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| Biased Delhi, Biased Congress, Biased Kashmiri Ruling Elite | | Broken Hearted Firdous | | Rustam
JAMMU, Apr 28: Militant-turned-commentator and "peace-monger" Firdous Syed alias Babar Badar, who also served the Kashmiri cause as NC MLC not-so-long-ago, is a broken-hearted man. It appears. He is feeling disillusioned. He is neither happy with New Delhi nor with those ruling the State, including those belonging to the NC and Congress party. He finds nothing in Kashmir that could be admired. On the contrary, he finds in Kashmir everything that makes him conclude that the "space is shrinking for poor Kashmiris" (read Muslims).
That he is singing in the strain of the swan could be seen from what he wrote in his latest essay on Kashmir, essay titled "Disempowered people", which appeared only today in a local daily. Why is he feeling disillusioned and helpless? Why is he feeling sad? He is feeling sad and disillusioned because the Trans World Muslim University Bill has lapsed. He is feeling sad because the "Speaker of the Assembly" hardly a few days back gave a false "assurance" to "protesting opposition members" that the Trans World Muslim University" has not lapsed; it is still pending in the Upper House (Legislative Council). "The establishment of Trans World Muslim University would not have caused havens to fall," he says.
He is feeling sad and disillusioned because "the Congress as a second thought stalled the passage of the Bill in the Upper House"; because "the proposed Bill was consigned to the joint select committee of the both Houses" and because "the joint select committee was never created as a result the Bill lapsed and was given a silent burial". He is feeling sad because "the authorities are contemplating to issue an ordinance to protect Hindu temples in the Kashmir valley"; because the State Government is contemplating to issue an ordinance despite the fact the "temples in the valley are" not "really facing any threat"; and because the "so much of a tearing hurry only shows the salve mentality of the rulers (read Chief Minister Omar Abdullah), lest they not be described as less secular in the Delhi Durbar". He also asks: "What about the rights of the majority community?"
He is feeling sad and disillusioned because he feels that the "rights of the majority (read Kashmiri Muslims) have since long been compromised" and because "nobody seems to be concerned about the sensitivities of the Muslim majority of Jammu and Kashmir" (read Muslims of Kashmir and the likes of Babar Badar who hail from the erstwhile Doda district). "Let the notion…be abandoned that the Constitutional status of J&K is in limbo. Let us profess only what we are expected to believe as docile people. Even as harmless conformist creatures we are destined to behave, why then the rights of Kashmiri people are trampled always under the heavy boots," he also says while reflecting on the causes of his sadness and disillusionment.
He is feeling sad and disillusioned because the "ongoing debate about the choice of the next DGP primarily is confined to two officers, one originally" belongs to "Hyderabad" and other…to Bihar" and because "a Kashmiri Muslim… will never get the chance to command the police in future". He is feeling sad and disillusioned because the authorities "will never repeal AFSPA", "despite all the claims of normalcy returning back"; because the authorities are not "paying any attention to the cases of disappeared persons and grave human rights violations"; because certain interests are raising the "issue of Pandit migration…only to put blame on the majority"; because the "Greater Autonomy Bill passed by the two-third majority of the Assembly was rejected within a minute"; because certain elements "drum up the need for three regional councils day in and day out"; because "Urdu, the official language, has been rendered orphan in the Valley and fully discarded in Jammu and Leh"; because "five Cabinet Ministers belong to Jammu district plus the Chairman of the (Legislative) Council" and the "erstwhile Doda district has no representation at all and only a MoS comes from Poonch and Rajouri".
He is feeling sad and disillusioned because the "Congress" will always be "part" of the State Government; because "economic dependability of Kashmir has been made to increase tremendously"; because "NHPC has been given a free run to plunder the water resources"; and because "statements like `sky is the limit' and `Insaniyat Ke Dyray Mein' (were all) "hollow". "The rapid disempowerment of Kashmir an ongoing process, besides the social engineering, is the price Kashmir inevitably has to pay for the failed rebellion", he also says with a very heavy heart. He is also feeling sad and disillusioned because he feels that "the ever shrinking space of Kashmir" has become "an ugly reality".
One would surely agree with Firdous when he says that the erstwhile Jammu district is over-represented in the Cabinet and that Doda, Kishtwar, Ramban, Poonch and Rajouri districts have not been given due representation in the Council of Ministers. But one would certainly reject outright all other suggestions he made in his essay because all these suggestions are nothing but a manifestation of his brazen communal approach to the issues facing the people of the State. No one would endorse his suggestion that the Kashmiri space is shrinking. It is not shrinking; it is expanding with each passing day. Kashmir has not only manipulated everything in Kashmir but it has also established its stranglehold over Jammu province where the people have been crying for justice since decades with the authorities in the State and New Delhi not doing anything whatever to mitigate their hardship and woes. But I am sure Firdous would not look all these facts in the face; he would continue to preach ideology he has preached all through. He has discarded the gun but not the ideology that had induced him to take recourse to violent methods in the late 1980s or early 1990s. Such an approach will not do. For, Kashmir doesn't represent the entire state; it only represents a minority view which is regressive. |
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