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| 'Shifting NIT out of Kashmir must for protecting academic interests of non-local students' | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Apr 29: The history of Kashmir post-1987 is one of anti-India struggle, as also one of a movement that was directed against those called minority in the state and those termed as a majority in rest of the country.
Similarly, the history of the Union Government and the J&K Government has not been inspiring. The J&K state in general and Kashmir Valley in particular was gripped by secessionist and communal violence with Pakistan-sponsored terrorists and mercenaries playing the major role.
The secessionists and communalists, who hated India from the core of their heart, aided, abetted and funded by Pakistan, didn't miss any opportunity to target the soft targets and dot the state's political scene with acts of barbarities and brutalities to frighten the minorities. They targeted the minorities, as they considered them fifth columnists or agents representing India in Kashmir.
It is not a secret that their whole objective was to convert the Valley into a one particular community region and they achieved their objective in January 1990 by creating a situation that forced the hapless, abandoned and miniscule minority of Kashmiri Hindus and Sikhs, and even many Muslims to quit their homes and hearths to escape their physical annihilation and save their honour and dignity.
The forced exodus of these sections of society in January 1990 is a classical example of the utter failure of a sovereign and independent nation to protect the minorities against exclusion by the majority community as well as migration from their own homeland in their own country.
And what has been happening at NIT Srinagar since March 31 is nothing but a manifestation of the same weak policies which had left the minorities, especially the Kashmiri Hindus and Sikhs, to quit the Valley in 1990 to not only save their religion, culture, dignity and lives but also to identify them with the nation. And what has been happening there has never happened in any self-respecting country of the world.
It would not be an exaggeration if one may says so that the Indian state is at war with itself with the nationalists in Kashmir having left with no other option but not to show their faces and not to disclose their identity.
It is a horrible scene by any yardstick. It was not for this that the Indians made supreme sacrifices to achieve political redemption; it was not for this that the Indians elected governments in the states like J&K and at the centre.
The demand of the non-local students to shift the NIT from Srinagar to Jammu or elsewhere in the country needs to be viewed in this context.
This is the only option left to save their academic career. To force them to go back to NIT Srinagar would be only to endanger their life.
This was the general view of the NIT students and their parents this correspondent met today at the J&K High Court Complex, Jammu, who had assembled there to know the fate of the PIL, which was filed by the Convener of Jammu For India (JFI), Prof Hari Om, almost two weeks ago. |
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