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Early Times Report
jammu, Dec 5: Farooq Abdullah today abandoned the pre-1953 position demand and offered fullest possible support to Hurriyat, saying the NC with it and not against it.
Addressing party workers at the mausoleum of his father Sheikh Abdullah on his 111st birth anniversary at Naseem Bagh on the outskirts of Srinagar, Farooq Abdullah revolted against India and said: "We are with you (hurriyat) not against you and we have given our entire lives for this (azadi) movement".
"Be united, move ahead and take this (azadi) movement fotward and we are with you… we will never be free until we are all united and I am telling NC workers not to stay away from this movement," he also said.
Earlier, Farooq Abdullah and his NC used to talk about pre-1953 politico-constitutional status for the state. In fact, it was in the midst of the BJP-led NDA government at Delhi, Farooq Abdullah's State government came up with the demand for pre-1953 autonomy for J&K State. The demand was that J&K Government be restored that constitutional relationship which existed before the then Chief Minister, Sheikh Abdullah, was dismissed by the Maharaja of J&K (because of inflammatory rumours that the Sheikh, in collusion with the USA, was trying to create a state for himself). That was on August 9, 1953.
Despite the Delhi parleys of 1952 between the Sheikh's team and the Nehru's government of India being favourable to J&K's point of view on several issues regarding several concessions being given to J&K government, no further action was being taken because of alleged secret negotiations being undertaken by the Sheikh for Kashmir's Independence. The replacement of the Sheikh with Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad accelerated the action to give effect to what transpired between Nehru and Abdullah in 1952. This had ultimately resulted in the President of India's Order, (Application to Jammu & Kashmir) of May 14, 1954 under Article 370. This Order under Article 370 enlarged the powers of the Indian Union and most of the provisions of the Indian Constitution of 26thNovember 1949 were made applicable to J&K State, without really interfering with the internal autonomy of the State.
Farooq Abdullah, along with his son, Omar, were unhappy with the way the Union was allegedly increasing its sphere of influence in J&K and wanted to go back to the first and original Presidential Order (Application to Jammu & Kashmir) of January 26, 1950 under which the J&K State had a free run of various sensitive actions such as fundamental rights, currency and Supreme Court jurisdiction.
With its pre-1953 autonomy demand remaining a dream ever since, the father-and-son Abdullahs have seemed an angry and frustrated lot. While the father has been aggressive and vitriolic on occasions, the son has been more astute and diplomatic, though he too appears to be losing his cool. Both of them are having to bear their unfulfilled dream of ruling like Maharajas over a State which they have often treated as "Hamare Baap ki property."
What Farooq today said cannot be ignored. |
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