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| First ever dharna in Srinagar on discrimination issue | | Fleecing India | | ET Report
JAMMU, Aug 11: The Government of India has not till date issued any order sanctioning an AIIMS for Jammu region. Its Health Ministry has only written a letter to the Jammu & Kashmir Government asking it to identify alternate pieces of land for the establishment of AIIMS in Jammu & Kashmir. The letter was written to the Jammu & Kashmir Government only on August 4 to pacify the agitating people of Jammu region and the AIIMS Coordination Committee and it nowhere said that an AIIMS will be established in Jammu. The ACC called off the six-day-old massive bandh on August 5 after holding talks with some BJP ministers, notwithstanding the fact that it made it loud and clear that it would continue to maintain pressure on the BJP till the time the Government of India didn't establish an AIIMS in Jammu.
However, Kashmiri leaders like the Awami Itihad Party (AIP) president and MLA Engineer Rashid have taken this letter to mean that the Government of India has sanctioned a full-fledged AIIMS for which the people of Jammu region have been agitating for more than four months now. They have also taken this letter to mean an act of discrimination against the people of Kashmir.
The letter has enraged and infuriated Engineer Rashid to the extent that he, along with a few supporters of his, on Monday sat on 50-hour-long dharna at Srinagar. This is perhaps the first-ever dharna organized by any Kashmiri leader against New Delhi on the spurious charge that the authorities in New Delhi make invidious and unjust distinctions between Jammu region and Kashmir Valley or give a preferential treatment to the people of Jammu region, which is not true. The fact of the matter is that the people of Jammu region have no place whatsoever in the New Delhi's scheme of things. That even the BJP ditched and betrayed Jammu to make common cause with Kashmir could be seen from the agenda of alliance on the basis of which it came into power in Jammu & Kashmir. But the likes of Rashid would never look all these facts in the face, as they are so biased and unreasonable and as they consider Jammu as the Kashmir's colony.
As was expected, he attacked India and accused it of treating Kashmiri Muslims as beggars and second class citizens. "Kashmiris are always treated as beggars and second class citizens by New Delhi. The political and social leadership of Kashmir need to rise above personnel interests to tell New Delhi that you can't always take us for granted," he said while talking to media persons at the dharna site.
"If the Government of India can easily agree to the demand of people of Jammu to establish AIIMS at Jammu…IIM and IIT have already been approved for the Jammu province, how can it leave the larger province of Kashmir, which includes Ladakh, unattended and unaddressed," he further said.
Rashid also took this opportunity to incite or provoke all the Kashmiri parties and separatist outfits against India and urged them to come on one platform to fight out the policy of discrimination against Kashmir being adopted and implemented by New Delhi. "It is high time that Kashmiri leaders must unite and fight for the genuine rights of the Kashmiri people. Today's sit-in was just to remind both mainstream and 'pro-resistance (azadi) parties' that 'you cannot run away from very basic, important and real issues' concerning Kashmiri people by giving one excuse or the other," he told reporters.
Rashid, like other Kashmiri leaders of all hues, misses no opportunity to pour venom on India, but, at the same time, he, like them, also wants Kashmir to fleece India to the maximum possible extent. The fact of the matter is that they blackmail, coerce and fleece India and they want maximum funds from New Delhi so that they and people of Kashmir could lead a life of luxury at the cost of the people of Jammu region and the Indian nation as a whole. |
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