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| Jammu not a doormat, it will decide its own fate | | Kashmir Issue -- III | | Neha
JAMMU, Jan 11: In 2008, the people of Jammu province engineered a movement of the type and magnitude the nation had not witnesses before or after 1947 in the country. The agenda and stated objectives were clear and unambiguous. The stated objective was that neither Kashmiri leadership nor New Delhi would be allowed to interfere in their religious matters and that the land which had been snatched by the Congress-led government from the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board under pressure from the fanatics would be taken back and again handed over to the Shrine Board for creating facilities for the Amarnath pilgrims. The people observed complete bandh for more than 50 days and across the Jammu province. Over 8 lakh people, including men, women and children courted arrest. During the Non-Cooperation Movement (1920-1922) and Civil Disobedience Movement (1930-1934) the number of jail goers was hardly two lakh, despite the fact that these were pan-India movements. About a dozen people sacrificed their lives for the stated cause which was of national import. Hundreds of others suffered injuries. The authorities resorted to all kind of tactics to sabotage the movement, but with no result. The Army, the Rapid Action Force, the CRPF, and even the state police acknowledged that it was impossible to tackle the people of Jammu province and that they could sustain the movement for any number of months. In fact, those charged with the responsibility of restoring peace in the region raised their hands. It happened because the people of Jammu province didn't take the law of the land into their hands. They suffered from senseless brutalities but persevered and scored a magnificent victory over the communalists and pseudo-scecularists.
Such was the nature of the movement that the Congress-led government in the state fell. New Delhi, which had practically sided with the Kashmiri leadership, both separatist and "mainstream", was brought by the agitating people of Jammu province to their knees. The national and international media for the first time recognized that there also existed in the state Jammu province housing chivalrous and highly committed people. In between, the outraged people of Jammu created an environment that made the Kashmiri leaders like Farooq Abdullah and others and the Jammu-based Congress, NC leaders to go underground to escape the people's wrath. They did not muster courage to venture out of their houses for more than two months; they were so mortally afraid; they were so scared. The fact of the matter is that the people of Jammu province proved once and for all that they are the most important factor in the state's political and social situation and that no one could take them for granted.
One can catalogue here several other glorious examples clearly indicating the resolve of the people of Jammu province to fight not only for their own cause but also for the paramount national cause and defeat the evil designs of those demanding autonomy, self-rule, Pakistan and independence and seeking to enslave them or force down their throat their pernicious solutions. The student agitation in Jammu (1966-1967), the Poonch agitation (1979), the Durbar move agitation, the agitation for the establishment of Jammu Central University and the just-suspended lawyers' strike constitute only a few such examples. (To be continued) |
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