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| JKNPP moves High Court, demands permanent secretariat for Jammu | | No Logic Behind Durbar Move -- I | | Neha
JAMMU, Nov 7: Notwithstanding several inconsistencies and glaring contradictions in its approach, the Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party (JKNPP) has not only been playing an important role in the political history of Jammu province since 1982, but also fighting for the country's cause in its own way. The JKNPP was founded in 1982 by Bhim Singh. The JKNPP leadership has approached the highest court of justice in India a number of times to ensure the collapse of the dangerous moves of the Jammu and Kashmir Government and succeeded in applying brakes at least twice.
It was the JKNPP which knocked at the doors of the Supreme Court to ensure the collapse of the 1982 Resettlement Bill. The case is still pending in the Supreme Court. Had the then NC government succeeded in its sinister game-plan, thousands and thousands of those who had migrated to Pakistan in the wake of the communal partition of India in 1947 and become Pakistani nationals would have returned to Jammu and other places in the province and reoccupied what we call the evacuee property. They would have rendered homeless thousands of refugees from Pakistan-occupied-Jammu and Kashmir (POJK) living in these evacuee properties, allotted to them by the government. Credit for defeating the NC move undoubtedly goes to the JKNPP.
Similarly, it was the JKNPP leadership which approached the country's apex court to ensure the collapse of the return and rehabilitation policy as devised by the NC-Congress coalition government, in collaboration with the Congress-led UPA government at the centre. This happened only this year. This case is also pending in the Supreme Court. The return and rehabilitation policy means the return to and rehabilitation in Kashmir of those Kashmiri boys who crossed over to Pakistan in 1989-1990 to undergo arms training so that they could fight against the Indian State and de-link Jammu and Kashmir from India. Had this policy been implemented, a number of Pakistanis, besides the POJK-based Kashmiri terrorists, would have come to Kashmir and played havoc with India.
It is again the JKNPP leadership which has now approached the Jammu and Kashmir High Court and urged it to pass an order that do away with the 140-year-old practice of Durbar move from Jammu to Srinagar and vice-versa. It approached the High Court on October 24, 2011. In fact, it challenged the Government Order No: 1183-GAD of 2011, dated 10.10.2011 on the Durbar move. After hearing the counsel (HC Jalmeria) of the petitioner (Balwant Singh Mankotia, JKNPP state president), the High Court has issued notices to the Government of Jammu and Kashmir through the Chief Secretary and the Union Government through the Union Home Secretary. The petition is styled Civil Original jurisdiction WPPIL No. 29/2011.
It bears recalling that Maharaja Ranbir Singh, who succeeded Maharaja Gulab Singh in 1857, had stared the practice of Durbar move in 1872. What had motivated Ranbir Singh to move his Durbar to Srinagar from Jammu for six months every year were the conspiratorial activities indulged in by the British to instigate the Kashmiri Muslim leadership, predominantly religious, to foment anti-Dogra troubles in the Valley and establish their foothold in the northern areas, including Chitral, Gilgit-Baltistan, Hunza, Nagar, Yasin, Ishkoman, Iskardu, Ladakh and so on to watch the activities of Russia, which, according to the British, was trying to establish her foothold in Afghanistan and jeopardize the British geo-political interests in the region. The British were not happy with the Treaty of Amritsar they themselves had signed with Maharaja Gulab Singh in March 1846. Had the Sikh rule collapsed before March 1846, the British would not have handed over Kashmir to Gulab Singh in lieu of Rs 75 lakh. The Sikh rule ended in 1849. And, it was from 1849 onwards that the canny Britons started violating the terms of the Amritsar Treaty. Their main objective was to control the Dogra Maharajas, construct military roads connecting the state with the strategic northern territories, defeating the Russian moves and securing the northern frontiers.
Another factor that had motivated Maharaja Ranbir Singh to start the practice of Durbar move was his intention to establish direct contact with the people of Kashmir and neutralize the influence of the British Government which was creating troubles in Kashmir for Jammu through its Officer-on-Special Duty, a Briton. Those who say that Maharaja Ranbir Singh started the practice of Durbar move for administrative reasons are only partly right. (To be continued) |
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