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| Time to trifurcate JK, bifurcate Valley: Civil society | | Ending unrest | | Early Times Report
jammu, Feb 17: The developments which have been unfolding in J&K at regular intervals have once again established that the state consists of three disparate regions of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh and that Jammu and Ladakh do not support the ongoing separatist movement in the Valley. It has become absolutely imperative to reorganize the state to restrict the area of contention and strife to the Valley and empower the people inhabiting other areas to shape and mould their destiny themselves within India and under the Indian Constitution. This has been the demand of the Panthers Party, Panun Kashmir and the entire civil society of Jammu and Ladakh as well as internally displaced Kashmiri Hindus. Leave aside a handful of Jammu-based Kashmiri agents.
Trifurcation of the State and bifurcation of Kashmir is a must to restrict the area of strife to the Kashmir Valley and enable the people of Jammu and Ladakh, and Kashmiri Hindus to shape and control fully their political and economic future within India and under the Indian Constitution, barring the separatist and regressive Article 370," they say. They assert that "four-way split of the State would puncture the ongoing secessionist and sectarian movement in the Valley, defeat the Pakistani evil designs and help New Delhi strengthen the nationalist constituency in this sensitive part of the country".
They further say that "division of the State has become all the more necessary considering the dangerous ganging up of all Kashmiri leaders against India and highly hostile attitude of Kashmiri leaders of all shades of opinion to even such petty demands as revival of Dogra certificate and withdrawal of the Jaziya tax that was imposed in September by the PDP-BJP government to reduce the number of pilgrims to the Holy Shrine of Mata Vaishno Devi".
"The nationalist and grossly ignored and politically marginalised people of Jammu region and Ladakh and the hounded-out Kashmiri Hindus do not want to have any kind of truck with the radicalised and pro-Pakistan Kashmiri leadership," they assert and express fear that "they would get entirely submerged under the rising tide of Kashmiri Muslim sub-nationalism and the country would suffer huge losses in case the State is maintained as a single political unit.
"The people of Jammu and Ladakh and Kashmiri Hindus cannot live under a system that has given veto power to the Kashmiri leadership to determine not only the fate of the State but also the fate of the non-Muslim minorities", they, in addition, say and add that the existing politico-constitutional, administrative and economic structure is highly unitary in character and it has only helped the insensitive Kashmiri leadership to establish its stranglehold over the state polity, economy and all nation-building departments, including universities. "The existing politico-constitutional set-up has turned out to be a boon for the separatist Kashmiri leadership and it has made the life of the very vast nationalist constituency in the State a veritable hell on earth," they, in fact, say. They also accuse that the political leadership in the region has never ever discharged its obligation towards the people of Jammu region in particular.
To make a case for the reorganization of the state, they argue that there is absolutely nothing that is common between Jammu and the Valley and between Kashmir and Ladakh in terms of history, culture, language, ethnicity, political perceptions and aspirations and assert that the people of these two regions have been longing for their complete merger with India and seeking the establishment of a system that makes them masters in their respective houses. Besides, they assert that they are vehemently opposed to the Kashmiri Muslims' demands ranging from self-rule to autonomy to independence to merger with Pakistan to India-Pakistan joint control over the State to soft borders to demilitarisation to Islamic banking and that their "watchword and battle-cry all along has been complete merger with India and application of Indian Constitution to the State in full". Contrarily, the Kashmiri leadership has always held the Indian Constitution responsible for the alienation of Kashmiri Muslims and stood for a regime outside the Indian constitutional and political structure, they assert.
The arguments advanced by the protagonists of the state's reorganization appear quite valid. Their rational suggestion, if appreciated and given an effect to, will surely go a long way in ending unrest in the state, harmonizing inter-regional relations and help India tackle Kashmiri separatists in an effective manner. |
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