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| Kashmiri leadership and fanatics responsible for trust deficit | | Harassment of K Youth -- I | | Rustam
jammu, Dec 19: "You want India and Indians to defend Kashmir. You want Kashmir and Kashmiris to exercise all rights all over India. But you do not want India and Indians to exercise similar rights in Kashmir. I am Law of Minister of India. I cannot be a party to such an act of betrayal of national interest". Chairman of the Indian Constitution Drafting Committee and Law Minister BR Ambedakar told National Conference President and J&K Wazir-e-Azam Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah in 1949, when the latter met with him and urged him to support his demand for special status for the state on the ground that it was Muslim-majority.
The attitude of the Kashmiri leadership and fanatics in the Valley has not undergone any change whatsoever. They continue to consider the entire state as their sole preserve; they continue to pursue policies and air views which discourage the fellow Indians to come to the state for obtaining jobs under the state government or for settling in the state with proprietary rights. They created in Kashmir a situation in and immediately after 1947 that again set-in-motion the process of migration. The process ended with the wholesale exodus of the miniscule minority of Kashmiri Hindus and thousands of Sikhs from Kashmir in early 1990. They converted Kashmir into a region belonging to the followers of one particular religion. It is not a secret.
The nature of the Kashmiri intolerance towards the non-Kashmiris could be determined from what happened in the Valley between June and August 2008, when the nation witnessed in Jammu a massive movement against those who had tinkered with the High Court verdict and snatched the Baltal land (Kashmir) from the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board. The provoked and outraged people of Jammu province engineered the movement taking into consideration the vicious campaign which had been unleashed by Syed Ali Shah Geelani and others of his ilk and supported by almost all the so-called mainstream Kashmiri leaders, including Farooq Abdullah and Omar Abdullah. The immediate fall-out of the anti-land movement in Kashmir was the forced exodus from the Kashmir Valley of those who had come to the Valley from different parts of the country to seek means of livelihood or petty jobs. They included plumbers, mesons, labourers, electricians, and so on. The fanatics and the so-called freedom fighters in Kashmir perpetrated all kind of senseless brutalities on them and confronted them with a choice between exodus and persecution. The authorities watched these barbaric acts as a mute spectator and the result was that almost all the non-Kashmiris migrated from the valley to escape persecution, harassment, torture, and even death. Mercifully, neither New Delhi nor the otherwise very alert and vocal media took cognizance of what the fanatics did to the non-Kashmiris.
Two days ago (December 17), Chief Minister Omar Abdullah talked about the harassment of Kashmiri youth and other Kashmiri Muslims seeking jobs or working in different parts of the country. "We the people of State are very unfortunate because the things never headed in right direction for us. While we were facing brunt due to militancy and disruptive activities the people living in other parts of the country were progressing by leaps and bounds. When the situation somewhat returned normal here, there was economic recession in the country…The parents of the youth who have been given appointment letters today are worried about the safety of their dear ones. I am also worried about their security since there are people who look upon all the Kashmiris as militants. For God's sake don't consider every Kashmiri as a militant and let you move beyond it…Kashmiris should not be looked upon with suspicion. The common masses in Kashmir are peace loving and don't believe in disruptive activities. Un-necessary harassment of Kashmiris should be avoided so that they have faith in the system existing in the country…He has already talked to Chief Ministers of various States in a bid to ensure that no harassment is caused to Kashmiris living outside the State…People of the country should start believing in the people of Kashmir (as) everyone is not in favour of militancy in Kashmir…Kashmiris living outside the State should not be targeted on important national days like Republic Day and Independence Day adding…This sends wrong signals to the people of Valley…All the good work done by the Central Government for the benefit of people gets washed away once fingers are pointed towards involvement of Kashmiris in any subversive activity," he, among other things, said. |
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