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| Seeking to achieve the unachievable | | Needed: State's Trifurcation | | Rustam
Jammu, Aug 4: Kashmiri separatists and the so-called mainstream leaders sing the same monotonous song everyday knowing it fully well that they are seeking to achieve the unachievable. Yesterday, the self-styled Nelson Mandela of Kashmir Shabir Ahmad Shah asked New Delhi to resolve the Kashmir issue and said that there is but one way in which the Kashmir issue could be resolved and that is by accepting Kashmiris as stakeholder like Pakistan. "No solution could be reached…unless India does not accept Kashmiri leadership as stakeholder like Pakistan", he said. Almost all the Kashmiri leaders, separatists included, have been saying the same thing on a daily basis, but without evoking any positive response from New Delhi despite the fact that its South and North Blocks are dominated by those who have soft corner for Kashmir and its leaders whosoever they are.
There were, and are, powerful elements in the Indian political establishment who wanted, and want, to pander to the separatist and communal Kashmiri leadership by granting them major concessions. Former Prime Ministers Inder Kumar Gujral, HD Devegowda, VP Singh, Narasimha Rao and Atal Behari Vajpayee were all for meeting the separatist and communal urges of Kashmiri leadership, but did not dare to break the status quo. The present Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who has been leading the Government since May 2004, has also indicated his willingness umpteen times to grant major concessions to Kashmir, but has not done anything concrete in this regard. He had said as early as in 2005 that "there is the need to evolve a broader consensus on the twin issues of greater autonomy and self-rule within the vast flexibilities provided in the Indian Constitution".
Of course, it is true that he did hold three round-table conferences, appointed five working groups and constituted a team of interlocutors. But as far as the action part is concerned, there appears nothing on the ground. And one can understand his limitations. He, like his predecessors, knows it fully well that Kashmir doesn't constitute the entire State, that the State consists of three distinct historical provinces, that the aspirations of the people of Jammu Pradesh and Ladakh province are totally different from those of Kashmiri leaders and that the grant of any concession to Kashmir over the heads of the people of Jammu and Ladakh would provoke explosions of portentous dimensions outside the Kashmir valley.
The Kashmiri leaders are also fully aware of these STARK REALITIES, but they willfully overlook them believing that one day they will be able to impose their will on Jammu and Ladakh. Here lies the real problem. Jammu and Ladakh will never oblige the Kashmiri leadership. The reasons are more than obvious. Separatists like Shah need to recognize and appreciate these reasons. The best thing for them to do is to make common cause with those in Jammu and Ladakh who have been demanding the State's reorganization on a regional basis saying such reorganization alone could help resolve the Kashmir issue. In other words, they should support the demand seeking trifurcation of the State. Not to do so or to continue to sing the same old monotonous song would simply suggest that they are not interested in the resolution of the problem. |
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