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| Jammu wants separation from Kashmir | | Wrong Assessment | | Neha
JAMMU, Dec 17: Vested interests in the state and elsewhere in the country assert that no one in the state wants trifurcation of the state. Their assessment is as wrong as it is communally and politically motivated. The fact of the matter is that an overwhelming majority of people of Jammu province, like the people of Ladakh, wants the state to be reorganized on a regional basis forthwith so that each region becomes a master of its own fate. They may not be using the term trifurcation, but they are consistently demanding reorganization of the state. Reorganization of the state would mean trifurcation and nothing else.
Those who say that the people of Jammu are not for the state's reorganization are blissfully ignorant of the situation as it has been prevailing in this province since decades. It would be better if they look at the 2002 and 2008 results of the assembly elections to know what the people of Jammu province wanted. In the 2002 assembly elections, the people of Jammu province returned to the assembly no less than 23 legislators belonging to the parties which had held out a solemn promise that, if returned to power, they would work for the reorganization of the state's politico-administrative set-up. The Congress and the BJP had promised regional development board and regional council, respectively. The Panthers Party had promised reorganization of the state. The people had also elected two independent candidates who had promised statehood for Jammu province. In the 2008 assembly elections, the people of Jammu province returned to the assembly 28 legislators. They voted for them because they had fought elections on the planks ranging from the state's reorganization to amendment in the state constitution calculated to set up an adequately empowered regional council in Jammu to statehood. Had the parties like the Congress, the BJP, the Panthers Party and the Jammu State Morcha not promised reorganization, the people of Jammu province would have rejected outright the candidates belonging to these parties. This is a hard fact that needs to be recognized. These parties knew what the people of Jammu province wanted and, hence, the commitment in their respective election manifestos. The story of Leh district in Ladakh was, and is, no different. The people of Jammu and Ladakh are fed up with the Kashmiri-dominated and Kashmir-centric politico-administrative and constitutional structure.
If those asserting that none in the state still feel that the people of Jammu province are not for the state's reorganization, then they have another alternative to ascertain the people's wish. The alternative is referendum. Only certain vested interests are opposing the idea of trifurcation as they do not represent Jammu. They are agents of the Kashmiri leaders. The Government of India needs to set up the states reorganization commission clearly suggesting that the commission shall also take into consideration the ground realities in Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh. Jammu and Kashmir State perhaps is the only State that needs immediate reorganization considering the fact that there is nothing whatever common between Jammu and Kashmir and Kashmir and Ladakh and that the state consists of three disparate regions with two of them - Jammu and Ladakh fighting for empowerment and integration and Kashmiri leadership struggling for separation from India, doing all that it could to destroy Jammu and Ladakh politically, economically, socially and culturally and seeking to create in these two provinces the Kashmir-like situation in order to implement and enforce its nefarious agenda. |
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