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| Jammu not a doormat, it will decide its own fate | | Kashmir Issue -- II | | Neha
jammu, Jan 10: As mentioned, Jammu province is neither Kashmir's colony nor a doormat and bridge between Kashmir and New Delhi. The people of Jammu province have not given the mandate to New Delhi to decide their fate. Nor have they given this mandate to the Kashmiri leadership. They are the masters of their own fate and it is their prerogative to go where they want to. No one can impose the Kashmiri leadership's will on them. Nor can New Delhi force down their throat a solution that is based on the demands being put forth by the Kashmiri leadership. Likewise, they are vehemently opposed to a solution that divides Jammu province along the River Chenab on communal lines. Pir Panjal is the natural barrier between Jammu province and Kashmir and it will remain so infinitely. They are for the unity and integrity of their province and for a dispensation that is all-embracing, genuinely representative and truly democratic and liberal.
The people of Jammu province are cosmopolitan in their outlook and behaviour by nature and conviction and they have never allowed the Kashmiri leadership to disturb communal amity in the province or foment anti-India troubles in the region. Leave aside a few sporadic attempts made by the Kashmiri leadership in the areas of the Jammu province where the Muslims constitute a substantial chunk of population to provoke anti-India explosions, but the people comprehensively defeated all these attempts. Of course, there are certain disgruntled elements here and there in the region, but they cannot vitiate the atmosphere in the Jammu province. For, Jammu province is an oasis of communal harmony, brotherhood and peaceful co-existence and which has cheerfully accepted migrants and refugees of all varieties. In other words, the people of Jammu province have cheerfully and happily accommodated all the persecuted and hounded out communities, all victims of fanaticism. This is Jammu province and it will remain so. There should be no doubt about it.
The people of Jammu province have demonstrated their courage of conviction at regular intervals and defeated comprehensively the evil designs of the Kashmiri leadership. In 1952-1953, they defeated the Sheikh Abdullah's move to de-link Kashmir from India. Sheikh Abdullah was dethroned and arrested. During 1975-1979, they defeated the Sheikh's move to get the central laws withdrawn from the state. Such was the situation in the Jammu province that the Sheikh had to accept the D D Thakur report which had said "the needles of the clock cannot be turned back" and reject outright his son-in-law G M Shah's report that had suggested wholesale withdrawal of the central laws and central institutions from the state. Ghulam Nabi Kochak, a cabinet colleague of Sheikh Abdullah, was with Shah that time. He was one of the three members of the Cabinet Sub-committee constituted for the purpose of looking into the central laws and suggesting which of the central laws could be withdrawn from the state.
The Kashmiri leadership would also not forget 1998 and 2008. In 1998, the people of Jammu province observed 17-day-long continuous bandh, paralyzed the functioning of the state government for 67 days, from February 28 to May 7, and made the government of Farooq Abdullah accept their demands. The people of the province had brought Farooq Abdullah to their knees. Establishment of Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University at Katra and Agricultural University at R S Pura were the immediate fall-outs of that agitation. The 1999 Singhal Committee report was another fall-out of the 1998 student agitation. The Singhal Committee report recommended that all the seats available with the Jammu-based technical and professional institutions, including medical and engineering colleges, shall be the sole preserve of the Jammu youth and all the seats available with the Kashmir-based technical and professional institutions the sole preserve of the Kashmiri youth. In other words, it had recommended admission policy as envisaged by the Jammu and Kashmir Universities Act of 1969. It is a different story that the Jammu leadership defeated the people of the province in general and the Jammu youth in particular by not forcing the state government to accept and implement the just Singhal Committee report. (To be continued) |
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