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| A controversial proposal that has no takers | | BJP bungles, Hurriyat celebrates | | Early Times Report
Jammu, May 7: The decision of the BJP-led NDA Government at the Centre to rehabilitate the internally-displaced Kashmiri Hindus even in the proposed composite township in the Valley, which will be raised in 50 acres of land, has no takers in Kashmir. The decision to create a composite township for the KPs was taken after the Kashmiri separatists opposed separate township for the KPs, saying that they will not allow Israel-type settlements in Kashmir and that the if the KPs wished to return to the Valley they had to live in the areas and localities they left in 1990. It was a climb down on the part of the Union Government.
On Wednesday, Geelani, Mirwaiz and others of their ilk welcomed the Union Home Ministry's Lok Sabha statement that there was no proposal to create a separate township for the KPs in the Valley. They described the statement as their outstanding victory and asserted that the statement would further strengthen their anti-India movement. While terming the cancellation of separate townships proposal for Kashmiri Pandits as the "victory of the endeavor, unity and brotherhood" of the Kashmiri nation and "defeat for the communal mindset", the Hurriyat Conference (G) said: "One day the Government of India will similarly shun its 'rigid and stubborn stand' with regard to the Kashmir issue and 'will accept the reality' and on that day they would be left with no other option other than to provide the right to self determination for the people of Jammu & Kashmir". As for the self-styled chairman of Hurriyat Conference (M) Mirwaiz Umer Farooq, he termed the New Delhi's renewed stand on townships as "people's victory". "This (announcement by New Delhi) is good but every week they keep on changing statements. They should come clear on the issue, once and for all," said he.
It is not only the Kashmiri separatists and the so-called mainstream Kashmiri parties like the NC and backward-looking and sectarian civil society groups in the Valley who have rejected out-of-hand the composite township proposal. The premier organization of the KPs, Panun Kashmir, and several other KP organizations have rejected the composite township proposal. Only on Wednesday, when the Union Home Ministry made statement that there was no proposal for separate township for the KPs and Kashmiri separatists and the parties like the NC hailed it, the Panun Kashmir leadership made it loud and clear that their community would return to Kashmir on their own terms and conditions and that separate homeland was their watchword, battle-cry and political gospel. They will not compromise their 1991 resolve. "The concept of township or colonies for Kashmiri Hindus in Valley are not only ridiculous but also sinister because they actually envisage pushing the victims of genocide back into the grasp of the perpetrators of genocide", PK chairman, Ajay Chrungoo, along with other senior leaders O N Trisal and M K Raina, said in Jammu.
"The PK wants to state it clearly to the Government of India that Hindus of Kashmir will not accept the conversion of J&K into a de facto Muslim State and no return of Hindus is possible to Kashmir Valley unless a centrally administered Union Territory is carved out to the North East of river Jehlum in Kashmir Valley for rehabilitating them.
It is appalling that the thrust of policy in J&K of the Union and State Government is not aimed at stopping the radicalization of Kashmiri Muslims, spreading of sway and reach of separatists establishment and continue sinister enterprise of terrorism. It is, in fact aimed at to undermine the social resistance to separatism, fundamentalism and terrorism," they also added.
Earlier on Tuesday, Ashok Pandit, film maker and an activist, had come all the way from Mumbai to Jammu to express almost identical views. Addressing the KPs at Jagti Township, he had lambasted the Kashmiri separatists as well as the Government of India and urged the members of his community to intensify their struggle for a separate homeland in the valley. And last Sunday, thousands of KPs from different parts of the country, who had assembled at Jantar Mantar, Delhi, had also reiterated that they will not accept anything short of a separate homeland in the Valley. So much so, some radical elements in that big congregation displayed placards which carried the slogan "Modi blinks, hope sinks".
It is pertinent to mention here that the reiteration of the demand for a separate homeland in the Valley has exposed the ongoing sectarian and pro-Pakistan movement in Kashmir. It has sent a strong signal to the Government of India and the international community that no one can dictate terms to them and that they are the masters of their own destiny within India and under the Indian Constitution, minus Article 370. The rejection of the idea of a composite township or a separate township has only defeated the game plan of those in the Sangh Parivar who wanted the KPs to return to the Valley and again face persecution at the hands of fanatics. |
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