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| NC-Cong walking into the separatists' trap? | | Boycott Of Independence Day | | Neha
Jammu, Aug 10: Believe it or not what it is a fact. The NC-Congress coalition government has, according to a local news agency, decided not to involve students in the Independence Day celebrations. "The provincial administration has decided not to hold any cultural programmes by school children in connection with this year's Independence Day functions in the Bakshi Stadium," a local news agency has revealed. "Neither government nor private schools will be invited this time," the news agency has, in fact, said quoting what it calls "official sources."
It would be to cross the line if one may say so that the provincial administration has taken this controversial, nay outrageous, decision on its own. The provincial administration just can't take this decision, which has the potential of further widening the already rather wide gulf between Kashmir and New Delhi. Gulf has been deliberately and willfully created by the Kashmiri leadership that doesn't consider Kashmir an integral part of India and that has been seeking a dispensation outside the political and constitutional organization of India since decades saying Kashmir is a Muslim-majority region and, hence, it cannot have any kind of truck with the Indian constitutional framework. The provincial administration has obviously taken this mind-boggling decision at the behest of the NC-Congress coalition government, which has been doing its level best to unsettle the settled issue ever since it captured the state secretariat after entering into a power-sharing agreement.
The state chief Minister has umpteen times in the last more than 30 months questioned the accession of the state with India and demanded "political solution to resolve the political problem in Kashmir." So much so that he had, on October 7, 2010, made what could be termed as a seditious speech on the floor of the assembly with all the Congress ministers and legislators listening to his speech with considerable interest. The chief minister had said: "The state had only acceded and not merged with India." Earlier, he had launched campaign against the army and paramilitary forces and virtually demanded their withdrawal. He had also demoralized the CRPF by instituting an inquiry commission against them and the man who was appointed as chairman of the inquiry committee had given his adverse judgment even before holding an inquiry into the circumstances leading to the death of 13 stone-pelters and their supporters during the engineered clashes with the CRPF. He had also only the other day declared in Kashmir that "he has still three years at his disposal and he would see to it that the entire state is demilitarized before he demits office after completing six years in office."
The fact of the matter is that the provincial administration in Kashmir has decided not to involve students in the Independence Day celebrations at the behest of the controversial state government. The decision is fraught with dangerous ramifications. The decision would not only further embolden the already rather emboldened separatists like Syed Ali Shah Geelani, but would also create additional difficulties for the nation in Kashmir. For, the decision constitutes a serious onslaught on the Indian Constitution and the Indian State.
The NC-Congress coalition government had committed an unpardonable sin by not allowing the BJP activists to hoist the national tri-colour at Lal Chowk, Srinagar, on August 15 last year and that unwarranted action on the part of the state government had culminated in some clashes, with some BJP activists receiving serious injuries. It was expected that the Congress-led UPA Government would act against the state government, but it didn't happen. On the contrary, it sided with the NC-led government. It was this action on the part of the equally controversial union government that had emboldened the state government. The latest decision of the provincial administration needs to be viewed in this context.
It needs to be underlined that it would be for the first time in 61 years that students would not take part in the Independence Day celebrations in Kashmir. This is serious development. The Congress, which claims that it fought for and got independence in 1947 from the British and made supreme sacrifices for the national cause, must put its foot down and tell the NC that it would walk out of the government in case it refused to withdraw its controversial decision. This is imperative if the Congress is to remain somewhat relevant in the state in general and Jammu province in particular. The Congress is already at the receiving end in Jammu because of its innumerable acts of omission and commission, including its unqualified support to the NC, which has been slowly but surely driving the state away from the national mainstream to realize its most cherished goal: quasi independence or a small step short of complete independence.
What about BJP of vague statements? Perhaps, it is not aware of the aware of the decision. Had it been aware, it would have certainly issued a statement and demonstrated that it still exists. |
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