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| 1975 Indira-Sheikh Accord promoted fissiparous tendencies | | Bhim Absolutely Wrong | |
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JAMMU, May 13: Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party (JKNPP) chairman Bhim Singh was absolutely right when he on Friday asserted that the association of the Congress with the National Conference (NC) would only prove harmful for the former and that the Congress ministers must come out of the coalition government headed by Omar Abdullah who, he said, has "revived anti-national elements in the state". "Omar Abdullah (is) working as an agent of some hidden powers, has revived the old slogan of anti-national elements, buried Indira-Sheikh Accord and given a new lease of life to the communal elements," he had inter-alia said.
There is no doubt that the association of the Congress with the NC has made the former quite unpopular in the state in general and Jammu provinces, its core constituency, in particular. The reasons are obvious. Two of the reasons are the NC's insistence on greater autonomy and its negative attitude towards Jammu, New Delhi, Indian Constitution, Indian Army, paramilitary forces, anti-terror laws and so on. The people of Jammu Pradesh and Ladakh hate the NC's regressive and communal ideology from the core of their heart, as they stand for democratic and liberal values, territorial integrity of India and their real and effective empowerment.
Bhim Singh also did a right thing by underlining the need of mobilizing public opinion in all the three regions of the state against the NC-led coalition government and create an environment that neutralizes fissiparous tendencies and promotes nationalist forces in the state. However, he was absolutely wrong when he suggested that the 1975 Indira-Sheikh Abdullah Accord had "buried the anti-national elements in the state".
The truth is that the 1975 Accord had negated all that the Sheikh's successors like Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad and G M Sadiq had done to restore peace in the state by taking on anti-India elements. It would not be an exaggeration to say that it was Bakshi and Sadiq who hastened the process of the state's integration into the national mainstream by allowing New Delhi to bring Jammu and Kashmir under the ambit of several central laws and institutions, including the Supreme Court, Election Commission and Comptroller and Auditor-General. Sadiq even merged the NC with the Congress and established the institutions of governor and chief minister doing away with the offices of Sadar-e-Riyasat and Wazir-e-Azam. Sadiq did all this in 1965.As for the 1975 Accord, it not only brought down the Congress-led government in the state and provided for a review of the central laws but also brought back to power Sheikh Abdullah who only promoted fissiparous tendencies, widened the gulf between Jammu and Kashmir and New Delhi and harmed Jammu Pradesh and its people. The Sheikh had challenged the accession of the state before 1953 and thought of creating a Switzerland-type independent Kashmir" and he sought to keep the state away from the national mainstream after 1975. His policies ran counter to the policies which had been evolved and implemented by his predecessors. Farooq Abdullah, who succeeded his father, did the same. In fact, his government adopted a resolution demanding semi-independence from India. The autonomy committee report that his government adopted contemplated greater autonomy, bordering on virtual sovereignty. The present Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has been simply treading the path which his grandfather and father treaded. There is no difference between him and the Sheikh and the patron of NC and Union Minister for Renewable Energy. He is as vocal as the Sheikh and Farooq Abdullah were. It is a different story that the Congress, which had dismissed the Sheikh from the office of Wazir-e-Azam and got him arrested in 1953 on the charge of sedition and dismissed the government of Farooq Abdullah in 1986 for similar reasons, is flirting with the NC for reasons not difficult to fathom. Will Bhim Singh look back and revise his stand on the highlycontroversial 1975 Accord which has only brought political instability and promoted politics of autonomy, based on sectarian considerations?
He cannot mislead the people of Jammu Pradesh by suppressing facts and eulogizing something that deserves condemnation from one and all. |
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