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| Jammu State Morcha’s solution to the Jammu problem | | Trifurcation Only Solution | | STARK REALITY
RUSTAM
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, May 19: Jammu State Morcha (JSM) has urged the Jammu leadership
to unite and fight for the rights of the people of Jammu province. It
has said any failure on the part of Jammu leadership to unite and
fight at this critical juncture would seal the fate of the people of
this province for all the times to come. Its fear has stemmed from the
reports that the New Delhi-appointed interlocutors could submit their
report to the Union Government anytime from now and that their report
might recommend a Kashmir-centric solution. The JSM is absolutely
right. Its apprehensions are also well-founded. Indeed, it’s time for
the Jammu leaders to forget all the differences and create an
environment that not only defeats comprehensively those who have been
out to pander to Kashmiri communalism and separatism but also empowers
the people of Jammu province to manage their own affairs themselves
independent of Kashmir.
The JSM has, in addition, put forth a solution which, according to it,
if accepted, would end the Jammu’s night of discontent and despair.
Its solution: “Bifurcation of civil secretariat, directorates and
state corporations; establishment of the bifurcated units in Jammu and
Srinagar with each unit having separate administrative staff,
including head of the department/secretary; reservation of provincial
level posts, including Gazetted and non-Gazetted, for citizens belong
to their respective provinces; establishment of parity (50:50) between
Kashmir and Jammu as far as the share in the state level positions is
concerned; special drive to recruit persons from Jammu province so
that share of Jammu province in the State level services comes at par
with that of Kashmir; parity between Kashmir and Jammu as far as
allocation of funds for developmental activities in the two provinces
are concerned; special financial package for Jammu so that it comes at
par with Kashmir; delimitation of assembly constituencies; and
adequate representation to Jammu province.”
In other words, the JSM expressed the view that an “independent
political and administrative structure” alone could end the
“exploitation” of the people of Jammu province, as also end the
“Kashmiri domination.” Besides, it emphasized the need of taking up in
right earnest certain issues, including the issues of Jammu Central
University and Dogra Certificate.
No one can disagree with the fundamental issue the JSM has raised.
Similarly, everyone in Jammu province would appreciate its initiative
to draw the attention of the people to the basic problems they have
been facing. But more than that, all the objective Jammu-watchers
would endorse the JSM’s
independent-political-and-administrative-structure formulation,
notwithstanding the fact that it appears somewhat vague – vague in the
sense that the JSM wants a dispensation within the existing framework,
which is essentially Kashmir-centric and unitary.
It may be mentioned that what the JSM has suggested is what the
Panthers Party’s Agenda 2011 suggested some four months ago. There is
no difference. Rather, the Agenda 2011 was somewhat radical. Radical
in the sense that it talked about separate chief minister and separate
assembly. The JSM would do well to ponder over what it has suggested
as a solution to the Jammu problem and work for the trifurcation of
the state into Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh states. In fact, the Jammu’s
salvation lies in the state’s trifurcation. It would also do well to
remember that its time for action and not for issuing appeals.
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