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| Congress can't give any political concession to Kashmir | | Jammu Factor | |
Rustam
Jammu, Jan 2: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is a weak person. It's true. He wants to cultivate Pakistan by addressing some of its concerns. But he is helpless. He can't do so. He wants to appease or please Kashmiri leadership at the cost of the Indian nation. But he just can't afford to do so. He can't meet the demand as put forth by the NC (read greater autonomy or semi-independence). He also can't meet the demand as put forth by the PDP (read self-rule or quasi-independence, plus India-Pakistan joint-control over Jammu & Kashmir). His dispensation wants to enter into a dialogue with Kashmiri separatists like Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Yasin Malik. But he has nothing to offer to them because he can't offer anything to them. These separatists stand for merger with Pakistan and independence.
The AICC president and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, Home Minister P Chidambaram, External Affairs Minister SM Krishna and others of their ilk in New Delhi also share the views of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. They would not mind going with him. In fact, they are with the Prime Minister, who has let down India a number of times after 26/11 Mumbai deadly terrorist attack and given the international community to understand that he is for concluding a truce with Pakistan at whatever cost. The Prime Minister has, as everyone knows, publicly stated that he would feel more than satisfied if he could harmonize Indo-Pak relations during his reign and end unrest in the troubled Kashmir Valley.
The point I am trying to make out is that the Indian political establishment under the influence of the Prime Minister, the UPA chairperson, the Home Minister and the External Affairs Minister would not mind jeopardizing the paramount sovereign interests in order to further placate the aggressor Pakistan and the separatist and communal Kashmiri leadership. But its main problem is that it can't do anything to unsettle the settled in this sensitive border state. It can offer financial and employment packages to Kashmir, but it can't give any political concession to the Kashmiri leadership, which wants to weaken the constitutional and political bonds between the state and New Delhi.
The Prime Minister and those who matter or control the Indian political establishment can't give any political concession to Kashmir because there exists in the country's political scheme of things Jammu province as well as Ladakh. Jammu and Ladakh have been acting as a millstone around the Kashmir's neck and not allowing the Kashmiri leadership to have their own way, notwithstanding the fact that the people of these two regions have suffered enormously because of their deep commitment to the national cause. The Prime Minister and others of his ilk in New Delhi would never be in a position to bypass them.
Why only the people of Jammu and Ladakh. The entire nation is there standing like a rock between those who want major political concessions for Islamabad and Kashmir and those opposed to them. The three most recent developments clearly suggested that the nation's attitude has changed and that the nation is now no more willing to tolerate anything non-sense and anything that, according to its view, is against the interests of the country. The case in point is the rise of Anna Hazare factor and its impact on the country's polity and society, the humiliating defeat of the Union Government's move on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the retail trade in India and the remarkable unity among all the political parties, barring the Congress, the Nationalist Congress Party, the National Conference, the Rashtriya Lok Dal and the All-India Muslim League, on the issue of appointment of Lokayuktas in the states.
This is the current political scenario, which appears quite inspiring. So, the Jammu factor, the Ladakh factor, the Anna factor and the fast-changing political scenario across the country should be taken to mean the rise of a situation in the country that has weakened the Prime Minister and the AICC president to a considerable extent. One can say with some authority that Kashmiri leadership will not be in a position to extract any concession from the defeated Prime Minister and defeated Congress party. The position of the Prime Minister and the AICC president, plus AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi, would become more untenable after March 4, 2012, when the Election Commission of India would announce who has won and who has lost the assembly election in the five states, including Uttar Pradesh and Punjab. |
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