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| Interlocutors dismissed Jammu, Ladakh as irrelevant | | Time For Relentless Struggle | | NEHA
JAMMU, May 25: The much-awaited Jammu & Kashmir interlocutors' report is out. It is patently Kashmir-centric. It has created furore in Jammu. For, it has dismissed Jammu and Ladakh, the state's two other distinct regions, which constitute more than 88 per cent of the state's land area and house almost half of the state's population, as irrelevant; as unfit to lead a life of dignity as Indian nationals. The report contains everything for Kashmir and the followers of a particular religion and dismiss the displaced Kashmiri Hindus, like the people of Jammu and Ladakh, as irrelevant and as ones whose life, like the life of the people of Jammu and Ladakh, is not one of political and economic aspirations. The report contains everything for Kashmir and makes recommendation after recommendation calculated to pander to the communalists and separatists in Kashmir but it has nothing whatsoever to offer to the over 1.5 million refugees who have been inhabiting Jammu since 1947 with a vast majority of them leading a wretched life; with several thousands of them not even enjoying the basic citizenship rights, including the right to vote and education.
An impression is being created by certain commentators that the interlocutors have recommended the establishment of three regional councils - one each for Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh, to be invested with certain legislative, financial and administrative powers and that the proposed regional councils, if established, would mitigate the problems of the people of Jammu and Ladakh and end the menace of discrimination with them. Their assessment is not based on fact. They have sought to mislead the people without actually studying the relevant portions of the report.
It's true that the interlocutors have suggested the formation of three regional councils, one each for Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh. It's also true that the interlocutors have recommended that these proposed regional councils should be invested with "certain" legislative, financial and administrative powers. But it's also true that they have suggested a mechanism that only empowers the state government to delegate some powers to the proposed regional council. The state government, which is Kashmiri-dominated and patently Valley and one-community-centric, will never invest the proposed councils with real legislative powers. Their recommendation is very vague and misleading and it shows that the interlocutors have overlooked the fact that only a full-fledged state exercises legislative powers and that you cannot have in one state three political instruments enjoying or exercising co-equal legislative powers. As for Jammu & Kashmir state is concerned, it has been groaning under the yoke of a political class which has all along opposed even the idea of empowering panchs and sarpanchs or the local-self governing institutions. The Kashmiri-dominated state government would never do anything that empowers the people of Jammu and Ladakh through a definite political instrument invested with legislative, executive and financial powers. For, it considers the people of these two regions as its subjects who are entitled to just crumbs.
What exactly have the interlocutors suggested? "Create three Regional Councils, one each for Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh. (The latter would no longer be a division of Kashmir). Devolve certain legislative, executive and financial powers to them," they have suggested. They have, in addition, recommended that "the constitutional committee (to be appointed by the Government of India to make concrete suggestions based on their report) should be future-oriented in that it should conduct its review solely on the basis of the powers the state needs to address the political, economic, social and cultural interests, concerns, grievances and aspirations of the people in all the three regions of the state - Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh - and all its sub-regions and communities. There is a need to reflect on the quantum of legislative, financial and administrative powers that the state government should delegate to the three regions at all levels of governance - the regional, district and panchayat/municipality".
Any objective investigator would at once vouch for the fact that while the interlocutors have made concrete recommendations for Kashmir aimed at satisfying their separatist and communal urges, they have left everything to the care of the proposed constitutional committee as far as Jammu and Ladakh are concerned. It is time for the people of Jammu and Ladakh to reject out-of-hand the interlocutors' report and prepare themselves for all relentless struggle in order to defeat the evil designs of the interlocutors. It is a must. Not to so would be only to seal their fate for al the time to come and enable the Kashmiri leadership to achieve what they have so far failed to achieve.
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