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| Wajahat wants Delhi to empower JK Assembly to determine quantum of autonomy | | Constitutional Authority Subverting Constitution I | | Rustam
JAMMU, Oct 15: Something is fundamentally wrong with the Congress and the UPA. They have not only ruined the country socially and economically and made the life of the citizenry miserable and pathetic but have also created political anarchy in the country with the sympathizers and supporters of Kashmiri separatists and those demanding autonomy and self-rule (semi-independence) taking full advantage of the situation and preaching views which, if given credence to and accepted, would surely lead to the disintegration and balkanization of India. The situation has climaxed to the point that even those holding constitutional positions are indulging in what could be legitimately described as break-India and promote-communalism activities.
Chairman of the National Commission of Minorities and former Chief Information Commissioners Wajahat Habibullah is one such dubious constitutional authority which is subverting the constitution itself by advocating a line that accords a dangerous legitimacy to the politics of autonomy, bordering on sovereignty. Habibullah sought to subvert the constitution when he was serving in Jammu and Kashmir. He tried his level best to subvert the constitution when he held the position of Chief Information Commissioner by advocating the division of the state into five geographical and administration zones - Plain areas of Jammu and hilly areas of Jammu, Buddhist-dominated Leh and Shiite-dominated Kargil and Kashmir - on purely religious lines, as also by suggesting an autonomous status for the state completely forgetting that the state consists of three distinct historical regions housing different people professing different faiths and having different aspirations. Mercifully, it was Prime Minister Manmohan Singh who used his services to disturb the state's already rather delicate socio-religious and political equilibrium.
Habibullah should have been kicked out of the office by the Congress and the UPA but it did not happen. Instead, he was rewarded after he demitted the office of Chief Information Commissioner. He was made Chairman of the National Minorities Commission. Convinced that the Congress and the UPA are perverted formations and that the time is ripe for advocating autonomy for the state, Habibullah two days ago proposed "autonomy for Jammu and Kashmir as determined by the state assembly with power to approve the final state plan as one of the measures to resolve" what he called "the Kashmir problem". Actually, he delivered a lecture on "Kashmir: The Present and The Future" at the Institute of Defence Studies and Analysis (IDSA), New Delhi.
What did he suggest while delivering his lecture on Jammu and Kashmir? He, among other things, suggested: "Regional-level council on the lines of Hill Development Councils in Kashmir, Jammu, Ladakh, with Planning Committees and setting up of Zilla Councils at district level with district development boards and village councils, besides Halqa Majlis (Panchayats) in various parts of the state".
There is nothing wrong if three fully empowered regional councils - one each for Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh - are established. In fact, all the three regions need separate and definite political instruments because the existing politico-constitutional set-up has utterly failed to meet the needs and aspiration of Jammu and Ladakh and mitigate the problems the people of these two regions have been facing at the hands of Kashmiri leadership since 1947. That the people of Jammu and Ladakh have never got what was their due is an established fact. It is also an established fact that the Kashmiri leadership has no regard whatever for the aspirations and sentiments of the people of these two regions, victims of Kashmiri Muslim sub-nationalism and pro-Kashmir New Delhi. Habibullah knows all this. He also knows that there is no love lost between Jammu and Kashmir and between Kashmir and Ladakh. It is perhaps this realization that made the otherwise unwilling Habibullah to recognize that there also exist in the state Jammu and Ladakh regions and suggested regional councils for all the three regions of the state. It was his compulsion. There should be no doubt about it. His attentions were not novel in the past and his intentions are not novel even today. Hence, it would be suicidal if one feels appreciative of Habibullah on the ground that he has treated all the three regions equally by suggesting the establishment of three regional councils. (To be continued) |
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