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| Opposition to Indian laws, not to Indian rupees | | Kalhan's Rajtarangini | | EARLY TIMES REPORT | 5/19/2012 11:52:24 AM |
| JAMMU, May 18: Give us more money because we are starving because of paucity of funds. Give us more money because we want to develop our "alienated" land. Give us more money because we want to open more schools, colleges, universities and technical and professional institutions in our land to meet the educational needs of our people. Give us more money because we are the second most corrupt state in the country and we don't know where has the Indian money gone? Give us more money because we want to develop (further the already rather developed) tourism industry in our land. Give us more money because our land is under-developed and extremely backward. Give us more money because we want to further develop agriculture, sericulture and horticulture in our land. Give us more money because we want to preserve a part of our heritage. Give us more funds because we do not have money in our treasury to pay salaries to the employees working with the government and semi-government establishments in the state. Give us more money because our treasury is empty and we cannot pay arrears to our employees. Give us more money because we have not been able to construct more flyovers and bridges in our land to (further) develop (the already highly developed) communication network there. Give us more money because we want to develop and preserve the water-bodies in our land. Give us more money because our ministers need more TA and DA, as they are visiting their respective constituencies almost on a daily basis. Give us more money because we want to take care of (the over-burdened) ministers and we want them to remain happy , pleased and healthy. Give us more money because we want to hike the salaries of our ministers and legislators. Give us money because we want to rehabilitate with honour our respectable gun-totting militants in our land under the healing touch policy. Give us more money because we want to subsidize everything in our land to end the "alienation" of the people there. Give us more money because we need it for several other purposes, including the need to provide a foolproof security cover to the extremists and those waging a war against India.
We want to make it clear that we want only the hard-earned Indian rupees. We do not want to have any kind of political and constitutional truck with New Delhi because such an association alienates (a section of) our society. While we want more and more money from New Delhi to cater to our needs and to the needs of our land, we want New Delhi to pack up and quit our land forthwith. We want New Delhi to quit our land because New Delhi's presence there is illegal and unconstitutional; it has broken umpteen promises. We want New Delhi to quit our land because New Delhi has always played foul with (a section of) our society; it has brought our land under the ambit of certain central laws and institutions using foul means. And so on and so forth.
And, the funds are forthcoming. And, New Delhi is pleased and constantly yielding. And, New Delhi is placing at their disposal whatever they want. As of now New Delhi has announced umpteen financial packages and it is difficult to calculate the money New Delhi has pumped into their land. Prime Minister Inder Kumar Gujral did so. Prime Minister Devegowda did so. Prime Minister V P Singh did so. Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee did so. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has been doping so ever since May 2004, when the Congress-led UPA Government was installed in New Delhi. In fact, every Prime Minister of India did so to keep the particular leadership and a section of society in good humour.
Only recently, the worthy finance minister, who invariably propagates the view that the alienation our people from the national mainstream is because of the New Delhi's desire to maintain close political and constitutional relations with our land, met the Union Finance Minister and urged him to release the State Plan amount withheld by New Delhi. New Delhi had withheld over Rs 1000 crore out of a total of Rs 6000 crore annual plan because the state government had reportedly not submitted utilization certificates in certain cases. There was a report that the Union Finance Minister had assured the state Finance Minister that the funds would soon be released. Why this delay? New Delhi should release the required funds. Any failure on his part to do so would cause more alienation.
There is no need to refer to the land this report is hinting at, as everyone is aware of this land and its leadership and a section of the people who wants New Delhi to pump into their land more and more money and hold itself aloof from the said land. What is all this? Something has gone fundamentally wrong with New Delhi. It, instead of reining in the rebels and opponents of the Indian laws who have been systematically and meticulously queering the Indian pitch in the said land, is pampering them by meeting all of their demands, reasonable or otherwise. This is not the way. Kashmiri historian Kalhan once rightly said: "If you wish to tackle the problem, don't give them more than what they require. If you would give them more then they would turn damras (rebels)." This is precisely what has happened in the land the story reflects on. It's time for New Delhi to read Kalhan's Rajtaringni and act accordingly. |
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