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| How Valley leaders push Jammu to the wall | | J&K State came into being in March 1846 | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 21: Pro-Pakistan Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani on Sunday declared that he will not allow division of J&K and it will remain a single geographical entity. "We will not allow division of J&K at any cost and nobody will be permitted to spread religious hatred in the region. Kashmir, Jammu and Ladakh is a single geographical entity and "nobody will be allowed to divide it on religious or regional lines, he said.
Geelani also batted for right to self-determination and Pakistan. "The Partition in 1947 happened 'on the basis of Two-Nation Theory'. J&K was although a Muslim-majority State and thus to be a natural part of Pakistan, but India sidelined all the moral principles and forcibly occupied this region with the help of its military might," he said.
His statement that Kashmir, Jammu and Ladakh is a single geographical entity was not based on facts. J&K State came into being only in March 1846 under the Treaty of Amritsar that was signed between Raja of Jammu, Gulab Singh, and the British India Indian Government. It was under this treaty that Kashmir became part of the Dogra Kingdom and not the vice-versa. As far Ladakh, it was also part of the Dogra Kingdom. It was made part of Kashmir region only after the State acceded to India in October 1947. Hence, to say that the State of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh was a single geographical entity will be only a travesty of truth or murder of history. It is also a fact that between 1846 and 1946, the Kashmiri leadership fought against the Dogra rule and demanded Kashmir's independence from Jammu terming the Dogra rule as alien and oppressive. They approached the British Government again and again to get Kashmir separated from Jammu Kingdom. They even asked the British Government to rule Kashmir. These are the hard facts and history is replete with them.
The truth is that Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh are three distinct historical regions and the marriage between them is unnatural. If Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh are to maintain their distinct identities, the State has to be divided. There is no other alternative available. If Geelani and others of his ilk believe that they would perpetuate the Kashmiri hegemony and domination over Jammu and Ladakh for an indefinite period, then, it is obvious, that they are living in a fool's paradise. The reorganization of the State on regional lines is only a matter of time; no one can keep this State of disparate regions intact for all the times to come.
As for the Geelani's perverse demand seeking right to self-determination and merger with Pakistan, less said the better. Suffice to say that India shall under no situation allow the State go out of it. Vajpayee had tried to compromise the Indian stand on J&K, but he failed under pressure from below. Manmohan Singh also tried his best to give an effect to the Vajpayee line, but he too failed for the same reason. Similarly, Prime Minister Narendra Modi would fail in case he tried to implement the Vajpayee line. The nation will decimate the BJP in case it tried to tinker with Indian sovereignty. In fact, the BJP is already losing its sheen and appeal because of its Pakistan and J&K policy. But more than that, there are people of Jammu and Ladakh who inhabit nearly 90 per cent of the State's land area. They will die but not allow the State's independence or merger with Pakistan. They fought several wars against the separatists and won all the battles and they are also ready to take on them once again. They are simply waiting for an opportunity and they will get it sooner than later. J&K is not Geelani's fiefdom; J&K is Indian and it shall ever remain so, no matter who rules from New Delhi and who is at the helm of affairs in J&K. |
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