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| Nation paying the price for Nehru's bungling in Kashmir | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Nov 23: In 1947, JL Nehru took the responsibility of getting Kashmir to accede to India. The Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir, Hari Singh, had six concerns. One of the main concerns was his lack of confidence in Nehru. He sent both India and Pakistan a Standstill Agreement letter. Pakistan signed it but India just sat on it. The delay on Nehru's part was deliberate. Maybe Nehru wanted to teach Maharaja a lesson.
In 1946, Sheikh Abdullah had started a Quit Kashmir movement, to essentially unseat the Maharaja. Sheikh Abdullah was imprisoned for 3 years for this in the middle of 1946 and Nehru wanted to take up the Kashmir "freedom struggle" once Abdullah was arrested but the Raja forbade Nehru from entering the kingdom. There was much posturing and arm-twisting before Nehru was allowed entry into Kashmir. During the period 1945-47, Kashmir saw three Prime Ministers help the Maharaja!
When Pakistan broke the Standstill agreement and gave tacit support to Pathan rebels to "free" Kashmir on the 20th of October, 1947, the Maharaja immediately sent his new Prime Minister Mehr Chand Mahajan to negotiate the accession issue. But Nehru for some unexplainable reason, wanted the Maharaja out and Sheikh Abdullah installed before signing the papers of accession. The accession papers were finally signed on the 26th of October, 1947, by the Maharaja and the Indian army troops drove out the invaders but stopped at what is the current Line of Control (LoC) upon the insistence of Sheikh Abdullah, who was given command of the Indian Army in Kashmir.
Within weeks, Abdullah lost Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) to Pakistan on November 16th, 1947, because he did not attempt to reclaim GB! The whole exercise of throwing Gilgit-Baltistan's lot with Pakistan was meticulously organized by Major William Brown, an employee of the Maharaja. Brown had carefully plotted every step of the way on how to align GB with Pakistan. Whether he was acting alone or under "advice" from above is a topic for another day. Currently GB for all practical purposes is a Chinese territory as Pakistan appears to have sold it to China. How can a country "sell" a piece of land that it does not even own? Note that GB's population is predominantly Shia.
Nehru did not realize Sheikh Abdullah's true intentions till 1953 at which point, he imprisoned him. To this day, Kashmir is a mess thanks to Nehru's obsession with one man. |
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