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| 'PM alone can save crumbling PDP-BJP coalition' | | Ignoring Jammu to placate Valley | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Feb 20: Only Prime Minister Narendra Modi can save the crumbling PDP-BJP coalition. This is what most of the reports post-Mehbooba Mufti and Ram Madhav at Srinagar on Wednesday meeting have said.
The reports have been manifestly lop-sided - PDP and Kashmir-centric. Jammu and Ladakh hardly figured in any of the reports, which were based either on sources close to PDP president or on what BJP national general secretary Ram Madhav said at New Delhi on Thursday, a day after he held discussions with Mehbooba Mufti on Government formation.
That Jammu and Ladakh will be conspicuous by their absence from these reports, mostly from Srinagar and New Delhi, was not altogether unexpected. After all, it had consistently happened after October 1947, when J&K acceded to India and Jammu and Ladakh lost their independence. Such has been the influence of Kashmiri leaders on New Delhi, policy-planners, commentators and the so-called conflict-managers and trouble-shooters.
On Thursday, an opinion-maker came out with a suggestion which said that it was time for Prime Minister Modi to own Kashmir so that the political issue of Kashmir was resolved and peace restored in South Asia. He virtually described Jammu and Kashmir an independent political entity in South Asia.
"If the Prime Minister could show his statesmanship with the neighbouring country (Pakistan), Jammu and Kashmir is part of India so there should be greater investment in trust, economics and politics so that the things could move forward not just for the formation of the Government, but for a sustainable positive and peaceful and stable landscape in future" (read resolution of the Kashmir issue as per the aspirations of Kashmiri leadership), he said. Prime Minister Modi had surprised the world and disturbed and shocked the very vast nationalist constituency across the nation by suddenly visiting Pakistan on December 25 to meet with his Pakistani counterpart Mian Nawaz Sharif. Pakistan hailed PM Modi and his gesture.
This opinion-maker also said that the agenda of alliance was "realistic", that the ball is in the Prime Minister's court and that it would be an act of statesmanship if the Prime Minister held a categorical commitment that the agenda of alliance shall be implemented in letter and spirit and in a definite time frame.
"Modi has to invoke his own commitments and conviction with regard to Kashmir. He alone can deliver on the promises made in the Agenda of the Alliance, which is realistic, if there is a sincerity of purpose in implementing it in the timeframe. The document in reference to Jammu and Kashmir, the most sensitive State in the country, cannot be kept hanging for infinity," he said.
The comment that the agenda of alliance was "realistic" indicated the direction in which the pro-PDP camp among the Indian opinion-makers wants Jammu and Kashmir to move towards. It also indicated an indifferent attitude towards Jammu and Ladakh, as also the unwillingness to appreciate the apprehensions of the nationalists in Jammu and Kashmir. The nationalists and integrations in Jammu and Kashmir dismiss with contempt the agenda of alliance as a highly "dangerous" document, describe it as a sell-out and say that it was nothing but a document adopted to further drive the State away from India and endanger the non-Muslim minorities in the State.
It is unfortunate that we have in the country elements who have no place in their scheme of things for the long-suffering people of Jammu and Ladakh and who virtually humiliate them by siding with the most prosperous Kashmiri people, who have been ruling the roost since 1947 and, at the same time, working overtime to segregate the whole of the State from India under one pretext or another.
They are committing a mistake by ignoring Jammu and Ladakh, which are the two of the three most important factors in the State's situation. These cannot be ignored. Nor can their aspirations be ignored. Any attempt on the part of any authority at any time will prove counter-productive. For, the people of these two regions are as they are and they have fought splendidly in the past at regular intervals to defeat the Kashmiri evil game plans as well as those who side with the anti-Jammu and anti-Ladakh forces in Kashmir. |
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