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| Secessionists in Kashmir bemoaning Jammu's poll verdict | | Pitting 67% against 33% | | Neha
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 28: The poll verdict in the politically neglected and economically ignored or discriminated against Jammu province, where the BJP won 25 seats, Congress five, PDP and the NC three each and independent candidates one seat, has not gone down well with those in Kashmir who want New Delhi to quit the state so that they could play communal shots there, persecute the minorities and establish a theocratic dispensation in J&K. During the past four days, a number of statements have emanated from Kashmir which suggested that many in Kashmir have considered the poll verdict in Jammu province as anti-Kashmir and anti-majority community. They are so biased and so unreasonable.
One of them has even gone to extent of saying that the "communal" BJP has snatched Bhaderwah, Kishtwar and Doda in Jammu province from Kashmiri leadership and that 33 per cent minority will now dictate terms to the 67 per cent majority. By 33 per cent minority he meant the Dogras, who have suffered discrimination during all these years of accession, and by 67 per cent majority, who had been in the driver's seat since 1947, he meant the Muslims, including the Muslims of Jammu province. The BJP, it needs to be noted, not only won both the assembly seats from Doda district and one each from Kishtwar and Ramban districts, but it also won for the first time two out of four seats from Rajouri district. The BJP would have won another seat, had the BJP rebel in the Rajouri assembly segment withdrawn himself from the contest. So, this critic of the Jammu's verdict should also take this fact into consideration.
The critic - a militant-turned-politician-turned-biased commentator, like many other critics in Kashmir, - got so rattled by the Jammu's historic poll verdict so much that he virtually abused the entire Muslim leadership and held the multi-cornered contests responsible for the BJP victory in the entire Dogra region. Bemoaning the verdict, he said that it was owing to the multi-cornered contest that the BJP "snatched" Bhaderwah, Kishtwar and Doda in Jammu. "Such was the consolidation of BJP vote in Dogra belt that for the first time, no Hindu candidate from Congress could win the election this time around; NC could barely win 2 seats. Is it merely a coincidence that since 2002, NC and PDP have both failed to cross the benchmark of 28? If a coincidence, what an astonishing coincidence it is," he said. He further said: "Juxtapose the fragmented strength of 60 with that of 25 seats of the consolidated Jammu Dogra region, it obviously will aim to call the shots. Ruefully 67 per cent of Kashmir finds itself hostage to the whims of 33 per cent minority. Is this the price we are made to pay for seeking a place of dignity and honour within Indian union? Or shall we rejoice the art of state craft that connives disempowering a majority?"
It is the like of these critics who have never allowed the Dogras of Jammu and Kashmiri Muslims to develop friendly relations. They are responsible for the existing inter-regional animosities and bitterness.
They are the ones who have all through indulged in communal politics to create a wall of hatred between the regions and the communities. It's time for the powers-that-be in the state to rein in such rogue elements who pit the Kashmiri Muslims against the Dogras of Jammu province and play nefarious games to help Pakistan further its sinister agenda in J&K. Such rogue elements have no place in the state where the people want to lead a peaceful and dignified life, live in harmony and exercise all the rights available under the Indian Constitution. |
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