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| Maintaining unity and integrity of J&K | | Congress convention | | Rustam
JAMMU, Sept 24: Within a short span of 22 days, the Congress adopted two resolution emphasizing the need to maintain unity and integrity of Jammu and Kashmir state. The Congress adopted a resolution to this effect in Jammu on August 31 during its convention and it adopted a similar resolution on August 22 at Srinagar during a similar meeting. AICC general secretary and in-charge Jammu & Kashmir Congress Ambika Soni, JKPCC chief Saif-ud-Din Soz and Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad addressed the convention in Jammu and Srinagar.
The adoption of resolutions on the unity and integrity of Jammu & Kashmir by the Congress was meaningful. It was meaningful in the sense that many in the Congress had realized that all was not well with the state and that there were elements who wanted to disintegrate the state. It is obvious that the framers of the resolution on the unity and integrity of the state hinted at those in Jammu and Ladakh who had been demanding reorganization/trifurcation of the state saying that the state had outlived its utility and that if the ignored and marginalized Jammu and Ladakh were to obtain their legitimate due share in the political and economic processes in the country, they had to be separated from Kashmir. The Congress leadership, which, like the Kashmir-based parties like National Conference, is fundamentally Valley-centric and anti-Jammu and anti-Ladakh, knew that the demand in Jammu and Ladakh for reorganization of the state had caught the imagination of the grossly discriminated against people of Jammu and Ladakh and that was the reason that the Congress convention adopted two resolution on the unity and integrity of the state within a short span of just three weeks.
Indeed, there are powerful elements both in Jammu and Ladakh who have been working for the separation of their regions from Kashmir. What seems to have alarmed the Kashmir-centric Congress is the stand of the parties like the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and the Ladakh Union Territory Front and the Ladakh Buddhist Association on Jammu & Kashmir. These organizations plus several other groups active in both the regions have all through maintained that Jammu and Ladakh will continue to suffer immense socio-cultural and politico-economic losses at the hands of the Kashmiri leadership, which is backed to the hilt by New Delhi, and that the only solution to the problems being faced by the people of these two regions is the trifurcation of the state.
No one can blame the people of Jammu and Ladakh for demanding separation from the Valley. For, they have been forced to put forth demands ranging from trifurcation to reorganization to Union Territory to regional council to regional development board and to what not by the state's ruling elite of which the Congress has also been a party directly or indirectly. That the Congress knew that people of Jammu and Ladakh were not happy with the existing politico-constitutional and administrative structure could be seen from its 2008 election manifesto. The manifesto had promised an amendment in the state constitution calculated to federalize the state polity and establish adequately empowered regional councils.
If the Congress sincerely wishes to maintain the unity and integrity of the state, it has no other option but to appreciate the needs and aspirations of the suffering people of Jammu and Ladakh and end the over 60-year-old domination of Kashmir over Jammu and Ladakh. The people of Jammu and Ladakh have suffered too much and their patience is ending very fast. Why should they suffer when they contribute more revenue to the state exchequer and inhabit a region which is rich in natural resources, including green gold, water and minerals. |
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