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| Return of displaced Hindus to Kashmir the only problem | | Seditionists Pampered -- I | | Rustam
Jammu, Dec 10: New Delhi has wasted enough of its time in Kashmir and achieved nothing whatsoever. Kashmir continues to simmer and pose a grave challenge to national unity and the very integrity of India. Indeed, the situation has reached a stage where even those constitutionally bound to defend and promote further the nation's paramount interests in the Valley have started tinkering with and breaking provisions stipulated in the constitution, and defending the seditionists, saying "we are a democratic nation and everyone has the right to express his/her opinion even if that lampoons the Indian State".
Even Union Home Minister P Chidambaram doesn't mind Kashmiri separatists advocating their seditious views. His only refrain is that they should preach sedition in a "peaceful" manner. His December 9, 2010 statement in New Delhi to the Parliamentary Consultative Committee for Home - that the contours of a political solution to the Kashmir problem may emerge in the next few months - had set off alarm bells in large parts of the state of Jammu & Kashmir. News reports suggested the minister was open to the dangerous suggestion to amend the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA). He had also waffled on the issue of dealing with "the violence witnessed during protests by residents of the state" which he claimed 'requires deft and sensitive handling'.
The situation has thus climaxed to the point where it has become extremely difficult to distinguish between the seditionists/fanatics and the men at the helm. The startling reason is that both are advancing almost identical arguments and questioning the very presence of New Delhi in the Valley.
It is hardly necessary to differentiate here between those demanding complete independence, and those who fall a step short of it. Suffice it to say that the ultimate objective is the same: another communal partition of India. Suffice it to say that there is no fundamental difference between those who describe Jammu & Kashmir as a "disputed" territory and those who say on the floor of the assembly that the "state has only acceded and not merged with India."
Why has New Delhi failed in Kashmir? It has failed because it has all along recognized and patronized the wrong persons and ignored and despised the nationalist constituency in the Valley. It has at no point of time during all these 64 years of the state's accession tried to diagnose what ails Kashmir and the Kashmir 's polity. The need of the hour in October 1947 was to sideline the seditionists and communalists, but Delhi acted otherwise. It put all its eggs in the basket of the seditionists and communalists.
Thereafter, it never looked back; it never introspected; it never took into consideration the grave evils that followed. The situation remains the same even today even after grave provocation. No action against the seditionists and un-stinted support and full freedom to persons at the helm in the state to undermine Indian sovereignty, jeopardize national unity, and undermine the territorial integrity of India, is the hallmark of New Delhi's policy towards Kashmir.
What is happening these days? Lawmakers come to Kashmir to talk to those responsible for all Indian troubles in the Valley. It appears New Delhi wants them to don the mantle of knights. New Delhi is also not preventing Delhi-based foreign diplomats from going to Kashmir to talk to seditionists and their supporters in and outside the establishment. No wonder then that the emboldened and glorified seditionists are issuing more and more provocative and convoluted statements. Certain "civil society" activists, whose credentials are highly doubtful and who are masquerading as representatives of Indian civil society, are visiting Kashmir at regular intervals and holding debates on Kashmir outside the Valley. They are not only issuing insidious and provocative statements, but are also glorifying the Kashmiri separatists and their savagery. As a matter of fact, they are instigating the people of Kashmir against the government and the Indian State.
As for New Delhi, it has given them a free run of time and the result is that they are openly stoking the fire of hatred and creating schisms in society. New Delhi is simply ducking issues that need to be dealt with resolutely and with amoebic rapidity. New Delhi appears to be in a state of dilemma, unclear and ambivalent about the way ahead.
Enough is enough. New Delhi cannot go on like this any longer. It has to deal with the situation as it prevails in Kashmir. It has to abandon the policy that recognizes only those who are absolutely disloyal, and are 'green' in tooth and claw. (To be continued) |
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