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| 3 M’s to decide KPs’ fate | | Delhi Meet | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, May 24: Three M’s on Saturday met with a handful of Kashmiri Pandits at J&K House, Prithvi Raj Road, New Delhi, to discuss and decide the political future of the internally-displaced community.
The three M’s, who played crucial role in the meeting, included Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, BJP national general secretary (incharge J&K) Ram Madhav and Mattoo (Amitabh), former vice-chancellor of Jammu University.
It was Deputy Chief minister Nirmal Singh who, according to Ram Madhav himself, was to represent BJP in the meeting but suddenly it was decided to replace him with Ram Madhav, who was one of the architects of the agenda of alliance, which is being described by many in Jammu and elsewhere as a “new charter of bondage”.
Prominent among others, who threw in their lot with the three M’s, included K N Pandita, who has allegedly changed his stand on Kashmir a number of times and who had once described Kashmir a “colony” of India, Moti Koul, who has little or no say in his own community and who fought assembly election on BJP ticket in Kashmir in 2014 only to forefeit his security deposit, and Surinder Ambardar, BJP/RSS MLC, who is known less for any contribution to his own community.
Ambardar was not in the BJP when he was nominated to the Legislative Council by the party high command – a decision that had sprung a big surprise among the local BJP cadres and office-bearers. They didn’t like the decision, but they failed to muster courage to oppose it. Meek and weak as they were, they thought it politically wise to fall in the line, hoping they would also get something someday.
Besides Mattoo, Pandita and Koul, Vijay Aima, Romesh Raina and Tej Tikoo (all from All India Kashmiri Samaj), Ajay Bharati, Sanjay Ganjoo and Manoj Bhan (all from the RSS-founded, controlled, guided and funded J&K Vichar Manch), Jawahar Kaul (RSS-founded, controlled, funded and guided J&K Study Circle), M L Malla (Koshur Samut) and Ashok Braru (so-called social activist) also took part in the meeting. The only duty of some of them is to oppose Panun Kashmir, which has been struggling since December 1991 for the creation of a separate homeland in the Valley for the internally-displaced Kashmiri Hindus.
The point is that Pandita, Koul and Ambardar are self-elected representatives of the KP community. They very cheerfully offered their services to the three M’s. Pandita, Koul, Ambardar and others of their ilk who attended the meeting fit in the scheme of things of Mattoo and Ram Madhav. Not a single KP who enjoys the confidence of his community was actually present in the meeting, which was to decide the fate of community. One can understand the conspicuous absence of any genuine KP in the meeting.
It is alleged that the three M’s want the internally-displaced KPs to give up their demand for separate homeland in the Valley and return to and stay in the localities they vacated in early 1990 to save their life, dignity and honour. They are against “Israel-type” settlements for the KPs in Kashmir. They are also against those who suggest “composite townships” for them in the Valley where 50 per cent of the flats would be allotted to the KPs and 50 per cent would be sold to Kashmiri Muslims and Sikhs. They want the KPs to return to their original houses for reasons not difficult to understand.
It is also important to note that Ram Madhav, like Amitabh Mattoo, stands for “national reconciliation”, which means a regime in which Pakistan and its “assets” (Hurriyat Conference and terrorists) will have an important say. Amitabh Mattoo, it is too well-known, was initially a votary of greater autonomy for J&K. He was close to Farooq Abdullah and had talked about “national reconciliation” much before Mufti Mohammad Sayeed came into power in the State. He, like Pakistan, “mainstream” Kashmiri politicians and Kashmiri extremists and separatists of all variety, also doesn’t consider J&K a settled issue in the real sense of the term. However, a few years later, he revised his opinion and came to the conclusion that self-rule, not greater autonomy, could be the best solution to the Kashmir problem and end “alienation in Kashmir”. Kashmir and Kashmiri people, according to Amitabh Mattoo and Ram Madhav, are the chief determinants and KPs and Jammu and Ladakh are of lesser or no importance.
Credible sources close to Ram Madhav informed that “he was very happy with the outcome of the meet” and that “he was quite confidant that whatever the Chief Minister would do to KPs would be in the best interest of the internally-displaced community”. Ram Madhav, who is unhappy with social media because it is being used to question his very credentials, reportedly also asked the “KP leaders to be positive on return issue and be unanimous on this issue instead of raising different voices”. “Instead of launching a misinformation campaign on social media, the community should be positive on all issues,” he also reportedly said during the meeting.
Mattoo and Ram Madhav cannot decide the fate of the KPs by using their “yesmen” and ignoring the genuine representatives. |
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