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| Aspirations of Jammu, Ladakh again ignored | | JNU seminar | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Jul 30: Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi on Friday saw many RSS-BJP men gathering there to discuss the prevailing situation in Kashmir. Actually, the RSS-BJP sponsored a symposium and the theme was "Peace, People and Possibilities in Kashmir". The symposium was inaugurated by Minister of State for Foreign Affairs VK Singh and prominent among others who spoke included RSS leader Indresh Kumar, who only recently on behalf of the RSS hosted an Iftar party with the premises of Parliament.
The very selection of the theme was intriguing and revealing. Intriguing because Jammu and Ladakh - the state's two major regions - had no place in the scheme of things of those who organized the symposium. Revealing in the sense that the organizers made their intentions clear that there approach towards Kashmir and Kashmiri Muslims was no different from that of the Congress and other "secular parties and that they considered Kashmir and Kashmiri Muslims the only factors in the state. Inaugurating the symposium, VK Singh, inter-alia, said: "We will need to sit with people and talk to them. We need to give them opportunities to attain growth. If there is no trade in Kashmir, what an educated person will do? So, all these issues are related to development…A lot of fund was made available for developmental works in the region in the past, but it was not used for the purpose. So, if people there are angry, it is because there is no development. You go to any part of rest of the country, people will be angry if funds are not used for development. So, there is no difference between people in Kashmir and those from other parts". Indresh Kumar who spoke for the so-called nationalist, cultural and pro-Hindu RSS, spoke the same language and said the "the RSS was committed for ensuring peace, development and brotherhood in Kashmir". What Kumar said indicated two things.
One, the RSS is more a political outfit than a cultural organization. Two, it, like the BJP, has completely forgotten Jammu and Ladakh and internally displaced Kashmiri Hindus. Yes, there were a couple of ministers from Jammu and some Kashmiri Hindus in the symposium, but they were they who either represented themselves or the RSS-BJP viewpoint, which is ultra pro-Kashmir. So, what transpired during the symposium could be considered a warning signal for Jammu, Ladakh and Kashmiri Hindus. The idea of dialogue with Kashmiri people must make them believe that the RSS-BJP combine may compromise the Indian stand on Kashmir and hand over the minorities to those who expelled the Kashmiri Hindus from Kashmir in January 1990 and this very month. |
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