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| Karan Singh does some plain-speaking | | Exposing Nehru | | Rustam
JAMMU, Sept 23: Former Maharaja and Sadar-e-Riysat of Jammu and Kashmir and Member Parliament Dr Karan Singh has finally spoken the truth and exposed late Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru to put things in perspective. According to media reports, reflecting on the circumstances leading to the exile of his father, Maharaja Hari Singh, from the state, Karan Singh not only held Nehru responsible for the shabby treatment meted out to his father but he also accused him of hatching a conspiracy, in collaboration with Sheikh Abdullah of the Valley-based and pro-semi-independence National Conference, against the Maharaja.
What Karan Singh said was already known to the people, who have all through bemoaned the kind of treatment meted out to Maharaja Hari Singh whose only fault was that he was against the British Government, the All-India Muslim League, the Congress and Sheikh Abdullah for some very cogent reasons. One of the most cogent reasons was that he was fed up with the conspiratorial activities which the British Government, the Congress leadership of the time and Sheikh Abdullah indulged in even before 1947 to destabilize his popular government by fomenting communal troubles in Kashmir using Sheikh Abdullah and others of his ilk, all opposed to the otherwise benevolent Dogra rule. Their objective, according to Karan Singh, was to "benefit Sheikh Abdullah". He is absolutely right. Objective students of political and constitutional history of Jammu and Kashmir know all this, while the vested interests in Kashmir and their supporters outside the state have all through made concerted attempts at distorting and murdering history.
However, what is significant is that it is Karan Singh, privy to almost all the developments that unfolded in the wake of the state's lawful accession to India, who has spoken on the subject and at a time when communal and anti-India forces in and outside the state have ganged up against the country and heighten their break-India activities. The esteemed readers of the Early Times are fully aware of the developments which have unfolded during the past few months, as this writer has been consistently cataloguing all these developments, along with comments, in these columns and, hence, it's no use repeating what these columns carried at regular intervals in these columns.
What was all the more significant was Karan Singh's unambiguous suggestion that "had Maharaja Hari Singh broken his silence and opened his mouth, the government of Nehru would have been embarrassed". Karan Singh made another significant revelation: "Maharaja Hari Singh had suggested a realistic and workable solution in the context of the country's partition, but Sheikh Abdullah exploited the developing situation with the blessing of Nehru and occupied the seat of power in the state". Even more significant perhaps was the Karan Singh's unequivocal charge that "Sheikh Abdullah unleashed in 1931 no-holds-barred hate-campaign against the Dogras" and, at the same time, suggested that had his father and Sheikh Abdullah reached a settlement, the history of he state and the sub-continent would have been altogether different and there would have been peace in the region".
What Karan Singh told the other day in New Delhi should clinch the whole issue and establish that Maharaja Hari Singh and the Dogras suffered irreparable political damages owing the machinations of Nehru and his canny moves to pit Sheikh Abdullah against Maharaja Hari Singh and transfer the political power from Jammu to Kashmir. History and the Dogras will never forgive Nehru for the sins he committed against Maharaja Hari Singh, the Dogras and the nation. For, the Dogras and the nation have been paying through their nose for the sins Nehru committed to keep Sheikh Abdullah on his right side. The miserable plight of the Dogras and the sufferings of the nation in the state need to be viewed in the light of what Karan Singh said. |
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