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| Massive participation in electoral exercise & Kashmir issue two different things, says interlocutor | | Promoting Secessionism | | Rustam
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, May 22: Who are giving legitimacy to the politics of secessionism and communalism being practiced by Kashmiri leaders, separatist or otherwise, and damaging the national cause in the Valley? Believe it or not, but it is a fact that it is New Delhi that is giving legitimacy to the politics of secessionism and communalism being indulged in by Kashmiri leaders of all hues?
Take, for example, what the Prime Minister, the UPA chairperson and AICC president, the Union Home Minister and the Delhi-appointed interlocutors have been saying from time to time as far as Jammu and Kashmir State is concerned. The Prime Minister has on several occasions said that the unrest in Kashmir is because of the failure of New Delhi to fulfill the promises it made from time to time. However, he never catalogued the so-called promises New Delhi made from time to time. The UPA chairperson and AICC president, too, has expressed similar views. Both of them had also expressed these views during the all-party meeting held last year in the wake of the rise of stone-throwers in Kashmir, and the resultant break-down of the constitutional machinery in the Valley.
As for the Union Home Minister, he has not only followed in the footsteps of the Prime Minister and the UPA chairperson, but he has, everyone knows, described the problem in Kashmir as a unique problem and vouched for what he repeatedly say unique solution. What about the official interlocutors? They have, during the past about eight months, repeatedly upheld the viewpoint of the Prime Minister and the Home Minister. In fact, they have gone much beyond what the Prime Minister, the UPA chairperson and the Home Minister believe in. While one of them toyed with the idea of independence for Jammu and Kashmir, the other suggested in Kashmir that she would ask New Delhi to amend the Indian Constitution to accommodate the independence demand. So much so that one of the interlocutors said only the other day in Kashmir that the massive participation of the people in the ongoing election process and the Kashmir issue are two different issues.
In other words, he endorsed the view of the pro-self-rule People's Democratic Party that elections are held in the state to elect government in the state whose only duty it is to look after and meet the day-to-day needs of the people and that their participation in the electoral process doesn't mean that they have repose their faith in India. The ruling National Conference, an ardent believer in the concept of greater autonomy, bordering on virtual sovereignty, too, has expressed such views on occasions more than one and publicly.
If one goes by what the Prime Minister, the UPA chairperson, the Home Minister and the interlocutors have said from time to time, one is left with no other option but to conclude that they and the so-called mainstream Kashmiri leaders are on the same page and that there is consensus that Jammu and Kashmir is not an integral part of the political and constitutional organization of India. Leave alone the separatists whose stand on India is clear: India is an invader and its presence in the state illegal. That New Delhi doesn't consider Jammu and Kashmir as a settled issue became abundantly clear when the Home Minister and the Foreign Minister justified the Chief Minister's October 6, 2010 rabidly anti-India statement that Jammu and Kashmir only acceded to India and not merged with it.
This is the whole situation. It is indeed a matter of grave concern that those who are responsible for the protection and promotion of Indian sovereignty, as also responsible for the maintenance of the territorial integrity of India are hand-in-glove with those in Kashmir who despise the Indian Constitution and demand a dispensation outside the framework of Indian Constitution. They would do well to recognize that the problem in Kashmir is fundamentally communal. Not to take cognizance of the nature of problem in Kashmir would be only to strengthen the hands of those who wish to break India in the name of religion or who wish New Delhi to affect one more partition on the basis of religion, as happened in 1947. |
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