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| Abdullah, Mir, Tarigami say J&K withering away | | Maintaining Kashmiri hegemony | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Oct 28: Not one but three Kashmiri leaders have upped the ante against the PDP-BJP coalition Government and accused it of pursuing policies which have the potential of pitting one region against the other and setting the followers of one religion against the followers of another. The leaders who have during the past couple of days expressed the view that the State would wither away if the current dispensation continued to function in the manner it functioned after assuming power include NC president and former J&K Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah, JKPCC chief Ghulam Ahmad Mir and CPI-M State secretary Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami.
Farooq Abdullah told a leading journalist in Delhi that the situation in J&K "is very dangerous" and that if remedial measures were not taken at the earliest, there was the possibility of the Valley, Jammu and Leh going their own way. "The present communal tension is threatening the existence of the State…I am afraid of another thing, the breaking of the State of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, Jammu going one way, Leh going other and the Valley going other way. This is more dangerous also. People (politicians) are not waking up to the dangers that are in front of us," Farooq told Karan Thapar of India Today on October 25.
Abdullah also put forth a solution and his solution was India must start meaningful dialogue with Pakistan to settle the Kashmir issue. He was highly critical of the PDP-BJP coalition Government and the BJP-led NDA Government at the Centre. His concrete suggestion was that PM Modi should follow the Vajpayee policy on Pakistan and J&K. He, in effect, vouched for Musharraf's formula.
On Monday, two Kashmiri leaders - Ghulam Ahmad Mir and Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami - also launched a scathing attack on the PDP-BJP coalition Government and expressed the view that the State would wither away sooner than later. "The PDP-BJP coalition has brought the State on the verge of disintegration due to its wrong policies," said Mir while addressing a gathering at Partap Park, Srinagar.
"There are certain forces and factors in the State vitiating atmosphere of peace by communalizing the situation. The people must remain vigilant and defeat the designs of unscrupulous and disgruntled elements hell bent upon to harm the communal harmony and age-old tradition of unity and brotherhood in the State," he further said, adding that the PDP- BJP coalition was exploiting people on various issues. "Had there been a proper mechanism with PDP- BJP Coalition, the situation would not have taken an ugly shape on various occasions," he maintained. The same day, however, he hurt the sentiments of the nationalists in the State by opposing those who celebrated the Accession day in Jammu. In a way, he made common cause with the Kashmiri separatists, who observe October 27 every year as black day. It was on October 27, 1947 that the Indian troops landed in Kashmir to repulse the Pakistani attack on the State. Like Farooq Abdullah and Mir, Tarigami, too, trained his guns at the PDP-BJP coalition Government and demanded stringent action against those (in Jammu and Ladakh) who were working against the unity and integrity of the State. He attacked the PDP, the BJP and its mentor RSS. Accusing the RSS and BJP of "promoting a design to trifurcate State on communal lines," Tarigami said the RSS's project was not only to damage the State but also to destroy the very idea of India". "We all know that it has been their (RSS) dream to divide the State on the basis of religion, region and language," said Tarigami.
"The present coalition has 'miserably failed to stop this polarization'. The present Government was expected to deliver but unfortunately they are encouraging the atmosphere of drift and intolerance in the State. Efforts are being made to bring different communities at loggerheads," Tarigami said while tearing into the Mufti-led coalition Government.
"The election results in Ladakh are not surprising. They (RSS-BJP combine) have again promised the union territory status there. This is not a coincidence. Despite the fact that CM Mufti Sayeed had been saying that the coalition is a historic opportunity for reconciliation between two communities and two regions, the record is quite opposite…Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh have been gifted with certain amount of diversity. We have different geographical, cultural, ethic, and religious units. These are all assets. These assets are under attack," Tarigami said, adding that "if people don't understand this plan and want a separate region, it will result in communalization".
"If that happens, it will mean permanent division. One village against another, one section of people against another. Will that help us? I am of firm belief as a student of politics that this division is aimed at polarization, communalization of the State…And what now? RSS is in command. It's not a cultural organization. It's in command of the Indian Government. It's leading them today. They have to be stopped at any cost from dismembering our State," he also added. He declared that he would not allow the State to disintegrate.
The approach of Farooq Abdullah, Ghulam Ahmad Mir and Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami was simply Kashmir-centric and communal and it only indicated the level of their frustration. None of them talked about the aspirations of the people of Jammu and Ladakh. Nor did any of these Kashmiri leaders speak a word of praise for Maharaja Hari Singh who merged J&K with India to enable the people of the State to become part of democratic country. They only emphasized the need to maintain the unity of the State so that Kashmiri hegemony and domination over the State's polity was further perpetuated and the people of Jammu and Ladakh continued to suffer like before. They, like Pakistan and Kashmiri separatists, are mortally afraid of the idea of Jammu and Ladakh getting separated from Kashmir and the reason is that the Valley and its people would turn pauper the day the State was trifurcated and Pakistan would fail to establish its control over the precious Chenab waters.
By saying what these three Kashmiri leaders said, they only exposed themselves and their parties and vindicated those in Jammu and Ladakh who term these parties as undesirable, communal, Kashmir-centric and even separatist friendly. There statements are obviously forcing the people of Jammu and Ladakh to further distance themselves from Kashmir and the Kashmiri leadership. |
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