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| Kashmiri leadership hates Indian Constitution, not Indian rupees | | | RUSTAM
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Mar 26: Give us more money because Jammu and Kashmir is starving because of paucity of funds. Give us more money because we want to develop the “alienated” Kashmir. Give us more money because we want to open more schools, colleges, universities and technical and professional institutions in Kashmir in order to meet the educational needs of the people of Kashmir. Give us more money because we are the second most corrupt state in the country and we don’t know where has the money gone. Give us more money because we want to develop further the already rather developed tourism industry in the Kashmir Valley. Give us more money because Kashmir is under-developed and extremely backward. Give us more money because we want to further develop agriculture, sericulture and horticulture in Kashmir. Give us more money because we want to preserve a part of our heritage. Give us more funds because we do not have money in our treasury to pay salaries to the employees working with the government and semi-government establishments in the state. Give us more money because our treasury is empty and we cannot pay arrears to our employees. Give us more money because we have not been able to construct more flyovers and bridges in the valley to further develop the already highly developed communication network there. Give us more money because we want to develop and preserve the water-bodies in Kashmir. Give us more money because our ministers need more TA and DA, as they are visiting their respective constituencies almost on a daily basis. Give us more money because we want to take care of the over-burdened ministers and we want them to remain healthy. Give us more money because we want to hike the salaries of our ministers and legislators. Give us money because we want to rehabilitate with honour our respectable gun-totting militants in Kashmir under the healing touch policy. Give us more money because we want to subsidize everything in the Kashmir Valley to end the “alienation” of the people there. Give us more money because we need it for several other purposes, including the need to provide a foolproof security cover to the Kashmiri radicals and those waging a war on India.
We want to make it clear that we want only the hard-earned Indian rupees. We do not want to have any kind of political and constitutional truck with New Delhi because such an association alienates a section of Kashmiri Muslims. While we want more and more money from New Delhi to develop ourselves and Kashmir, we want New Delhi to pack up and quit Kashmir forthwith. We want New Delhi to quit Kashmir because New Delhi’s presence in Kashmir is illegal and unconstitutional; it has broken umpteen promises. We want New Delhi to quit Kashmir because New Delhi has always played foul with a section of Kashmiri Muslims; it has brought the Valley under the purview of certain central laws and institutions using foul means. And so on and so forth.
And, the funds are forthcoming. And, New Delhi is yielding. And, New Delhi is putting at the disposal of the Kashmiri leadership whatever it wants. As of now New Delhi has announced umpteen financial packages and it is difficult to calculate the money New Delhi has pumped into Kashmir. Inder Kumar Gujral did so. Devegowda did so. B P Singh did so. Atal Behari Vajpayee did so. Manmohan Singh has been doping so ever since he became the Prime Minister. In fact, every Prime Minister of India did so to keep the Kashmiri leadership and a section of the Kashmiri population in good humour.
Yesterday, our worthy Finance Minister, who day in and day out propagates the view that the alienation in Kashmir is because of the New Delhi’s desire to maintain close political and constitutional relations with Kashmir, met the Union Finance Minister and sought release of the State Plan amount withheld by New Delhi. New Delhi has withheld over Rs 1000 crore out of a total of Rs 6000 crore annual plan because the state government has reportedly not submitted utilization certificates in certain cases. There is a report that the Union Finance Minister has assured the state Finance Minister that the funds would soon be released. Why this delay? New Delhi should release the required funds. Any failure on his part to do so would cause more alienation in Kashmir.
What is all this? Something has gone fundamentally wrong with New Delhi. It, instead of reining in the Kashmiri leadership, which has been systematically and meticulously queering the Indian pitch in Kashmir, is pampering it by meeting all of its demands, reasonable or otherwise. This is not the way. Kashmiri historian Kalhana has once rightly said: “If you wish to tackle the problem, don’t give them more than what they require. If you would give them more than one they need, then they would turn damras (rebels).” This is precisely what has happened in Kashmir. It’s time for New Delhi to read Kalhana’s Rajataringni and act accordingly.
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