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| No one speaks for oppressed Jammuites | | Kashmir, Kashmir and Kashmir | | ET Report
JAMMU, Jan 13: The oppressed and suppressed people of Jammu province are the most unfortunate segment of the Indian society, despite the fact that they constitute the nation's backbone in the separatist and militant-infested J&K and contribute more revenue to the State exchequer. There is none in New Delhi who is prepared to speak for them. They only talk Kashmir, Kashmir and Kashmir and the Kashmiri "alienation" and the Kashmiri constituency. Even the BJP, which won 25 seats from Jammu, hates to speak for the people of the region.
The worst part of the whole situation is that even the opinion makers speak only for Kashmir and Kashmiri alienation. The TV debates on the Government formation in New Delhi-based studios and those who took part in these debates are all biased.
Take, for example, the today's debate on Government formation in J&K organized by news channel India Today. The programme "To the point" was anchored by Karan Thapar and the three participants in the debate were former interlocutors for J&K Dilip Padgaonkar, former Chief Information Commissioner Wajahat Habibullah and former Vice-Chancellor of Islamic University, Kashmir, and former Maharaja Gulab Singh Chair Professor, Siddiq Wahid.
All the three spoke for Kashmir and the PDP. While Wahid urged the PDP to refrain from joining hands with the BJP, saying any such alliance would further erode the PDP's support-base in the Valley, Padgaonkar and Habibullah also talked about Kashmiri alienation and the PDP's core constituency in the Valley. Padgaonkar and Habibullah didn't oppose the talk of an alliance between the two. Their only suggestion was that the BJP must not create any problem for the PDP. "The PDP has to take care of its Kashmir constituency. The BJP needs to appreciate the PDP's compulsion. It must not rake up issues like Article 370. The BJP-led NDA Government must pump into Kashmir more funds so that the PDP could cater to the financial needs of the people of Kashmir," they said. There was only a passing reference to Jammu and Ladakh in the 30-minute-long debate.
Karan Thapar did talk about the Jammu and Ladakh factors to ascertain the views of his guests, but all the three participants ignored Jammu and Ladakh and focused only on Kashmir, PDP and its Kashmiri constituency, Pakistan and what not.
The point is that the Indian political class and bulk of opinion-makers and media consider Jammu and Ladakh irrelevant and describe Kashmir as the chief factor in the State's political situation. This approach didn't work in the past and it will not work today and tomorrow. What is needed is a holistic approach to the issues facing people inhabiting different regions of the State. To pursue the same old line would be only to create more problems in the State than resolving the existing ones. |
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