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| Resolving issues in Jammu & Kashmir | | BSP & Jammu | | NEHA
JAMMU, June 11: The Jammu & Kashmir National Panthers Party (JKNPP) and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) are the two formations in Jammu & Kashmir which have definite roadmaps as far as the resolution of the age-old Jammu issue is concerned. The JKNPP has been advocating reorganization of the state on regional and underlining the need for the creation of three legislative assemblies, one each for Jammu Pradesh, Kashmir and Ladakh. The BSP, on the other hand, surprised everyone by demanding trifurcation of Jammu & Kashmir into Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh States. In fact, the BSP for the first time demanded trifurcation of the state when its local leadership under party president Tulsi Dass Langeh met the visiting interlocutors last year. It told the interlocutors that there was no other alternative but to trifurcate the state in order to resolve the issues confronting different people inhabiting different regions of the state.
On May 7 this year, the BSP yet again reiterated its demand seeking the state's trifurcation. That eventful day Narinder Kashyap, national general secretary of the BSP and Member Parliament, along with BSP state president, Tulsi Dass Langeh, told reporters that his party was of the "considered view" that the State of Jammu and Kashmir could not be maintained as one political unit, as the "three regions of the State have different geographical conditions, different cultures and different languages as well as different living patterns" and that "they have such vast territorial areas that it is difficult" to cover them, as "some of the areas are quite inaccessible, difficult, and even treacherous". He suggested that "reorganization of the State by creating separate States of Jammu and Kashmir and granting Union Territory status to Ladakh" is the only viable solution to the problems facing the people inhabiting different regions.
As a mater of fact, Kashyap strongly urged the NC-Congress coalition government to "pass a resolution in this regard" in the assembly and "send the same to Centre for approval" so that the necessary steps could be taken to reorganize the state's polity on a regional basis and ensure all round development of this part of the country. "Equal development of all the three regions of the State is possible only if it is reorganized," he asserted, and very rightly. Kashyap, at the same time, also revealed that the BSP and the people of Jammu (read the local BSP leadership and party workers) "have also passed a resolution regarding reorganization of the State in his presence and that the same was approved by (national BSP president and former UP Chief Minister) Ms Mayawati". The most significant aspect of his whole interaction with reporters was his disclosure that he himself had raised the "issue of the state's reorganization in the Rajya Sabha which was supported by other parties also" - something the national media didn't report. It should have been reported, as it was not an ordinary intervention in the Rajya Sabha.
Any way, the national general secretary of the BSP - apart from reflecting on the irreconcilable contradictions in the State -- advanced a number of sound arguments in defence of the demand that he put forth on behalf of the central leadership of the BSP. He, for example, said that "the Civil Secretariat functions for six months in Kashmir and six months in Jammu" in a year and "crores of rupees are spent on moving offices from one place to another. By creating separate States of Jammu and Ladakh and granting UT status to Ladakh this money could be saved and utilized for the betterment of the people of all the three regions".
But more than that, Kashyap said that the "BSP is wedded to the ideology of Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar" and added that "after taking over as Union Law Minister he had suggested in 1952 that the issue of J&K should be resolved once for all otherwise it will turn into a grave problem some day". Dr Ambedkar was, it needs to be underlined, a votary of small states, as he believed that establishment of small states alone would ensure "overall development of the country". Besides, Dr Ambedkar had opposed the Sheikh Abdullah's demand for special status. He had told the Sheikh: "You want India and Indians to defend Kashmir. You want Kashmir and Kashmiris to exercise all rights all over India. But you do not want India and Indians to exercise all rights in Kashmir. I am Law Minister of India and I cannot be a party to an act of betrayal of national interest".
Now that the BSP has taken the novel plunge and demanded reorganization of the State, it is time for the parties like the JKNPP, Jammu State Morcha (JSM), Jammu State Morcha (Secular) and similar other parties to rise to the occasion and join hands with one another. Since their demand is the same, they should not function as separate groups. In fact, the people of Jammu Pradesh want all the Jammu-centric formations to work together to end the age-old Kashmiri domination over the people of Jammu Pradesh. As for the BSP, it should also take the required initiative so that the tated goal is achieved at the earliest.
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