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| Does NC represent aspirations of Jammu, Ladakh? | | Frustrated Beg's Controversial Assertions | | NEHA
JAMMU, June 12: Does the National Conference (NC) represent the aspirations of the entire population of Jammu & Kashmir? Yes, according to the NC MP Mehboob Beg. He on Monday lambasted the interlocutors for Jammu & Kashmir saying they have only tried to "divide Jammu & Kashmir on religious and ethnic lines" and that they have, on the one hand, admitted "erosion of Article 370" and, on the other, said that "clocks can't be set back". But more than that, Beg also shamelessly asserted that the "autonomy resolution passed by the Jammu & Kashmir Assembly in 2000 by three-fourth majority conveys the aspirations of people of all the three regions of the state" and that "to say that autonomy is the demand of only one region is not fair". Beg made these outrageous assertions on the sidelines of a function organized at Sarnal, Anantnag (Kashmir) to mark death anniversary of his father Mirza Afzal Beg, who was humiliated and thrown out of the NC by Sheikh Abdullah and also accused the Government of India of "acting so callously when it comes to addressing the political aspirations of the Kashmiri people".
Do the people of Jammu and Ladakh appreciate the autonomy demand as made by the NC from time to time? Does the NC really represent the aspirations of the entire population of the state? The people of Jammu and Ladakh, barring a few disgruntled elements and believers in the concept of two-nation here and there, have at no point in time during all these 65 years of independence ever vouched for the divisive and communal ideology of the NC. On the contrary, they have consistently opposed it and demanded full merger of the state with India. The fact of the matter is that it is primarily because of the people of Jammu and Ladakh that the Government of India had to bring Jammu & Kashmir under the ambit of hundreds of central laws and institutions like the Supreme Court of India, Comptroller and Auditor General and Election Commission. It is also a fact that it was under pressure from Jammu that Sheikh Abdullah was dethroned and arrested on August 9, 1953 and that Sheikh Abdullah accepted the D D Thakur report in the late 1970s which had said "the needles of the clock cannot be turned back, as the extension of central laws had only helped the state and its people". Political power may be in the hands of Kashmir, but it is the nationalist ideology of Jammu and Ladakh that has all through reigned supreme in the state. Even the interlocutors have acknowledged in their report that the people of Jammu and Ladakh are nationalist to the core and that they have many grievances against the Kashmiri leadership and the Government of India. It must remain a matter of shame that Beg did not refer to the extension of 18-odd central laws to the state when Sheikh Abdullah and his son Farooq Abdullah were at the helm between 1975 and January 1990.
Only a naive would agree with the Beg's ill-designed suggestion that NC represents the aspirations of the people of the state. The NC neither represents the aspirations of Jammu Pradesh nor of Ladakh. These are the two provinces where an overwhelming majority of people has been striving to achieve a dispensation that is independent on Kashmir. Ladakh stands for Union Territory status and Jammu for the state's reorganization, a fact candidly acknowledged by the interlocutors in their report. It is different that they have underlined the need for maintaining the state of Jammu Pradesh, Ladakh and Kashmir as a one political entity only to appease and please the Kashmiri leadership and under the guise of fake secularism. The NC doesn't represent even Kashmir which elects 46 members to the Legislative Assembly. In 2002, the NC could win only 18 seats and its tally remain unchanged in 2008. The fact of the matter is that the PDP won more seats and got more votes in Kashmir, as compared to the NC. There are reasons to believe that the NC would suffer a massive defeat as and when elections are held. It is indeed a sinking ship.
It would be only appropriate to say that Beg, like many, many NC leaders, is a frustrated guy and that he and others of his ilk, like the fanatics like Mohammad Ali Jinnah, want another communal partition of India, something that is not going to happen. Yes, the state is destined to dis-integrate with Jammu and Ladakh becoming full-fledged states within India and under the Indian Constitution, but to say that the Muslim Kashmir would be allowed to go out of India would be only to under-estimate the strength of the Indian nation. It is indeed disturbing that those who have been ruling or misruling the state and exploiting Jammu and Ladakh to the hilt since 1947 are saying that the attitude of New Delhi is negative towards Kashmiri Muslims. Indeed, they are communalist of communalists and reactionary of reactionaries.
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