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| Kashmiri leadership can't speak for Jammu | | Breaking Impasse | | Neha
JAMMU, Dec 6: The Kashmir-based NC demands greater autonomy, bordering on sovereignty. The people of Jammu province are opposed to it. They don't want autonomy; they want complete integration into India as well as their full empowerment within the Indian Constitution. The Kashmir-based NC leadership wants the Government of India to demilitarize certain areas of the state. It also wants New Delhi to revoke AFSPA, notwithstanding the fact that AFSPA is there because the state government invoked provisions of the Disturbed Areas Act (DAA) way back in 1990 to defeat the separatists' and extremists' onslaught. The people of Jammu province do not share these views of the NC leadership. Contrarily, they want the Army and paramilitary forces to exercise more powers, coupled with legal immunity, so that the menace of terrorism and separatism, based on religious fanaticism, is comprehensibly defeated and the borders secured for India to defeat the Pakistani evil designs. The institution of Army is sacrosanct for the people of Jammu province because they believe, and very rightly, that there can't be any state, sans Army.
The Kashmir-based PDP demands self-rule. Its self-rule, like the NC autonomy doctrine, means rollback of all the central laws and institutions. It also means demilitarization, semi-independence, equal powers for Pakistan in the Indian Jammu and Kashmir or joint-control or shared sovereignty, irrelevant borders, and even economic independence. Its self-rule, like the autonomy doctrine, also means the state control over the natural resources, including water, which are actually national resources. Besides, the self-rule, like the autonomy doctrine, also means a system under which the people of Jammu province would have no other option but to groan under the Kashmiri yoke. Not only this, the self-rule, like the autonomy doctrine, means the grant of a status under which the state would be autonomous for all practical purposes and Jammu and Ladakh Kashmir's colonies. The self-rule is utterly unacceptable to the people of Jammu province because it runs counter to what they have been striving to accomplish since ages. They are part of the national mainstream and they would remain as such come what may.
The Kashmir-based Tehrik-e-Hurriyat of Syed Ali Shah Geelani, All-party Hurriyat Conference of Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front of Yasin Malik and Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party of Shabbir Ahmad Shah demand merger with Pakistan, implementation of the Musharraf's four-point formula as a first step towards to the final goal and independence from both India and Pakistan. None of these demands is acceptable to the people of Jammu province. Leave alone a handful of communal elements here and there in Jammu province who, like the Kashmiri separatists, still believe in the pernicious two-nation theory and want to take the state back to the medieval age.
The fact of the matter is that the people of Jammu province do not even want the Congress party to share power with the NC and the PDP. They believe that any kind of truck between the Congress and the NC or between the former and the PDP is against the paramount national interest as well as against the interest of the nationalist constituency in the state. They want the Congress party to assert its authority and neutralize the baneful influence of the NC and the PDP on the state polity, economy and society, although they do not really appreciate the political conduct of this so-called all-India political party. For them Congress means the other of all evils facing the state and the nation as a whole.
This is the whole situation. How could the Kashmiri leadership speak for the people of Jammu and Ladakh who have no love lost for the former? Who has given the Kashmiri leaders the mandate to speak on behalf of Jammu and Ladakh? No one in Jammu province and Ladakh has authorized the Kashmiri leadership to speak for these two main provinces. The truth is that there exists a deadlock between Jammu and Kashmir and between the latter and Ladakh. This impasse needs to be broken and this can happen only after Kashmir is segregated from Jammu and Ladakh. If the Kashmiri leadership feels that it can impose its sectarian will on Jammu and Ladakh, then it can be legitimately said that it is living in a fool's paradise. The people of Jammu and Ladakh are not a purchasable commodity. They know how to defeat the Kashmiri leadership. They don't depend on the Jammu-based irresponsible leadership; they depend only on themselves. This is what the post 1947 history of the state clearly suggests. Hence, it would be better if the Kashmiri leadership stops taking the people of Jammu province as well as Ladakh region for granted. |
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