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| To maintain unity of the state, conciliate alienated Jammu, Ladakh | | Inter-regional tensions | |
Rustam
JAMMU, July 10: Resentment is brewing in Jammu province. The complaints of its people are very many. It's hardly necessary to catalogue here all the complaints and grievances of the people of Jammu province and Ladakh region against the Kashmiri leadership, as everyone is aware of the problems and difficulties the people of these two regions have been facing since more than six decades. Suffice to say that the Kashmiri leadership has established its stranglehold over the State's political, financial and social institutions and Jammu and Ladakh have little or no say in the governance of the State. The Gajendragadkar Report of 1968 on regional disparities, the Wazir Commission report of 1983 on new administrative units, including districts and tehsils, and the Singhal Committee Report of 1998 on admission to professional and technical colleges have all candidly acknowledged that Jammu and Ladakh never got what was their legitimate due in the State's socio-economic and political processes.
The Gajendragadkar Commission had even gone to the extent of saying that "even if all the matters were equitably settled (between Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh), we feel that there would still be a measure of discontent unless the political aspirations of the different regions of the State were satisfied" and that "we consider that the main cause of irritation and tension is the feeling of political neglect and discrimination, real or imagined, from which certain regions (Jammu and Ladakh) of the State suffer".
The Commission had also said that there were groups in Jammu who suggested trifurcation of the state as a lasting solution to the Jammu problem. The Commission had, instead, recommended establishment of an empowered regional development board for Jammu - a suggestion that never got support from the Valley-centric and essentially anti-Jammu and anti-Ladakh Kashmiri leadership.
What the Gajendragadkar Commission said 48 years ago is true even today and this can be seen from the fact that inter-regional animosities in the State have assumed alarming proportions and the people of Jammu and Ladakh have no faith in Kashmiri leadership. Sadly, Kashmiri leaders of all hues do not look all these realities in the face. They summarily dismiss the charge of the people of Jammu and Ladakh that they are being discriminated against and say it is nothing but a misinformation campaign unleashed to discredit them. It is this approach of the Kashmiri leadership that has led the people of Jammu and Ladakh to believe that if they remained silent and devoid of intense political activity any longer, they would soon get entirely submerged under the rising tide of Kashmiri leadership's exclusive sub-nationalism.
The truth, in short, is that the people of Jammu and Ladakh are fed up with the existing political set-up. They are longing for a regime that is state-centric and that compensates adequately the huge losses they suffered during the past more than 66 years at the hands of Kashmiri leadership. Their grievances needed to be redressed at the earliest. It is must if the unity and integrity of the state is to be maintained. |
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