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| Three-way split can satisfy all in J&K | | Farooq’s Flawed Approach | | RUSTAM
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, May 27: National Conference president and Union Minister for Renewable Energy Farooq Abdullah has not done justice to the position he holds in the Union Government. He is an Indian and every Indian would expect everyone in the government to defend the Indian cause and advocate a line that preserves the Indian sovereignty and maintains the territorial integrity of India. None would like any minister in the Union Government or in any of the state government to advocate a line as Farooq Abdullah advocated on May 26 at Nainital for the simple reason that such a line has the potential of promoting the cause of rogue Pakistan in the Indian Jammu and Kashmir. Farooq Abdullah, it may be recalled, said yesterday “an amicable solution is needed for the Kashmir problem which satisfies the people of the State as well as India and Pakistan.” And, remember, he made this highly controversial statement at Raj Bhawan while addressing media persons.
What exactly did he mean when he say that a solution has to be such as is also acceptable to Pakistan? Did he mean the Pakistani presence in the Indian Jammu and Kashmir? Or, did he mean a solution that empowers Pakistan, which has been striving to the hilt since 1947 to grab Jammu and Kashmir on the ground that it is a Muslim-majority state and bleeding India with a thousand-cut at regular intervals, to enjoy co-equal powers with India in the Indian Jammu and Kashmir? What did he mean? He needs to explain his stand on India vis-à-vis Pakistan. It is imperative. For, what he said at Nainital has raised several questions, including a question: which of the two countries he represents and does he still believe in the two-nation theory? The whole truth is that Farooq Abdullah has sided with a country that is being dismissed with contempt by the international community as a rogue, failed and terrorist state and as a state that is on the verge of ruins. It is indeed disturbing that we have in the Indian establishment elements who, instead of taking on the Indian enemy, are overtly and covertly helping it. Has India become a banana republic?
However, one would surely appreciate his view that the solution to the so-called Kashmir problem must be acceptable to the people of the state and India. As for India, the position is very clear: Jammu and Kashmir is an integral part of India; it is a settled issue; and the state’s accession is irrevocable and non-negotiable. And, as far as the people of the state are concerned, it is more than clear that there is no love lost between Jammu and Kashmir and between the latter and Ladakh and that while Jammu and Ladakh are religiously committed to India and the Indian Constitution, the Kashmiri leaders of all hues are rabidly opposed to the constitutional framework of India. To be more precise, the contradictions between Jammu/Ladakh and the Kashmiri leaders are irreconcilable. And, hence, what is needed is the three-way split of the state. Even former chairman of the APHC Abdul Gani Bhat has publicly acknowledged that the people of Jammu and Ladakh are a different stuff and that they are not part the movement the Valley has been witnessing since 1989. Farooq Abdullah would do well to pursue the Bhat’s line and urge New Delhi to tread the path Bhat suggested just three days ago. He must remember that the people of Jammu and Ladakh are as they are and they would never ever change their stand towards India and the Indian Constitution.
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