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| Modi blasts Congress for 'diluting' Indian position on J&K | | Issue Of Grave Concern | |
RUSTAM
JAMMU, June 24: June 23 is a very sad day in the political history of Jammu and Kashmir, nay India. It was on that day almost 60 years ago that independent India witnessed death of great son of the country Dr Shyama Prasad Mookerjee in Kashmir in mysterious circumstances. Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, who has attained a stature in the Indian political arena, established himself as a greater administrator and acclaimed worldwide, says, and very rightly, Dr Shyama Prasad Mookerjee was the "first martyr of independent India".
It must remain a matter of shame for the custodians of the Indian State that Dr Mookerjee had to lay down his precious life for the national cause in Jammu and Kashmir. Remember, he had entered state in 1953 violating the permit system. The then National Conference Government headed by
votary of limited accession with India and a known communalist of communalists Sheikh Abdullah arrested him and put him behind bars in Kashmir, where he died. Also remember, that it was that supreme sacrifice of Dr Mookerjee that culminated in the abolition of the obnoxious permit system. The truth is that the credit for the integration of Jammu and Kashmir in the Indian Union goes to Dr Mookerjee, a man who came all the way from Bengal to lay down his life in order to bring Jammu & Kashmir closer to New Delhi then ever before. Had Dr Mookerjee not made a supreme sacrifice, the fate of the minorities in Jammu & Kashmir would have been similar to the fate of the minorities in Pakistan, including Mohajirs (all Muslims who migrated to Pakistan in the wake of communal partition of India), Hindus, Sikhs, Christians, Shitte Muslims, to mention only a few. People across the country observe the Mookerjee's martyrdom as Balidan Divas.
Yesterday, at a time when the local BJP leaders and workers, along with former BJP president Dr Murli Manohar Joshi, were paying floral tributes to Dr Mookerjee in Jammu and remembering his contribution to the national cause, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi was accusing the Congress party of diluting the Indian position on Jammu & Kashmir. Paying his tributes to Dr Mookerjee at Ahemdabad, Modi said that "It was Mookerjee who started an agitation on the issue of Jammu and Kashmir" and that "he died under mysterious circumstances in a jail of Jammu and Kashmir (red Kashmir)". "He was the first martyr of independent India," Modi said, adding "let us not forget his words 'Ek desh me do Vidhan, do Pradhan aur Do Nishan nahi chalenge" (no two constitutions, two Prime Ministers and two national emblems in one country)".
Recalling Mookerjee's splendid contribution, Modi blasted the Congress for diluting the Indian position on Jammu and Kashmir. "The 'Congress government' at the centre is trying to dilute the Indian position on Jammu and Kashmir…The official attempt of the Congress Government to dilute Indian position on Jammu and Kashmir is an issue of grave concern," Modi said. He urged the countrymen to oppose the Congress Government's policy towards Jammu and Kashmir so that Indian sovereignty and territorial integrity of the country is maintained and Congress defeated. It is time for all the citizens who are committed to the unity and integrity of the country to raise voice against such attempt by the Congress Government to dilute the Indian position on Kashmir," he, in fact, said and added that the countrymen would not allow the Congress Government to do so, as "thousands of our soldiers and others" - apart from Dr Mookerjee, founder of the erstwhile Jana Sangh -- have laid down their lives for the integration of Jammu and Kashmir". He charged the Congress Government with "putting Kashmir under the clouds of uncertainty for vote-bank politics" and declared that the Congress will not succeed, as the nation is committed to safeguarding the paramount national interest in Jammu and Kashmir.
It was after a long, long time that any BJP leader took a clear-cut stand on Jammu and Kashmir. It appears the BJP leadership is distancing from the Vajpayee's Kashmir policy. It is a positive development. However, one has to wait and see if Modi really meant what he said. But one thing is clear: If the BJP is to defeat the Congress and similar other pseudo secular formations, including the Janata Dal (United) of Sharad Yadav and Nitish Kumar and recapture the South and North Blocks, it has no other option but to revert to its old Kashmir policy and win over and strengthen its Jammu constituency, which is nationalist to the core and which has also been further strengthened by the internally-displaced Kashmiri Hindus. |
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