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| Does Shankaracharya know what he says? | | Plebiscite | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Aug 31: As if Geelanis and Omar Abdullah in Kashmir were not enough to preach sedition against India and denounce the Indian Constitutions, some Hindu religious leaders have also jumped into the arena and started demanding plebiscite in this and other part of J&K, saying the Kashmir must be resolved and the holding plebiscite could be one solution.
Separatists and semi-separatists have easy access to some Hindu religious leaders and they have influenced their whole thought process or perhaps these Hindu religious leaders are the ones who subscribe to the Congress's ideology that treats Kashmiri Muslims a race apart and the non-Muslim minorities in the state just irrelevant or the Kashmiri Muslims' slaves.
Only the other day, father of the killed Hizb commander Burhan Wani was found hobnobbing with Sri Sri Ravishankar - hobnobbing that made the nation question the very credentials of Sri Sri. Sri Sri had been meeting separatists like Geelani at regular intervals.
Similarly, the other day, Goverdhan Peethadhishwar Shankaracharya Adhokshjanand Devtirth pitched for "plebiscite" on both sides of Jammu & Kashmir for a "permanent solution" to the problem.
"A plebiscite, under the supervision of United Nations representatives and guarded by the forces of the United Nations, should be held on both sides of Kashmir," he said while talking to reporters in his Ashram at Mathura (UP).
He said while "referendum is a time consuming process", there should be a dialogue even with separatists to "douse the present crisis".
Does Shankracharya know what he says? He should know J&K is an integral part of India and the Indian Constitution doesn't allow secession of any part of the country on whatever ground. But more than that, he should know that India has already witnessed one partition in 1947 on communal ground and that it can't afford another. If it happens, India would wither away.
He should also know that there are two other regions in the state, called Jammu and Ladakh, which house integrationists and not separatists. They are no less than six million - just 10 per cent less than the followers of the other faith.
If at all a plebiscite is to be held to determine the political status of J&K vis-à-vis India, it has to be nation-wide, and not region-wide or district-wide or province-wide. Nation is the only stakeholder in the state. As for the people, they are stakeholders as far as matters of governance are concerned. |
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