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| Advani right when he holds Nehru responsible for K problem | | Contempt For Jammu | | Rustam
EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, June 27: BJP veteran and former Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani is right when he holds Jawaharlal Nehru and his daughter Indira Gandhi responsible for the Indian troubles in Kashmir and says that the "Kashmir problem is the Nehru's gift" to the country. All of his charges against Nehru and Indira Gandhi are well-founded. For example, had Nehru accepted the Maharaja Hari Singh's offer of accession to India without making Sheikh Abdullah, who had no locus standi in the matter, a party to the accession, things in the state would have been totally different and there would have been no Kashmir problem. Hari Singh's offer of accession was based on the constitutional law on the subject. Similarly, had Nehru not enforced ceasefire at the behest of Sheikh Abdullah, who wanted to set up an independent Kashmir on the basis of two-nation, the advancing Indian Army would have thrown out of the state Pakistani invaders, both regular and irregular, and there would have been no Pakistan-occupied-Jammu and Kashmir. Likewise, had Nehru not incorporated Article 370 in the Indian Constitution at the behest of Sheikh Abdullah, the international community would not have been in a position to question the status of Jammu and Kashmir. Article 370 confers a special status on Jammu and Kashmir to the extent that it has its own constitution and own flag. It was this Article that created an impression across the globe that New Delhi doesn't regard Jammu and Kashmir as an integral part of the nation as other states of the Union and that "Jammu and Kashmir is a republic within the republic." Jammu and Kashmir is the only State that enjoys special status. Those who equate Article 370 with 371 of the Indian Constitution only mislead the nation in order to counter the critics of Article 370.
Similarly, had Nehru allowed the advancing Army to accomplish the job and not taken the Kashmir issue to the anti-India and pro-Pakistan United Nations at the behest of the nominated Governor-General of India Lord Mountbatten, Pakistan would not have been in a position to browbeat and blackmail us and create troubles in the state and the United States and similar other hostile countries would not have been in a position to poke their dirty noses in the internal affairs of India. Likewise, had he not transferred political power from Jammu to Kashmir in October 1947, the situation in the state would have been altogether different and the stronger Jammu would have been able to defeat the politics of separatism and extremism being indulged in by the Kashmiri leadership.
But these are only a few of the several such instances which make everyone conclude at once that it was because of the blunders committed by Nehru that India is today paying a very heavy price both in terms of men and money. Other blunders include the promise of plebiscite and exclusion of Jammu, Ladakh and the miniscule minority of Kashmiri Hindus from his scheme of things. That Nehru had contempt for Jammu could be seen from the fact that he tried his level best in 1949 to exclude Jammu from the nomenclature of the state. He wanted the Indian Constituent Assembly to change the nomenclature of the state from the State of Jammu and Kashmir to the State of Kashmir. He also treated Ladakh in a similar fashion. Besides, he threw in the lot of the community to which he belonged with Sheikh Abdullah and his National Conference, known for their hatred for the minorities. Nehru bartered away Jammu, Ladakh and the Kashmiri Hindus in order to avenge his 1946 arrest at Kohala and please Sheikh Abdullah. He was so adamant that he refused to listen to anyone. Jammu and Kashmir was the only state he was to tackle and he, instead of tackling it in the manner Home Minister Sardar Patel had tackled other 560-odd princely states, he bungled again and again, thus queering the Indian pitch in Kashmir. (To be continued) |
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