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| Radha again becomes active, woos J&K legislators | | Delhi Meet On Kashmir - II | | Rustam
JAMMU, Mar 13: As mentioned, the Radha Kumar-sponsored two-day meet on Kashmir in New Delhi was not an ordinary event. It was an event which clearly suggested that moves are afoot to rope in legislators from Jammu and Kashmir so that New Delhi is able to force down the nation's throat an anti-India solution. It was not just a Congress-NC dominated meet. It was a meet in which a number of parliamentarians belonging to different parties took part, thus suggesting that something is poisonous cooking up in New Delhi.
Yes, four BJP and Panthers Party legislators, all hailing from Jammu, were also there in the meeting, but their presence was ensured simply to give legitimacy to what could be legitimately described as an anti-India event. It was basically a meet in which the protagonists of greater autonomy and Musharraf's four-point Kashmir formula reigned supreme. To suggest that the meet on Kashmir took place only because of the initiative of Radha Kumar would be to cross line. She must have been encouraged and funded by certain elements in the Union Government, especially the Home Ministry, to organise the said meet. Undoubtedly, the meet was organised to evolve a broader consensus among the so-called people's representatives so that New Delhi is able to pander to the Kashmiri communalists and separatists and accommodate the Pakistani interests in Kashmir at the cost of the Indian nation.
The speech delivered by Radha Kumar and the presentations made by NC MP Mehboob Beg, CPI-M MLA MY Tarigani and independent MLA Engineer Rashid, all from Kashmir, clearly suggested that they were on the same page. How else should one interpret the Radha's insistence on dialogue with Pakistan and Hurriyat Conference; the NC's Beg's suggestion that the "four-point formula mooted by the former Pakistan President General Parvez Musharraf should be a launching pad to kick-start the process"; the CPI-M's Tarigami's suggestion that "a new constitutional settlement is needed to resolve Kashmir issue and which should be made permanent and the new constitutional settlement should focus on granting substantial self-rule/autonomy and granting constitutional guarantees against its misuse in future"; and the suggestions of Engineer Rashid that "talks should be started with Pakistan and Delhi should develop a consensus on what they wanted to do and offer on Kashmir" and that "channels of communication should also be opened with militant groups and those lodged in jails"?
There was no fundamental difference between what the organiser of the meet said and what the participants from Kashmir suggested. This was disturbing. Even far more disturbing and alarming was the fact that none of the parliamentarians contested what the organiser and the participants in the meet said and suggested. There is no report whatever in the media to suggest that there was any disagreement between the parliamentarians, the organiser and participants fro Kashmir. The only exception perhaps was Ashok Khajuria who reportedly demanded abrogation of Article 370.
If what the organiser and the participants from Kashmir said and suggested was disturbing, the interventions or presentations of legislators like Khajuria, Jugal Kishore and Balwant Singh Mankotia were no less disappointing and disturbing. They should have blasted the votaries of autonomy, self-rule, Musharraf's formula, resumption of India-Pakistan dialogue, dialogue with Hurriyat leaders, new constitutional settlement and dialogue with those lodged in jails, but they didn't really do that. Perhaps, they failed to understand the implications of what was said and suggested by Radha and Kashmiri legislators. These Jammu-based BJP and Panthers Party legislators focused primarily on the issue of discrimination with Jammu province. Indeed, they failed the people of Jammu province, nay the nation, by not calling the organiser's bluff and by not taking on the Kashmiri legislators and their supporters present during the meet.
The moral of the story is that concerted attempts are being made by the likes of Radha Kumar, who enjoy official patronage and support, to unsettle the settled in Kashmir. This is utterly unacceptable. Those seeking to unsettle the settled in the state would do well to remember that the people of Jammu province and Ladakh, besides several religious and ethnic minorities in the state, including the internally-displaced Kashmiri Hindus, their ulterior moves, shall accept only that solution that not only frees them from the cruel clutches of the Kashmiri leadership but that also integrates the state completely into India. Any attempt on the part of anybody to unsettle the settled would simply provoke explosions of portentous dimension in Jammu, Ladakh and the refugee camps. (Concluded) |
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