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| PK questions BJP-RSS's approach towards J&K | | "Communalism, fundamentalism, separatism" | | ET Report
Jammu, July 14: Panun Kashmir (PK), the premier organization of the internally-displaced Kashmiri Hindus and a votary of a separate homeland within the Valley, on Monday lambasted the BJP-led NDA Government and its policy towards Jammu & Kashmir. In a way, it questioned the approach of the so-called nationalist RSS-BJP towards Jammu & Kashmir. The BJP is in power at the centre and it is also part of the power structure in Jammu & Kashmir. The BJP became part of the state's power structure on March 1 after formulating and adopting an "Agenda of Alliance", which is roundly denounced in the state by the nationalist camp as an "agenda of subversion" and a new charter of bondage".
Significantly, the RSS of which the BJP is a political organ had endorsed the Agenda of Alliance and gave a green signal to the BJP to go ahead and become part of the establishment in Jammu & Kashmir. The fact of the matter is that the Agenda of Alliance was the brain-child of Ram Madhav, a former RSS spokesperson, RSS ideologue and BJP national general secretary - an agenda which was appreciated and duly approved by the RSS, the BJP high command and Prime Minister Narendra Modi and an agenda that negated all that they advocated for several decades. Just 13 days after the formation of the coalition government in Jammu & Kashmir -- of which the BJP was a part --, the RSS had described the development in the state a novel experiment and rejected those who had not appreciated the joining of the BJP the Kashmiri party.
The RSS had on March 13 said at Nagpur its stance on Article 370 in Jammu & Kashmir had not changed, even as it termed as "teething problems" the friction between BJP and PDP in the state stressing that the "novel experiment" should be given time to succeed. "The RSS stand on Article 370 has not changed. We will never compromise on it. We want the situation to improve. If the situation does not improve, then we will decide," RSS joint General Secretary Dattatreya Hosabale had said at the first day of the three-day conclave of the apex body of the Sangh. And on the BJP's alliance with PDP hitting a rocky patch in Jammu & Kashmir where the BJP was in government for the first time, Hosabale had said though the RSS "was not happy" with the occurrences, those were "teething problems". All this should clinch the whole issue and establish that the RSS endorsed the Agenda of Alliance.
By questioning the Indian policy structure for Jammu & Kashmir, the PK actually questioned the RSS-BJP and their policy towards the state. They are at the helm of affairs and obviously the PK targeted them. It questioned its policy towards Jammu & Kashmir and opined that if Jammu & Kashmir is to remain part of India, the powers-that-be have to recognize the ground realities in the state and evolve, devise and implement policies that not only protect the minorities from exclusion by the majority but also combat and eliminate Communalism, fundamentalism and separatism which have been playing havoc with the Indian nation since several decades now.
"The Government of India has to realize fast that secularism does not grow by political empowerment of communalism, fundamentalism does not vanish by befriending it, and separatism doesn't die by nourishing soft-separatism," said PK leaders Ajay Chrungoo and Agni Shekhar while reflecting on the Jammu & Kashmir policy. This one line suggested many things. It suggested that the BJP-RSS combine abandoned its ideology and adopted the one the UPA and Sonia Gandhi's 10 Janpath ruthlessly pursued to seal the fate of the minorities in the state, drive Jammu & Kashmir away from the national mainstream and reduce Jammu and Ladakh to the status of Kashmir's colonies. It also suggested that the RSS-BJP combine instead of eradicating communalism, fundamentalism and separatism has only accorded credibility to those in Kashmir known for hatred for secular values, national integration and the very idea of India. The PK did make a point when it questioned the policy structure for Jammu & Kashmir. Those who have not gone through the Agenda of Alliance must go through it and once they do so, they would endorse the PK.
Equally significant were its two other formulations: (1) We have all witnessed with shock and dismay the self deceiving rationalizations of the successive governments which reduced the whole debate on terrorist threat in the state to the comparative numbers of killings and incidents of violence. While the militarized fundamentalist regimes were declaring their presence by hoisting and flaunting their flags the leadership at the helms has been indulging in trivializing these happenings by describing them as propaganda stunts. (2) Most dangerous has been the tactical and strategic formulations which have guided the Government of India. It invested heavily in breeding some sort of non-violent separatism and fundamentalism and ended up only building legitimacy for separatism and giving birth to new cadres for fundamentalist violence.
The fact of the matter is that the PK put things in perspective and warned the country of serious consequences in case our rulers in New Delhi continued to tread the path they started treading after October 2014 to appease the votaries of Kashmiri sub-nationalism and open the BJP account in the Valley. The RSS-BJP combine would do well to appreciate all the formulations of the PK. The best thing for it to do would be to adopt the agenda on the basis of which the BJP won 282 seats in the Lok Sabha and decimated the Congress, the Indian Left, the RJD, the SP, the BSP, the JDU, the RLD, the NCP and so on. The RSS and BJP must remember that by adopting the Agenda of Alliance, they have rigorously excluded Jammu and Ladakh and the non-Muslim minorities like Kashmiri Hindus from the power structure and that have put the state on the road to separation. |
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