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| Bhim's twin-State suggestion highly laudable | | Ending discrimination with Jammu | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Jan 20: JKNPP chief patron Bhim Singh has yet again reiterated that creation of Jammu State and Kashmir Valley State was the only way out to end discrimination, chaos and regional imbalance. "Time has come when J&K should be reorganized by establishing Kashmir Ghati State and Jammu State. The Treaty of Amritsar is no longer relevant after J&K merged with the Union of India by the signatures of the then Maharaja of J&K, Hari Singh in 1947. Ladakh region which was annexed under the leadership of General Zorawar Singh in 1842 and affiliated with Jammu Pradesh should be given a choice between Kashmir Ghati State and Jammu State. The Ladakhis if choose to be adopted as Union Territory, their choice should be respected. Gilgit and Baltistan which link close to Ladakh shall be declared as part and parcel of Ladakh region after the liberation of Gilgit-Baltistan," he has said in a statement from New Delhi.
Bhim Singh also announced that a convention shall soon be held in February where the twin-State solution will be threadbare discussed. "The participation of the social and political representatives from all regions will give a scientific and concrete shape to this proposition," he has also said, adding that the two States shall continue as "twin States" with separate provincial Governments but with one High Court and one Governor. He also announced that he would constitute a committee of social and political representatives irrespective of their political affiliations "to mobilize the people's opinion in support of reorganization of J&K".
It is not the first occasion when Bhim Singh came out with such a suggestion. He and his party had a number of times in the past demanded reorganization of the State saying the existing 68-year-old politico-constitutional and financial structure had failed to produce the desired results and that the people of Jammu province would continue to suffer unless this unitary structure was reformed and federalized to accommodate their social, economic and political aspirations.
And what Bhim Singh and his Panthers Party had been saying was the general view in Jammu province. There is consensus in Jammu province that reorganization of the State is the only alternative available to end discrimination with the people of Jammu province and avert the possibility of Jammu province witnessing the Kashmir-like situation - situation that forced the Kashmiri Hindus to quite the Valley in early 1990 to become refugees in their own motherland. Even the RSS and the BJP had endorsed the idea of the State's reorganization. In fact, while the RSS adopted resolution on separate Jammu State at Kurukshetra in 2002, the BJP at least thrice adopted resolutions on the State's reorganization.
"If Jammu province is not separated from Kashmir, the former would surely witness the Kashmir-like situation. To avert this impending disaster separation of Jammu province from the militant and separatist-infested Kashmir is imperative. There is nothing that is common between the people of Kashmir and their leadership and the people of Jammu and Ladakh. The Kashmiri leadership wants independence or semi-independence from India and it also wants to de-link the erstwhile Doda district and parts of Poonch-Rajouri belt from Jammu to set up Greater Muslim Kashmir. The people of Jammu province, barring a few agents of Kashmiri leadership, want their complete merger with India. They long for a regime that is of them, by them and for them within the Indian Constitution, minus Article 370 and Article 35-A," this is the general view in Jammu province. Hold a referendum in Jammu province and you will see for yourself that an overwhelming majority will vote against politics, Kashmiri-style, and vote for the Indian Constitution and separation from Kashmir.
It is a different story that the political class in Jammu has failed Jammu to remain on the right side of Kashmiri leadership, which gets unstinted support from all the important political players in Delhi. That's the reason all the movements which the nation witnessed in Jammu province after 1947 were all engineered by the common masses and civil society groups.
The situation as it exists today in the State is highly alarming and frightening. Indeed, the people of Jammu province are in grave danger. The suggestion of Bhim Singh and his ilk needs to be viewed in this context. |
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