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| Kashmir leadership opposes empowerment of Jammu | | Defeat of Regressive Ideology? | | Rustam
Jammu, Oct 14: What did PDP president Mehbooba Mufti say while rejecting outright the reported suggestions of the interlocutors? She reportedly said: "Whatever we are hearing from the media about their final report, it is ridiculous and seems that they are trivializing the whole issue and reducing it to a mere administrative issue.
Devolution of powers to panchayats or regional councils is the job of the state government and not of interlocutors, tasked with finding solution of Kashmir issue… Suggestions of Five Working Groups constituted by Prime Minister of India were more solid, having potential of changing entire situation".
The otherwise very vocal Newly-appointed additional general secretary and spokesperson of the NC, Sheikh Mustafa Kamal was both cautious and assertive while talking to a section of media. He said, "it is premature to comment on the report at this juncture". At the same time, however, he said: "However if media reports are true, then we welcome their recommendations on the restoration of autonomy and revoking of AFSPA. It is to be seen what autonomy they talk about as we stand for the restoration of greater autonomy". He was quite assertive when he commented on the reported suggestion that there should be devolution of powers to regional councils and panchayats. He, like Geelani and Mufti, asserted that the "Centre has no prerogative to suggest devolution of powers to regions as it is our internal matter".
CPI-M leader and MLA from Kulgam Muhammad Yousuf Tarigami did not lag behind and expressed almost identical views. He, as per reports, said: "If it talks of some sort of autonomy, it has to be explained and other concepts envisaged in it need also explanation…If it contains suggestions like revocation of AFSPA and DAA, then they are welcome".
What does what the Kashmiri separatists and the so-called mainstream Kashmiri leaders said on the interlocutors' reported suggestions/recommendations suggest? It suggested three things. One was that the Kashmiri leaders, without any exception, are for a dispensation that is of Kashmir, by Kashmir and for Kashmir and that treats Jammu and Ladakh as Kashmir's colonies.
How else should one describe the view of Geelani, Mufti and Kamal that the creation of regional councils/development boards for Jammu and Ladakh and devolution of power to the regional councils are internal issues and that New Delhi cannot make such suggestions? The fact of the matter is that the Kashmiri leadership was anti-Jammu and anti-Ladakh in the past; that it continues to consider these two under-developed, grossly ignored and politically marginalized regions as the Kashmir's colonies; that it doesn't want the empowerment of these two regions; that the people of these two regions are entitled to only crumbs; and that Jammu and Ladakh have no other option but to groan under the Kashmiri yoke. So irrational, undemocratic and arrogant is the Kashmiri leadership.
The other was that the Kashmiri leaders of all hues, without any exception, were one as far as their stand on Jammu and Kashmir and Delhi was concerned. They once again made it loud and clear that they have hatred for the Indian political system and the central laws and institutions and that they would feel satisfied only after the state was allowed to go out of the Indian constitutional and political framework. There is no fundamental difference between those demanding greater autonomy, autonomy and self-rule and those demanding independence or merger with Pakistan.
And, last but not the least, all the Kashmiri leaders denounced the anti-terror laws like the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) and Disturbed Areas Act (DAA) as draconian and demanded their withdrawal. In other words, they demanded withdrawal of the Army from Kashmir. The Kashmiri leaders like Mustafa Kamal and Tarigami shamelessly indulged in politics of deceit to hoodwink and mislead the gullible Kashmiri Muslims. They appreciated the interlocutors' reported suggestions that the AFSPA and the Army should be withdrawn from certain areas which are peaceful but did not acknowledge that it was the state government that invoked the DAA years back and that it was because of the invocation of the DAA that the Army came in the picture and the AFSPA enforced.
It needs to be underlined that the Army is there in the civilian areas in Kashmir not on its own. It is there because the state government, controlled by the Kashmiri leaders, requested the Army to help it restore order in the disturbed areas and protect the life of the so-called mainstream Kashmiri leaders. It is also important to note that the state government (read Omar Abdullah), if it so likes, can make the AFSPA non-operational in no time and also make the Army to go back to their barracks or border. It simply has to withdraw the DAA and it is its prerogative. New Delhi nowhere comes in picture. In fact, Home Minister P Chidambaram only recently threw the ball in the court of Omar Abdullah and asked him to do what he wanted to do. But Omar Abdullah didn't do anything in this regard. He told reporters in New Delhi that "I will go back to Kashmir, discuss the whole issue with my cabinet colleagues and officers and then I will take a decision on the withdrawal of the AFSPA and Army or otherwise". It the same time, he made it clear that "it would be gradual withdrawal".
The moral of the story is that the Kashmiri leadership is not anti-India but also anti-Jammu and anti-Ladakh. The Jammu and Ladakh leadership needs to take a serious cognizance of the reaction of the Kashmiri leadership to the interlocutors' reported suggestion and work in a fashion that defeats the Kashmiri leadership, controvert their pernicious influence and ensure segregation of Jammu and Ladakh from Kashmir. It is already too late. Anymore delay on the part of Jammu and Ladakh leadership would not only facilitate the task of the anti-India forces in Kashmir, but would also seal the fate of Jammu and Ladakh for all the time to come. Act and act fast; there is no other alternative left. (Concluded) |
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