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| 'Divide J&K before demanding semi-independence' | | Farooq can't dictate terms to Jammu | | Early Times Report
jammu, May 10: Jobless Farooq Abdullah of the defeated NC has unleashed a no-holds-barred campaign against all the Indian laws, saying grant of greater autonomy or semi-independence to J&K on the ground of religion is the only lasting solution to the so-called political problem. "Giving autonomy to both parts of the divided J&K is the only way to resolve the Kashmir dispute," he has been saying and urging in and outside the state. He made this ridiculous statement at Budhal (Rajouri) while interacting with handful of party workers.
Farooq Abdullah has forgotten his father Sheikh Abdullah and Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru who had hatched a conspiracy against India by not allowing the victorious and advancing Indian Army to evict the Pakistani intruders from PoJK and Gilgit-Baltistan. He has also forgotten that Nehru at the behest of Sheikh Abdullah allowed Pakistan to perpetuate its aggression on these J&K territories so that Kashmiri Muslim leadership could rule the state for an indefinite period. He has also forgotten that those who inhabit PoJK and Gilgit-Baltistan are, like the people of Jammu and Ladakh, not ethnically Kashmiri and that there is historical antagonism between them and the Kashmiri Muslim leadership.
Farooq Abdullah, or for that matter any other Kashmiri leader, can't impose their sinister will on the unwilling people of Jammu province and Ladakh whose concept of and on India is completely different from that of Kashmiri leaders, separatists also included. They were, and are, ardent believers in the concept of national unity and they are also for the application of the Indian Constitution to the state in full, barring its Articles 370 and 35-A. They say, and rightly, that these nasty Articles consider the people of Kashmir a race apart, promote communalism and separatism, establish Kashmir's communal hegemony on the entire state, give the international community to understand that J&K is not an integral part of India like other states of the Union and provide for a regime that oppresses and suppresses the minorities and bars all the rest of the Indians from exercising those rights which are available to Kashmiri Muslims across the country.
And by the way who does Farooq Abdullah represent? Farooq Abdullah, who was rejected by the people of Srinagar during the last Lok Sabha election and whose party suffered the worst-ever defeat in the last assembly election, doesn't represent the general will in the state. He, like other Kashmiri leaders, represent only communal constituency in the Valley and have no say whatsoever in Jammu and Ladakh regions except in a couple of pockets.
Jinnah in Farooq Abdullah must remember that the people of Jammu and Ladakh have not only decimated his party in 2014 but also Kashmiri parties like the PDP, thus establishing once and for all that these parties have no place in their political scheme of things and that they will not compromise their stand on India and Indian Constitution come what may.
They had voted for the BJP en-block hoping that the BJP will defeat the Kashmiri politics and hasten the process of the state's integration into India, which didn't happen. The BJP instead of honouring its commitments has made common cause with those in Kashmir who hate India and Indian Constitution and work for Pakistan and J&K's separation from India. That's the reason the BJP leadership has become thoroughly unpopular not only in Jammu but also elsewhere in the country. If the people of Jammu province can't forgive the BJP's acts of treachery, how can they go near the NC or parties like the NC, including the Congress?
Farooq Abdullah says that the negative attitude of the Government of India to the autonomy demand would complicate things in the state. He is right to an extent. Any move on the part of New Delhi to concede the NC's demand for autonomy or any move on its part to consider the self-rule divisive doctrine would surely complicate matters in the state in the sense that there would be revolts in Jammu Ladakh and refugee camps housing the internally-displaced Kashmiri Hindus.
Farooq Abdullah and others of his ilk would well to join hands with those in Jammu and Ladakh who vouch for the state's trifurcation or reorganization on a regional basis before making such ridiculous demands. Even otherwise, they have no other option left. For, the people of Jammu and Ladakh will not allow any Kashmiri Muslim leader to impose his/her sinister will on them and this is what the political history of Jammu and Ladakh post 1947 unambiguously suggests. |
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