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| Trust deficit with Delhi: Farooq Abdullah | | Kashmiri radicalization | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, July 23: The other day, former Jammu & Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah warned that "trust deficit with Delhi is resulting in radicalization of the youth in Kashmir and that the trend needs to be stopped, failing which it may lead to problems bigger than what was seen in early 1990s".
"Trust deficit between Srinagar and Delhi is a major contributor for this (radicalization in Kashmir). Let me warn, today's generation and Farooq Abdullah's generation are different...My generation agreed with little but today's generation needs results faster and better," he said, and added that "autonomy is a way to move forward in solving the Kashmir issue." "At least this (autonomy) is a road" and discussions on the issue are needed at the earliest," he further said in Delhi. The occasion was the release of the book "Kashmir: The Vajpayee Years" The book is written by former RAW Chief A S Dulat.
Actually, Farooq Abdullah threatened India that situation in Kashmir would turn more serious if the Government of India failed to end the trust deficit between Kashmir and New Delhi. He didn't say that unemployment or under development in the Valley was responsible for the radicalization of Kashmiri youth. And he didn't commit a mistake when he didn't talk about unemployment and underdevelopment. For, Kashmir is a highly developed region in the entire country where the unemployment rate is less than 30 per cent as compared to over 69 per cent in Jammu region. He also didn't hold mal-administration, corruption and politics of exclusion responsible for the ongoing process of radicalization of Kashmiri youth. For, he himself failed to hand down a corruption free, responsive and accountable government.
The fact of the matter is that he held the extension of the Central laws and institutions to the state responsible for radicalization of Kashmiri youth and suggested that if New Delhi is to reverse this process and keep the situation in Kashmir under some control, it has to concede the autonomy demand as being put forth from time to time by the National Conference, which has been declining since 2002 under the controversial and unpopular leadership of his son and former Jammu & Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah. He didn't say that the grant of autonomy as being demanded by the National Conference would solve the whole problem. He said it could be the starting point. Underline his statement "My generation agreed with little but today's generation needs results faster and better," which should explain everything and suggest what Farooq Abdullah actually hinted at. And, still he shamelessly claimed that "he is an Indian and he will die as Indian".
Kashmir has all through pained the Indian nation, as the entire political class in the valley, including the NC leadership, willfully and as per strategy held the Kashmiri Muslims aloof from the national mainstream and the trend continues. It is the Kashmiri leadership that has poisoned the ears of the Kashmiri people, including Kashmiri youth, and it is New Delhi's ruling elites which never ever tried to diagnose what ails Kashmir. New Delhi, contrarily, always allowed itself to be trapped by the communal, canny, selfish, and even the anti-India Kashmiri leadership and ignored the very vast patriotic constituency in the state, especially the people of Jammu region and Ladakh and minorities like Kashmiri Hindus.
It's time for New Delhi to call the Abdullah bluff and give the army a freehand to deal with the situation in the Valley. Former Union Home Secretary VK Duggal was right when he on April 18, 2006 said in Srinagar that it was imperative to "answer every gun with a gun" in Jammu & Kashmir and "end of cross-border terrorism would be an important confidence-building measure". |
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