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| How could Kashmiri leadership dictate terms? | | Jammu Crucial Factor | | Neha
Jammu, Sept 9: It is now clear that the Kashmiri leaders, including those belonging to the NC, the PDP, the APHC, the JKLF and so on, will not change their attitude towards India and that they want a system that is outside the Indian constitutional framework and that is acceptable to the Kashmiri-speaking Sunnis. The NC, which is a Kashmir-based outfit and which has little support-base both in Jammu province and Ladakh, has made it loud and clear that it would not accept anything short of greater autonomy. In other words, it has made it clear that it will not accept any of the Central laws and any of the Central institutions and that it would accept only that solutions that panders to communalism of worst form and that also rigorously excludes the non-Muslim minorities.
What the NC has suggested is utterly unacceptable to the people of Jammu province and Ladakh. It is also not acceptable to the internally displaced Kashmiri Hindus. They, like the people of Jammu province and Ladakh region, were for New Delhi and the Indian Constitution in the past; they are religiously committed to New Delhi and the Indian Constitution today; and they shall continue to repose their faith in New Delhi and the Indian Constitution in the future as well, notwithstanding the fact that both New Delhi and the Indian Constitution have failed to come up to their expectations. There should be no doubt it.
Similarly, the PDP, which is also a Valley-based outfit and which has no support-base either in Jammu province or Ladakh, has also made it clear that it would not accept any other solution than the self-rule. In other words, the PDP, like the NC, has also stated in clear terms that it hates New Delhi, the Indian Constitution and the Indian institutions from the core of its heart and that it wants a system that enables the Kashmiri-speaking Sunnis to not only enslave the non-Kashmiri Sunnis and members of other sects and other regions of the state, but also helps Islamabad achieve what it has failed to achieve so far.
It needs to be noted that the greater autonomy and self-rule are two sides of the same coin. The only difference is that while the greater autonomy doesn't talk much about Pakistan, the self-rule recommends a mechanism that empowers Pakistan to enjoy c-equal and sovereign powers with India in the Indian Jammu and Kashmir State. It is obvious that the suggestion of the PDP is also unacceptable to the people of Jammu province and Ladakh, as also to the uprooted Kashmiri Hindus because it runs counter to what they religiously stand for.
Likewise, the APHC (M) has, like the NC and the PDP, declared in unambiguous terms that it is for a solution that is acceptable to the Kashmiri-Muslims (read Kashmiri-speaking Sunnis) and Islamabad. To be more precise, there is no fundamental difference between what the PDP has suggested and what the APHC (M) has been advocating, particularly since 2007. That's the reason the relations between these two organizations have become quite bitter. It is the complaint of the APHC (M) that the PDP has usurped its separatist agenda. Significantly, the NC has also on occasions more than one accused the PDP of stealing its agenda. The NC has been saying that the self-rule document of the PDP is a carbon-copy of the greater autonomy document. The NC and the APHC (M) have legitimate reasons to take on or criticize the PDP. It is true that what the PDP has been suggesting as an admixture of the solutions as put forth by the NC and the APHC (M).
The attitude of the Kashmir-based or Maisuma (Srinagar)-based JKLF towards India and the Indian Constitution is no different. It wants complete independence from India on the ground that Jammu and Kashmir State is a Muslim-majority state, and, hence, it needs to be separated from the Hindu India. Identical is the attitude of other Kashmir-based "mainstream" and separatist outfits towards India and the Indian Constitution. They contemptuously dismiss New Delhi and the Indian Constitution as enemies of Kashmiri Muslims and they say that they do not want to have any kind of truck with Hindu India. Syed Ali Shah Geelani of the Tehrik-e- Hurriyat has even gone to the extent of saying that he would accept only that solution that merges Jammu and Kashmir with the Muslim Pakistan.
This is the situation. The Kashmiri Muslim leaders, without any exception, want a dispensation outside the Indian Constitution or merger with Pakistan, the people of Jammu province and Ladakh and displaced Kashmiri Hindus want their complete integration into India. Neither the Kashmiri Muslim leaders nor the people of Jammu and Ladakh and the uprooted and persecuted Kashmiri Hindus are prepared to review their respective stands.
What, then, is the way out? The only way out is the state's trifurcation into Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh States. The Kashmiri Hindus also need a dispensation of their own liking within India. Is that possible? Yes. It is possible. One simply has to divide the Kashmir Valley. In fact, this is what the displaced Kashmiri Hindus have been advocating since 1990. New Delhi has to take these realities into consideration. It has also to take note of the fact that Jammu and Ladakh would not allow the Kashmiri Muslim leaders to dictate terms any longer. To ignore these realities would be to force these two regions to react and react very sharply, even violently. |
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