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| Jammu against discrimination, wants parity with Kashmir | | Unfair Polity | | Neha
JAMMU, Aug 29: The people of Duggar Pradesh are the most neglected community in the country. They have been suffering enormous socio-economic and political losses ever since 1947, when the Congress and the then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru transferred political power from Jammu to Kashmir to appease his anti-Jammu and anti-Dogra friend Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah. He transferred the political power from the Duggar Pradesh to Kashmir knowing it full well that Sheikh Abdullah had no love lost for the Dogras, as also overlooking the fact that the Sheikh and Valley-based National Conference had hatred for India. Nehru overlooked all the antecedents of the Sheikh to prove his so-called secular credentials and avenge his arrest that had taken place in 1946 at Kohala at the behest of Maharaja Hari Singh. He threw in the lot of the Dogras with the Sheikh and essentially communal and separatist National Conference much to their chagrin, thus sealing their fate.
Not content with the transfer of political power from Duggar Pradesh to the Sheikh, Nehru accorded a very special treatment to Kashmir at the behest of the National Conference president. He persuaded the Indian Constituent Assembly to incorporate Article 370 in the Constitution. Article 370 not only created an impression the world over that the Kashmiri Muslims were a race apart and that Jammu and Kashmir was not an integral part of the country to the same extent as other princely states which had acceded to the Indian Dominion under the Indian independence Act of 1947. Besides, Article 370 granted absolute and extraordinary executive, legislative and financial powers to the Kashmiri ruling elite. These powers were conferred on the Kashmiri ruling elite sans any accountability.
Using the powers granted by Article 370, the Kashmiri ruling elite established its stranglehold over Jammu and Ladakh to the extent that it rendered the Dogras, Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs included, unreal and ineffective for all practical purposes. The Kashmiri ruling elite did it with utmost ease because it manipulated more than 50 per cent seats in the Constituent-cum-Legislative Assembly using foul means and it caused an irreparable damage notwithstanding the fact that the Duggar Pradesh was far more superior to Kashmir both in terms of population and geographical areas. The Sheikh's government established its stranglehold over the Constituent-cum-Legislative Assembly in 1951 with the full backing of Nehru and his perverted Congress party. The establishment of stranglehold over the Constituent-cum-Legislative Assembly helped the Kashmiri leadership to enact the Valley-centric and anti-Jammu laws as well as to deprive the Dogras of all those rights they used to exercise before the state's accession to the Indian Dominion.
The then Jammu leadership, like the present Jammu leadership, gave its unstinted support to the Kashmiri leadership and it hit the Dogras below the belt at the behest of Nehru and others of his ilk who never believed in democratic principles or principles of justice and equity. Nehru made the entire Jammu leadership swung solidly behind the Sheikh and his National Conference government. Every move was deliberate.
The control of the Kashmiri leadership over the Constituent-cum-legislative Assembly, coupled with unqualified support of the powers-that-be in Delhi and the Jammu leadership, created a situation under which the Kashmiri leadership could ride roughshod and jeopardize even the general political and economic rights of the Dogras. All this led to the degeneration of their socio-economic and political life. The things today have worsened to the extent that the very identity and personality of the Duggar Pradesh and the Dogras is under grave threat.
The dogras are no loner prepared to accept this position of servitude. They want a system that ends the over 63-year-old discriminatory policies and parity with Kashmir in all spheres and at all levels. They are not against Kashmir and the people of Kashmir (read Kashmiri Muslims as almost all the non-Muslims have quit the Valley to escape their physical liquidation at the hands of fanatics and save their religion and culture). They are against the system that is discriminatory and that is unitary in character, spirit and implications.
The powers-that-be in New Delhi and the Kashmiri leadership would do well to recognize that the Dogras are seething with discontent and that their discontent could cause uncontrollable explosions in the Duggar Pradesh anytime. It would be better if the authorities act before it is too late. Similarly, the Jammu-based Dogra leadership has to refashion its attitude towards its Jammu Constituency and serve its genuine cause. It cannot afford to act in the manner it has acted so far and harmed its own constituency. |
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