their whole argument was that the “original Dixon Plan is being disguised in the wraps of Musharaf Formula, Kathwari Plan, Greater Autonomy or Self-rule” and that the “National Conference and the PDP have been making regular forays into various areas of Jammu province to polarize communal opinion in favour of Greater Kashmir.”
Their opposition to the Dixon Plan was based on the fact that the “entire process has a bearing on the very survival of minorities across the length and breadth of the state.” “The authority of the Government of India in the state and its commitment to protect secular imperatives stands undermined, as never before since the independence of the country. The situation is even worse than the era when the British Rulers embarked upon carving out Pakistan in the Muslim majority areas of the undivided India”, they had also said.
They had asserted, and rightly, that “there is a large corpus of opinion in these areas which still believes that the Government of India and the political class will never indulge in such a treachery” and warned it that “it is a situation similar to when the people living in Lahore before the partition believed in the assurances of Gandhi and Nehru that partition of the country shall never become a reality”. In other words, they had urged this section to ponder over the situation and adopt an approach that could defeat those thinking in terms of dividing Jammu along River Chenab, setting up of Greater Kashmir and compromising the Indian position in Jammu and Kashmir by accommodating the evil designs of Pakistan in this part of the country.
They had emphasized that the “holocaust that followed the country’s partition is bound to replicate (here in Jammu province) given the fact that religious cleansing in Kashmir valley has not shaken the reckless Indian Political class”. “In this situation, all right thinking people, particularly in Jammu Province, have a greater responsibility to stop another partition and prevent the impending holocaust”, they had opined. They were absolutely right. The use of the term sub-division in the Governor’s Address and the Finance Minister’s budget speech needs to be viewed in this context.
It needs to be underlined that every district in the state has a development board, which is headed by a minister. Member of the Parliament and legislators representing that district are the members. They and the concerned officials in the district take decisions on the developmental needs. In fact, it is their fundamental duty to devise schemes that meet the developmental needs of the people of the district. They should be held responsible if the said district remains backward or underdeveloped. The need of the time is to strengthen these district development boards and not to create schism among the people of Jammu province. One can only hope and pray that all the Members of Parliament and all the legislators, without any exception, rise to the occasion and defeat the evil designs of those seeking to divide the province so that the impending disaster is averted.
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