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| Instrument of accession signed by Hari Singh was no different | | Kamaal Distorting Facts | | RUSTAM
JAMMU, June 6: Kashmiri leadership will never give a true picture of facts to the gullible Kashmiri Muslims. On the contrary, they would go on misleading them by presenting a wrong picture of facts for the sake of personal power and profit. That the Kashmiri leadership would not educate the people about the hard facts again became clear yesterday, when National Conference additional general secretary Mustafa Kamaal said that Maharaja Hari Singh had agreed to accession to Delhi on three points and accused New Delhi of not fulfilling the promises the powers-that-be in New Delhi had made with his father Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah.
Kamaal made these observations while addressing a convention of party workers at Wachi (Anantnag), adding that certain forces hatched a conspiracy to change the nomenclatures of Sadar-e-Riyasat and Wazir-e-Azam and that if the "identity of the state (read Kashmir) is to be protected and "autonomous character of the state" (read Kashmir) to be "restored", there is no other alternative but to restore pre-1953 position in the state or there is no other option but to restrict New Delhi jurisdiction to the state to just three subjects - defence, foreign affairs and communication - leaving the rest to the care of Kashmir. It is a different story that he did not throw light on the role of his father, brother Farooq Abdullah and nephew Omar Abdullah in the "erosion" of the state's "autonomous" status. He did not inform the party workers that his father and brother had compromised their ideology for the sake of power. Nor did he inform them about the kind of politics Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has been playing to retain control over the state power he got by an accident of history in 2009.
Mustafa Kamaal was right to an extent when he said that the instrument of accession signed by Maharaja Hari Singh had restricted the jurisdiction of New Delhi to just defence, foreign affairs and communication. But he should have also told the party workers that the instrument of accession signed by Maharaja Hari Singh was similar to the one signed by the rulers of 560-odd princely states and that the same had been prepared by the State Department of the Government of India. In other words, he should have told the party workers that all the princes had acted in the manner in which Maharaja Hari Singh acted. There was no difference whatsoever.
The Maharajas and Nawabs had, it may be mentioned, signed the instrument of accession at a time when the process of constitution making was still on and the nature of centre-state relations yet to be determined. You cannot discuss the princely state of Jammu & Kashmir in isolation. It was one of the 560-odd princely states. Only the likes of Kamaal or the Kashmiri communalists and separatists have the temerity to discuss Jammu & Kashmir in isolation and they do so much to the people's chagrin.
And, by the way, who has given Mustafa Kamaal the mandate to speak on behalf of the entire population of the state? The people of Jammu and Ladakh have never asked any Kashmiri leader to project their case or speak on their behalf. They want full merger with India and that's it. Kamaal would do well to appreciate the nationalist credentials of the people of Jammu and Ladakh and not utter a word that has the potential of outraging their sensitivities. The people of Jammu and Ladakh are nationalist to the core and they would accept only that political arrangement that not only bridges the gulf between New Delhi and the state but also frees them from the clutches of the Kashmiri leadership.
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