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| Congress & UPA squandering the historic opportunity | | Handling J&K | | Rustam
Jammu, Nov 23: The Panun Kashmir (PK), a frontline organization of the internally-displace Kashmiri Hindus, on Monday blasted the Congress and the UPA for mishandling Jammu & Kashmir and "squandering" what it called the "historic opportunity of a very favourable international environment". "The Government of India is fast squandering the historic opportunity of a very favorable international environment and the consequent awareness that Pakistani State is the epicenter of International terrorism. Instead of strengthening the national position in the state and dealing a decisive blow to Islamist separatism in the state, the Government of India seems to be engaged in a process of granting crucial concessions to Pakistan as well as separatist constituency in Jammu and Kashmir," the PK leaders Dr Ajay Chrungoo, Prof M K Teng and Jagan Koul said. Chrungoo and Teng are Jammu-based and Koul US-based. Koul also heads the Diversity USA, a national democratic think-tank for minority affairs in the United States. He was here in Jammu a couple of days ago and his basic objective behind the Jammu visit was to make his Jammu-based colleagues aware of what had been going in the United States as far as Jammu & Kashmir, Pakistan and Afghanistan were concerned, as also to have a firsthand information about the status and plight of the displaced community of Kashmiri Hindus.
In fact, he came to Jammu all the way from the United States to exchange and share his views on the state of affairs in Jammu & Kashmir in the light of happenings in Pakistan and Afghanistan, as also the plight of the internally-displaced Kashmiri Hindus. Both the PK and the Diversity USA were one in taking on and lambasting the Government of India (read the Congress and the UPA government). Both accused them of "mishandling the affairs in Jammu and Kashmir" and bemoaned that the handling of the sensitive state by the Government of India "has been disgusting". So much so, they said that the "Government of India as well as the state government are involved in recognizing and engaging the most radical formations, as well as their leadership in the state, as legitimate political forces who can deliver peace" and added that "this entire approach is shameful and also dangerous". "The Government of India has not embarked upon a process of return of internally-displaced Kashmiri Hindus by addressing the critical issue of the reversal of their genocide. Instead, It has unleashed a policy of their abandonment to hand them over and submit to the political order as it is existing now in the Valley," they also said. By the political order they meant the rise of a regime that is hostile towards the minorities as well as India and that is regressive, intolerant, reactionary, backward-looking and exclusivist.
They did not stop there. They accused the relief organization of being a political department of the state government and termed it as a "symbol of corruption. "The relief Organization created for ameliorating the plight of the internally-displaced Kashmiri Hindus has been gradually turned into (a) political department to generate dismay, disarray, and desperation amongst Kashmiri Hindus living outside (the) Kashmir Valley. This organization has also become a symbol of corruption," they said. They, in addition, revealed that the "small numbers of Kashmiri Hindus who have returned (to the Valley) are in an atmosphere where freedom of expression is seriously curtailed" and where "they have to keep silent for safety and listen to the prodding of both the separatist establishment as well as the government". Indeed, a very sad reflection on the environment in which the Kashmiri Hindus are languishing in Kashmir.
The most significant aspect of the interaction between the PK and Diversity USA was the resolve that "they will pool their efforts to bring to the light of the world at large that the separatist campaign in the Kashmir Valley is becoming the epicenter of terrorism in India" and that "they will also make the world aware about the fraud being perpetrated on Kashmiri Hindus in the name of return policy and dangers to their life, dignity and cultural identity".
What the PK leaders said was horrifying and disturbing. They did not exaggerate things. They only presented an accurate picture of facts. New Delhi is indeed pandering to the politics of secessionism and put at stake not only the minorities in the state who constitute almost 40 per cent of the state population, but the very paramount national interest. The fact that the Indian Prime Minister hailed his Pakistani counterpart as "man of peace" only the other day overlooking the 26/11 Mumbai carnage and the fact that those who are demonizing the Indian Army and questioning the very accession of the state are still at the helm should indicate the direction New Delhi is heading towards. It is disgusting. |
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