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| OIC exploiting Delhi's ambiguous stand on J&K | | Makkah Summit | | Neha
jammu, Aug 18: New Delhi did exceedingly well by taking on head on the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and saying its mention of Jammu and Kashmir as a country is "unacceptable". The OIC held its Fourth Extraordinary Summit in Makkah on August 14-15, 2012, under the heading of "Solidarity With Other Member States" and its final declaration said: "The Summit affirms its solidarity and full support for Sudan, Somalia, Afghanistan and Jammu and Kashmir, Iraq, Yemen, Ivory Coast, the Union of Comoros and the Republic of Turkish-Cyprus in addressing the challenges facing these countries."
New Delhi took two days to take on the OIC and assert that Jammu and Kashmir is an integral part of India. "We note that there is an erroneous and factually incorrect mention about an integral part of India by the OIC in its communique at its Fourth Extraordinary Summit held at Makkah on August 14-15, 2012. This is wrong, unacceptable and we reject it," official spokesperson in the Ministry of External Affairs Syed Akbaruddin on Friday said after examining in minute details what the OIC called "Final Communique".
But what the Indian Foreign Office said in reaction to the OIC's provocative stand on Jammu and Kashmir is just not enough. Of course, it was a timely and well-meaning intervention, but, at the same time, it cannot be ignored that it is New Delhi which has created a serious problem in Jammu and Kashmir and enabled anti-India forces across the world to interfere in the internal affairs of India. New Delhi has been bungling right from day one. It committed an act of political debauchery when in October 1949 it adopted Article 306 - A (Article 370) and granted a special status to Jammu and Kashmir in the country. Article 306-A permitted Jammu and Kashmir to have a separate constitution and separate flag. Besides, it empowered the state to exercise residuary powers and gave it the right to accept or not to accept any central law. Jammu and Kashmir was the only State in the country which was treated separately. And it was this mishandling that complicated matters for India and enabled anti-India forces to question the very status of Jammu and Kashmir.
It was hoped that New Delhi would learn from the past mistakes and do away with the special status by abrogating Article 370, but it turned out to be a false hope. Contrarily, New Delhi consistently rebuffed those who demanded the state's full integration into the Indian Union. Its attitude remains the same even today. So much so, P Chidambaram as Home Minister and External Affairs Minister SM Krishna made common cause with controversial Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and publicly said that the State Chief Minister was right when he on October 6, 2010 on the floor of the Legislative Assembly said that "Jammu and Kashmir State had only acceded and not merged with India and that Jammu and Kashmir is a political problem that needed to be resolved politically".
All this only serves to prove that the New Delhi's stand on Jammu and Kashmir is not unambiguous. New Delhi has to rectify the past mistakes and made it loud and clear that Jammu and Kashmir is an integral part of India to the same extent as other states of the Union are. But before it could take this stand, it has to remove from the Indian statue book that Article that has created mess in the state and provided opportunity to anti-India forces to poke their dirty nose in the internal affairs of India. It is prerequisite. |
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