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| Assault on Kashmiri students outside the state | | Secessionism The Cause | | RUSTAM
JAMMU, July 4: Kashmiri leaders like Mehboob Beg of National Conference (NC), which has been opposing the Indian Constitution, nay everything Indian, barring the Indian rupees, and used obnoxious Article 370 to convert Kashmir into a one-community region, are feeling quite upset these days. The reason: Some Kashmiri students were assaulted in one Haryana college three days ago. Beg was so upset and angry that he wrote a letter the Union Home Minister urging him to intervene in the matter so that Kashmiri students studying outside the state are not assaulted in the future. Beg, who - apart from PDP MLA Nizam-ud-Din Bhat and Congress MLC and spokesperson Ravinder Sharma -- was refused permission by the Indian Foreign Office (IFO) to visit Brussels (Belgium) to participate in an anti-India seminar on Kashmir just four days ago, is not the only Kashmiri who has expressed his deep concern over what was done to some Kashmiri students in Haryana. A number of other Kashmiri leaders have taken up this issue. Even the Kashmiri media has taken up this issue in a big way. It has said the "right to equality given to the citizens by the Constitution (of India) is undoubtedly the most important right" and urged the authorities outside the state to respect Articles 14 and 15 of the Indian Constitution so that the Kashmiri students and businessmen enjoy equal rights with rest of the Indians across the country. Article 14 provides for equality to all citizens. Article 15 says there shall be no discrimination on the ground of caste, race, sex, religion and region.
Opinion leaders in Kashmir, like the votaries of semi-independence Beg, have not only drawn the attention of the authorities outside the state to Articles 14 and 15, but also opined that by overlooking these basic features of the Indian constitution, "the law enforcing agencies, particularly the police in those states, wittingly or unwittingly become part of the sinister designs against Kashmiris (read Kashmiri Muslims) when they fail to act against the culprit". So much so, they have asserted that "the biased approach of such law enforcing agencies discriminating Kashmiris against their state subjects is something that needs to be taken very seriously" and that "the prejudice they show against Kashmiris in their states is not only bad in law, (but) it can also have ramifications for the inter-state relations inasmuch as it can firm up the belief of Kashmiris that they are not being treated equals in the larger federal structure of the country". Not just this, they have very strongly urged the Jammu & Kashmir Government to take up the issue both with the Union Government and state governments so that safety and security of the Kashmiri students and businessmen is guaranteed.
Remember, they are the same persons who do not want any non-Kashmiri to settle in Kashmir and work there because they believe that the Indians want to come to Kashmir to change its demography, pollute its salubrious environment and destroy its ecology. They have never ever raised even their little finger against extremists like Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Yasin Malik, Shabir Shah, Nayeem Khan, to mention only a few, who created an environment in the Kashmir Valley that left the non-Kashmiris, and even the miniscule minority of Kashmiri Hindus, with no other option but to quit Kashmir to save their life, honour, dignity and culture.
The fact is that the Kashmiri leaders of all hues and Kashmiri opinion makers want the Muslims of Kashmir to exercise all rights all over India, including the right to service, right to business, right to own immovable property and right to education, but they hate and abhor the idea of any non-Kashmiri settling in the Valley. They consider all the Indians aliens. The situation has now climaxed to the point that the likes of Geelanis have termed the move of the authorities to set up separate colonies for the displaced Kashmiri Hindus in Kashmir Valley as a dangerous conspiracy to change the Kashmir's demography and set up another state within the state .
It would have been better had the Kashmiri leaders and opinion makers taken into consideration their hostile attitude towards India and the Indians before urging the authorities outside the state to ensure parity between Kashmiri Muslims and other Indians. That they didn't acknowledge the fact that the non-Muslims, and even Kashmiri Hindus and Kashmiri Sikhs were, and are, victims of fanaticism and politics of exclusiveness and, instead, talked about the alleged assaults on Kashmiri students and businessmen outside the state only shows how unreasonable they are. They must realize that these alleged assaults on Kashmiri students and businessmen are the immediate fallout of the politics of secessionism, based on religious fanaticism, which the Kashmiri leaders, including separatists, opinion makers and others in Kashmir have been brazenly indulging in, particularly since the late 1980.
No sane person would ever approve of what was allegedly done to some Kashmiri students because they are Indians, but at the same time one would expect that Kashmiri leaders and others who matter in Kashmir would also apply Articles 14 and 15 in letter and spirit so that the non-Kashmiris enjoy full freedom to do whatever they want to in the Kashmir Valley as Indian nationals. Federal structure of the country doesn't mean two yardsticks, one for Kashmiri Muslims and another for all others. |
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