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| RSS and struggle for justice in Jammu, Ladakh | | Revisiting Kurukshetra of June 2002 | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Oct 3: The Pratinidhis (representatives) of J&K appealed to the Akhil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha of the RSS in March 2001 at Delhi to support the agitations prevailing in Jammu and Ladakh regions for demanding separate statehood for Jammu and Union Territory status for Ladakh. They argued with the facts and figures of discrimination with Jammu and Ladakh regions by the State Government and the activities of terrorists, separatist forces and also the detailed and factual information about the forces which stood for the complete integration with Bharat. After discussions the ABPS passed a Resolution
Pursuant to that Resolution the Sar Karyawah, Shri Mohan Rao Bhagwat appointed a Committee to examine the question of reorganization of the State of Jammu & Kashmir by creating a separate State for the Jammu region and designating the Ladakh region as a Union Territory. The committee was headed by Uttar Kshetra Sanghachalak (President North Zone), retd. Chief Justice of Punjab & Haryana High Court, Jitendra Veer Gupta. Members were Professor Dr. Bajranglal Gupta, Haryana Prant Karyawah and Prof. Bal Apte, an old activist of ABVP and member of Rajya Sabha.
The committee undertook an extensive tour of Jammu & Kashmir State. It was able to interact with hundreds of citizens individually as well as collectively. The Committee met about 58 representative groups in Jammu region and 15 in Kashmir. The delegates and the persons who met the Committee included advocates, doctors, lecturers, businessmen, farmers, social workers, administrative officials, officers of military and police and political leaders etc. from all regions, religions, castes and women organizations. The committee submitted its report on the basis of its own experiences and assessments. After that, but before the meet of the ABKM, RSS Spokesman, M.G. Vaidya also went to Jammu. His information re-enforced the findings of the report submitted earlier. The Resolution was passed in the light of all those confirmed findings.
Resolution on J & K
Akhil Bharatiya Karyakari Mandal Baithak of the RSS, Yugabda 5104 at Kurukshetra on June 29-30, 2002. "The Akhil Bharatiya Karyakari Mandal (ABKM) expresses its grave concern over the fast deteriorating situation in recent years in the J&K state due to the separatist and terrorist activities. This situation has been aggravated by the slogan of autonomy for the state. Behind this development lies the deplorable story of ineptitude, short sightedness and minorityism of the political leadership of our country. The day the Maharaja of J&K, signed the Instrument of Accession, without any conditions whatsoever, the problem ought to have ceased for good. But our then Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru halted the victorious onward march of our armed forces and took the matter to the U.N.O. and thus paved the way for internationalizing a problem which would have been solved by us on our own strength".
"Insistence on appointing Sheikh Mohammed Abdulla as 'Prime Minister' of the state was yet another blunder. The induction of Article 370 in our Constitution for J&K, though in a chapter of transitory provisions, was taken advantage of by separatist elements. Our short sighted Government, while talking of complete integration, provided sanction to an independent constitution, a different flag, and different citizenship and different nomenclatures for the 'Chief Minister' and the 'Governor' for this state. This double-speak soon backfired and the Sheikh had to be put behind bars; and then only could the Center appoint a Governor, give jurisdiction to the Supreme Court, the Election Commission and the Comptroller and Auditor General (C.A.G.). Whereas the need was progress towards more integration, it was again halted from 1975 when Sheikh Abdulla was again installed as Chief Minister under Indira Gandhi-Abdulla agreement. He pursued his anti-Hindu and anti-Bharat policies which his son, the present Chief Minister, Dr. Farooq Abdulla is assiduously carrying forward reducing the Kashmir valley practically devoid of Hindu population. The law for Resettlement of those who had opted for Pakistani citizenship is yet another dangerous move towards a marked demographic change'.
"About two lakh Hindu adults are voters for the Parliamentary elections but not for the State Assembly; the duration of the State Assembly is six years and not five as in other States, a discriminating law that makes a woman marrying a man outside the State of J&K, in other parts of the country, lose her right in her father's property and status of a state subject whereas a woman marrying a man hailing from Pakistan getting the right to make her husband its citizen, and harassment of Hindu citizens by asking them proof of their citizenship of the State while conferring it on the known foreign terrorists and settling them in and around Jammu speak volumes of sinister motives of the present National Conference Government, under Dr. Farooq Abdullah".
"However, the ABKM notes that there is a reassuring ray of hope also in the midst of this dismal situation. There are saner people in the state who do not want the cover of Article 370, who are against any sort of autonomy and who want full integration with Bharat. So there are two streams of thought and feeling in the State - one wanting complete integration and the other comprising of separatist and terrorist forces under different names and banners. In this context, the ABKM has taken into consideration the blatantly discriminatory attitude of the State Government, towards Jammu and Ladakh regions, and the consequent acute dissatisfaction among the people of Jammu and Ladakh regions, causing them to demand a separate statehood for Jammu and a Union Territory status for Ladakh".
"The report of the fact-finding three member committee appointed by the Sarkarvah of the RSS under the chairmanship of Justice (Retd.) Jitendra Veer Gupta has also corroborated the discrimination indulged in by the State Government".
"The ABKM, therefore, resolves as under
I) The people of Jammu think that the solution of their problems lies in the separate statehood for Jammu region. This has been demonstrated by the agitation spearheaded by the Jammu-Kashmir National Front and other organizations. The ABKM offers its support to their demand. To brand this demand for a separate statehood for Jammu region, which includes the Muslim majority districts of Poonch, Rajauri & Doda as communal, is either crass ignorance or motivated prejudice.
II) The ABKM supports the demand for UT status for Ladakh region.
III) ABKM offers all its support to the forces in the Kashmir Valley that are for full integration with Bharat.
IV) Further, the ABKM feels deeply concerned about the fate of Kashmiri Hindus who have been hounded out of their homes by the Jehadi Muslim elements. It is now more than a decade that they have been living as refugees in different parts of the country. The ABKM calls upon the Governments, both Central and State, to have a dialogue with these unfortunate people and find a way for their safe and secure rehabilitation in the Kashmir Valley which has been their home for thousands of years.
V) It is also very important that every precaution and arrangement should be taken to ensure free and fair elections in J & K, which are fast approaching. In view of the past experience the present N.C. Govt. can not generate confidence that it will help conduct free and fair elections.
The ABKM calls upon patriotic people from all over the country to wholeheartedly support these legitimate demands in the interest of national integrity and ensure that interests of people of J&K will be protected hereafter and cry a halt to the dangerous trend of separatism and terrorism overtaking the State. The Karyakari Mandal urges the swayamsevaks to support the forces of integration and defeat the machinations of anti-national forces".
All this shows that the RSS was convinced as early as in June 2002 that if the people of Jammu and Ladakh were to lead a dignified and secured life and exercise all the powers, terrorists were to be isolated, nationalist forces in the state to be strengthened and the area of strife limited to the Kashmir Valley, the state had to reorganized on regional basis. The situation as it exists today in the state is worse than what it was in June 2002.
It is intriguing that the RSS has changed its attitude towards the suffering people of Jammu and Ladakh at a time when their very identity is under threat. Former Political Advisor to the state BJP president Prof Hari Om was right when he on Friday asked the RSS to invoke its 2002 Kurukshetra resolution on Jammu & Kashmir trifurcation. What the RSS said more than 13 years ago is what the people of Jammu region and Ladakh believed in then and today. |
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