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| Politics of emotional blackmail ruining J&K | | Asli Healing Touch | |
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, June 17: Interlocutors' report on Jammu & Kashmir is being criticized on a daily basis in the state for varied reasons, which are too well-known. Hence, there is no need to report again and again why do the people of Kashmir and those of Jammu and Ladakh, plus the internally-displaced Kashmiri Hindus and various categories of refugees, express themselves against the interlocutors and the report which they submitted some eight months ago.
It is, however, imperative to bring to the notice of the general public what could be construed as the interlocutors' blistering attack on the state's ruling elite, a fact hardly any critic of the report has recognized and appreciated. The interlocutors have undoubtedly failed to appreciate the national imperatives, particularly in Kashmir, and made recommendations which are not based on their findings, but they have done justice to their assignment on one count at least. Take, for example, what they have said in the report about the causes of unrest in the state. According to them, some of the fundamental factors responsible for the prevailing unrest and discontent are "systematic denial of their democratic rights", "rigged elections", "dismissal of elected governments and installation of pliant ones", "mis-governance", "pervasive corruption among the political and bureaucratic elites", "lack of quality education and public health services"; "poor physical infrastructure", "woefully inadequate job opportunities, especially for skilled and educated youth", "mushroom growth of religious extremism" in Kashmir.
What the interlocutors said in the report was what the suffering people of the state, including the unemployed and pushed to the wall youth, used to say. Indeed, these were, and are, the causes responsible for most of the troubles in Kashmir. Had the Kashmiri ruling elite and its mentor, New Delhi, allowed genuine democracy to flower, the situation in the state would have been altogether different. It would have been like the one which has been prevailing in Tamil Nadu, where the demand for secession was very strong and where the critics of New Delhi burnt the Indian Constitution a number of times.
Credit for the restoration of faith of the people of Tamil Nadu in the national mainstream goes to Jawaharlal Nehru, who, ironically, did all that he could to empower the Kashmiri ruling elite and communalists to subvert democracy and deprive the people of the state even the normal civil and political rights. Nehru behaved like a statesmen while dealing with Tamil Nadu and he and his team did all that they could to enable the people there to have a government of their own choice. The attitude of New Delhi to Tamil Nadu has not undergone any change whatsoever.
As for Jammu & Kashmir, New Delhi's attitude remains unchanged. It pampered and promoted the undesirable in 1947 and it has been following the same policy ever since then overlooking the real causes responsible for our troubles in Kashmir as well as Jammu Pradesh and Ladakh, thus aggravating further the already rather complex situation in the state. The fact is New Delhi's policy towards Jammu & Kashmir is not based on the interests of the people; it is based on the misguided notion that satisfying the Kashmiri ruling elite would be the same as satisfying and conciliating the people.
It is the New Delhi's support for the Kashmiri leadership's politics of emotional blackmail and threat that has ruined Jammu & Kashmir. New Delhi would do well to take cognizance of the interlocutors' attack on the Kashmiri ruling elite and take some substantial corrective measures. It would also do well to realize that what Chief Minister Omar Abdullah yesterday described as "Asli healing touch" is actually the part of the same politics of emotional blackmail, deceit and threat which the Kashmiri leadership has been playing since 1947 to enrich itself and enjoy power and deprive the people of their fundamental rights. Omar Abdullah yesterday ridiculed the PDP leadership by saying that "it is NC-Congress coalition government which framed and implemented the rehabilitation policy making way for these persons (read trained militants) to return (from POJK) and live a peaceful life", that the PDP had opposed this policy on the floor of the House and that it was the NC-Congress coalition government that did away with the "blacklist of relatives of the militants by police department during the PDP tenure for refusing passports" and so on. |
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