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| Jammu will again cry for justice | | 1060 Jobs to Kashmir | | RUSTAM
JAMMU, Dec 18: People of Jammu province, including youth, have no place whatsoever in the Congress-led UPA Government's scheme of things. There should be no doubt it. The Congress and New Delhi do not consider the people of this province the citizens of the state and the country. They consider them subjects whose life is neither one of political aspirations nor one of economic aspirations. Their life is just one of toil and penury. They are simply destined to groan under the Kashmir yoke and suffer from the New Delhi's deliberate humiliations and taunts. It's New Delhi which is basically responsible for the all round degeneration of the people of Jammu province. It is New Delhi that plays to the tunes of the unreasonable, nay rabidly anti-Jammu, Kashmiri leadership and makes humiliating, invidious and unjust distinctions between the Muslims of Kashmir and the people of Jammu province, including Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs. One can catalogue here hundreds and hundreds of instances to prove that New Delhi and almost all the all-India political outfits have been perpetrating since 1947 injustice after injustice on the people of Jammu province to keep the people of Kashmir in good humour.
The latest example is the yesterday's launch of the first phase of Project Himayat in Kashmir. What happened yesterday? At a function to launch the said project at the convocation centre of Kashmir University in Srinagar, appointment letters of 1,060 youth, who were imparted skill development training under the Prime Minister's package for the unemployed youth of the State, were distributed. Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, Union Minister for Rural Development, Jairam Ramesh, Chairman Economic Advisory Council to Prime Minister, C Rangarajan, Law, Rural Development and Panchayati Raj minister, Ali Mohammad Sagar and officers of both the State and Central Governments were present during the function.
Speaking on the occasion, Omar Abdullah said, "I am glad that the recommendations of Rangarajan committee about the skill development of 150,000 youth have been accepted. We have seen that recommendations are thrown into the dust bin but that has not been the case here. As the situation turned normal after last year's unrest there were people who said there is no need to carry forward this project. Credit goes to the Union Development Minister for remaining steadfast in this regard".
As far Jairam Ramesh, he said that the "appointees would work in sectors like hotels, retail business, insurance and mobile companies at places like Srinagar, Jammu, New Delhi, Chandigarh and Shimla…The track record of the appointees should be followed so that further skill development for them takes place. This is a small step and it is a part of process whereby one lakh youth would be given training under the skill development programme. The State Government should support us by providing both the training and hostel facilities for the trainees. It is important that more call centres open up in the State so that the youth are placed there".
Rangarajan also spoke on the occasion and, among other things, said: "This programme is being run by Government (of India) in close collaboration with private institutions…Big companies like Infosys and TCS would come over here (Kashmir) adding that for this the economy must grow at a good pace. The distribution of appointment letters is a first step in a giant process".
Did those who came to Srinagar all the way from New Delhi to hand over a single appointment letter to any Jammu youth? It can be said that all the 1060 youth were from Kashmir. The fact that the function for distribution of appointment orders was organized In Kashmir, and not in Jammu where the secretariat became functional on November 9, does suggest that all the privileged youth belonged to the already rather pampered Kashmir Valley.
The distribution of appointment letters in Kashmir to Kashmiri youth alone would certainly evoke a negative response in Jammu province. Why not? The so-called Jammu-based leaders would surely issue press statements against the yesterday's anti-Jammu event. The angry youth would also do the same because the provocation is grave.
But the question is: Will the Jammu's negative response make the policy-planners in New Delhi change their attitude and refashion their approach towards its people? The answer has to be a big NO. The people of Jammu province have been denouncing the New Delhi's negative attitude towards them and crying for justice since October 1947, but with no result. More the people of this province cried for justice, more the injustices New Delhi at the behest of the Kashmiri leadership inflicted upon them. This trend would continue because neither New Delhi nor the Kashmiri leadership would listen to the woeful tales of the people of Jammu province. This is a fact that needs to be recognized.
There is but only one way in which the people of Jammu province could obtain justice and that is by snapping all of their ties with Kashmir and by telling New Delhi enough is enough. There is no other way. |
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