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| People of Jammu and Kashmir cannot live together? | | Interlocutors' Report & Jammu's Attitude | | Neha
Jammu,May 26: The strong reaction that the interlocutors' report has evoked in Jammu has once again vindicated those who had been saying for years that the people of Jammu and Kashmir could not live together, as they professed different ideologies and viewed India differently. The Kashmiri leadership has all along been a votary of limited accession, whereas the people of Jammu and Ladakh have all along been votaries of close relations with India. It is not a secret that the Kashmiri Muslim leadership is divided into four groups demanding autonomy, self-rule, independence and merger with Pakistan. It is also too well-known that the watchword and battle-cry of the people of Jammu and Ladakh was, and continues to be, complete merger with India and application of the Indian Constitution to the State in full, barring Article 370 under which the State enjoys a special status in the Union and have the right to have a separate constitution and a separate flag. The reaction the interlocutors' report evoked in Jammu after the report became public clearly demonstrated that the attitude of the people of Jammu has not changed a bit even after 65 years of the State's accession to India and that they will never accept any solution that tinkers even slightly with Indian sovereignty and territorial integrity or that drives the State away from the political and constitutional organization of India.
It is not for the first time that the people of Jammu have reacted to demonstrate their commitment to India by opposing tooth and nail the pro-separatist and divisive recommendations as contained in the interlocutors' report. They had reacted violently during 1952-1953 and 1975 and 1977 as well. During 1952-1953, they reacted when it appeared to them that the then Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru could compromise the Indian stand on Jammu and Kashmir to please the Kashmiri Muslim leadership, especially the likes of Sheikh Abdullah who had never considered Kashmir a part of India. I am referring to the Ek Nissan, Ek Vidhan and Ek Pradhan Movement in Jammu which not only resulted in the collapse of talks between Nehru and Sheikh but also in the dismissal and arrest of the Sheikh. Ladakh, too, had, like Jammu, opposed the talks between Nehru and the Sheikh and demanded separation from Kashmir.
During 1975-1977, the people of Jammu again reacted when they felt that the Sheikh might use the 1975 Indira Gandhi-Sheikh Abdullah Accord, under which he had got the office of Chief Minister in February 1975, to force the Government of India to withdraw all the central laws and institutions extended to the state after August 1953. Their fear was well-founded and their reaction forced the Sheikh to go with those (read the then Deputy Chief Minister DD Thakur) who wanted the state to remain under the jurisdiction of the extended central laws and institutions and reject those who thought otherwise, including his own son-in-law GM Shah. Shah, like the Sheikh, was an ardent believer in the concept of greater autonomy, bordering on sovereignty. The Sheikh took a complete U-turn to retain control over the State power he had got after years, as also to cool the tempers in Jammu and Ladakh by going with DD Thakur who had said "needles of clock cannot be turned back".
Jammu today is again witnessing an almost similar situation, thus establishing once yet again that the people of this province, like the people of Ladakh and displaced Kashmiri Hindus, will not deviate from the path they consciously chose to tread from the day the State acceded to India. This is the ground reality that needs to be appreciated by one and all. One thing is clear: Jammu and Ladakh are the two most crucial factors in the State's political situation; the solution has to be such that is acceptable to them. Since the Kashmiri leadership belongs to a school of thought that preaches sedition and promotes worst form of sectarianism, the people of Jammu and Ladakh cannot afford to have any kind of truck with them. What, then, is the way out? The way out is separation. First separate Jammu and Ladakh from Kashmir and then talk to all the Kashmiri leaders, including those representing the displaced Kashmir Hindus, to find what could satisfy them. There is no other way out. To think of any other option would be only to create more problems than resolving the existing ones. |
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